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...former Ambassador to Romania, is the first Republican to win the Second District this century. Like Helms, Funderburk thinks food stamps are wasteful--as is aid to countries that are not our friends. Democrats determined to get their seat back hope that the 1995 flap over an auto accident--the Congressman pleaded no contest to running a truck off the road--will derail...
Earlier this year Davis and his wife lost their only son tragically in an auto accident, but the candidate remained in the race. A Vietnam vet, in a district that's home to Offutt Air Force Base, he campaigns with the slogan "Helping Those Who Have Helped America." But the Second is an unpredictable district--once Democratic, now Republican--and Davis has a platform that seems to straddle the ideological fence: he wants less government and supports the death penalty, but would preserve Medicare funds and student loans...
BORN: Jan. 2, 1940, Silver Creek EDUCATION: Erie County Technical Institute, A.A., 1959; State U of New York at Buffalo, B.S., 1975 FAMILY: Wife, Susan; three children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Labor-union regional director; auto worker POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 4455 Transit Road, Third Floor, Williamsville...
...Phelan 92371. Tel.: 619-244-9007 A part-time farmer who raises Galloway cattle and alpine goats on a 10-acre plot in Phelan, Conaway is an outspoken advocate for workers' pensions and Medicare, racking up endorsements from the Committee on Political Education, California Federation of Teachers and United Auto Workers in his improbable mission to unseat nine-term incumbent Jerry Lewis...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I have absolutely no apologies for taking contributions from working people, whether they're auto workers or pipe fitters...