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Battling again for the seat she tried to win in 1994, Hirning may benefit this time around from the lost luster of the Republican revolution--and California's recovering economy. She cites 25 years' experience in business and hospital administration as reasons for her political and fiscal pragmatism: balanced budgets but not at the expense of health care and education; rein in government regulation, but "without throwing regulations out the window...
...quest to make principle, not partisanship, the basis for political behavior. Those principles, he believes, dictate the need for a flat tax ("a type of wealth tax parallel to the property tax") and abolishing the deficit ("the unfair shifting to future generations the obligation to pay for programs that benefit current citizens"). A 59% Democratic registration in the Fifth makes it unlikely that this third time will be the charm for Dinsmore...
After two unsuccessful runs at this seat, Coyne may be ready for a place in Congress. Not only does he benefit from having a now familiar face, but with parts of the 19th District suffering from industry shutdowns, voters may be ready for the Democratic alternative. His economic plans include finding more money for public education and economic incentives to diversify the industrial base...
...Strickland finally won in 1992--only to be unseated by Frank Cremeans in 1994. An unabashed liberal, Strickland advocates more spending on highways, education and programs for preventing drug and alcohol abuse, school dropouts and teenage pregnancy. Because his Sixth District is both working-class and poor, he may benefit by this year's apparent anti-Republican mood...
Again defending his seat against Bill Choby, the 11-term Murtha could revive an old campaign slogan for this race: "John P. Murtha...the P is for Power." A ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, he has a reputation for using influence to benefit his district; to wit, when the 12th suffered major flood damage this year, Murtha helped four counties get federal disaster-relief assistance...