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...Indian-earmarked money flows, Congress has attempted to funnel more money directly through it to the tribes. This year, however, fueled partly by Republican budget-cutting fervor and partly by what some call a longstanding antipathy toward tribal rights on the part of a powerful Senator, Washington's Slade Gorton, it ripped up the playbook. "We've never seen cuts like these," says Christopher Stearns, Democratic counsel to the House Subcommittee on Native American Affairs, which allocates money to tribes...
Defenders of the cuts argue, with some passion, that under Congress's new balanced-budget dispensation, all of government must become smaller, and Native Americans must sacrifice like other Americans. Says Senator Gorton, who as chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee overseeing Interior Department funding wrote some of the most drastic legislation: "To give more to the BIA would, bluntly, have required us to give less to the national parks and cultural institutions which are our national heritage for everyone." This he refuses...
...strong runner-up has emerged. California Governor Pete Wilson remained sidelined last week after the removal of a benign nodule from his right vocal cord and missed his staff's planned deadline to enter the race officially by Memorial Day. There is also internal strife: top Wilson aide George Gorton went on "vacation" after Wilson tapped former Bush aide Craig Fuller to run the campaign. Phil Gramm of Texas, still smarting from the disclosure of his R-rated movie endeavor in 1974, has watched his approval ratings stay flat even as he becomes better known. Meanwhile, former Tennessee Governor Lamar...
...bills dismantling protection of air and water simply right-wing truculence? If not, are they badly aimed populism? The answer is not deeply buried: corporate America, generous with PAC contributions, is the clear and highly appreciative beneficiary. One spitball of a bill, written for Republican Congressman Slade Gorton of Washington by lawyers for logging, mining, grazing and utility corporations, would junk large sections of the Endangered Species Act. Gorton told the New York Times that he did not consult environmentalists about the bill because "I already know what their views...
...election victory over Brown was a stunning display of a Wilson forte: big-bucks, no-frills, keep-it-simple campaigning. His campaign team of longtime loyalists is led by strategist George Gorton, a onetime youth activist for Nixon with a talent for framing issues and a fondness for Eastern spirituality. The machine is so well oiled that its media desk in Sacramento was able to monitor and systematically infiltrate call-in talk shows. "I have absolute respect for the Wilson team," groans Democratic strategist Darry Sragow. "I've lost to them three times...