Word: gramm
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...nonetheless represented a district peopled mostly by conservative Democrats who favor gun rights and deregulation. "I always admired Harry S. Truman," Synar told the Associated Press in 1994. "He fought special interests, and he told it like it was." So did Synar, generally. He railed against the widely popular Gramm-Rudman law designed to prevent deficit spending during the 1980s. President Clinton today paid tribute to Synar, calling him "a brave and unflinching public servant who in tough political times remained true to his principles." Those principles ultimately proved too liberal for Synar's constituents. Synar lost the 1994 primary...
...going to beat Bill Clinton by being moderate." --Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), responding to a question at the debate between GOP presidential candidates in Columbia, S. C., was quoted in the Boston Globe...
Forbes is pushing a pure flat tax, with a rate of 17% and the elimination of all deductions, but that is proving too severe for most of the rest of the field. G.O.P. candidates Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan back the general idea but say the mortgage-interest and charitable-donation deductions are too popular to end. Dole and Lamar Alexander have been cagier about how flat and how free of exceptions their plans would be. Forbes sneers at his rivals, "They are responding to a poll rather than to conviction." But their views show a respect for recent history...
...Gramm is hedging his bets, which may prove to be a fatal mistake. Rather than concentrate solely on Iowa, he is campaigning hard in several other early but lightly contested elections in the hope of stockpiling delegates elsewhere. The strategy has a price: Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Dole backer, has criticized Gramm for campaigning in Louisiana, which plans to steal the limelight from Iowa by holding caucuses a week earlier, on Feb. 6. Gramm recently spent a weekend in Alaska, where he courted voters by himself...
...Gramm's biggest problem in Iowa is Forbes, whose smiling visage and upbeat message of tax cuts and prosperity are an appealing contrast to the scowling Texan. The publishing tycoon is also a one-man Iowa economic boom. He has lavished $1.1 million to spread his message, more than double the combined media expenditures of his rivals. A few weeks ago, neither the Gramm nor Dole camps believed Forbes could turn out significant numbers of supporters at the time-consuming caucuses. Now they are not so sure. As Pat Buchanan told TIME, "[Forbes] is softening up Dole, he's draining...