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Gutknecht has had to dodge a fusillade of negative ads in this campaign--not from challenger Mary Rieder but from the AFL-CIO, which targeted him as part of a $35 million effort to unseat G.O.P. freshmen nationwide. Still, Gutknecht says Medicare is growing too fast and favors proposals to slow spending on it. He has also vowed to take no more than a third of his funding from PACs...
Pordum scored a coup in May when he won the endorsement of the AFL-CIO, which supported opponent Jack Quinn in 1994. This endorsement has meant funding and volunteers in what is always a daunting process: unseating an incumbent. Democratic big guns like Dick Gephardt and party celebrities like Patrick Kennedy have made appearances on Pordum's behalf. In this heavily Democratic district, the former teacher gives the party a real opportunity...
...surprise when Quinn won a House seat in this Democratic district in 1992 and when, in 1994, he got an endorsement from the normally Democratic AFL-CIO. But this year, despite his support for the minimum-wage hike and opposition to NAFTA, labor is backing opponent Francis Pordum. Still, Quinn won $40 million for the Buffalo waterfront this year, a surefire election plum, and has sponsored legislation to create a clear federal snow-emergency plan, a hot issue in the land of the "lake effect...
...into office as a '60s radical and, after 26 years in the House, has become an Establishment defender of minority causes. His constituents seem to have mellowed only slightly in that time. And Dellums, with a perfect 100 rating from both the liberal Americans for Democratic Action and the AFL-CIO, has not let them down...
...distinguished freshman-year record may not be enough to get English re-elected. In a blue-collar district that is predictably neither Democratic nor Republican, he fights resistance from the Democratic National Committee and the AFL-CIO for his support of the Contract with America and the G.O.P. plan to reform Medicare. He needs to persuade voters that his loyalty to them outweighs his devotion to a Republican fiscal agenda...