Word: hud
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David Caprara, a challenger candidate for Virginia State Representative, is a former HUD operative and protege of Jack Kemp. He currently runs a business associated with Kemp's political mouthpiece, Empower America. Caprara lacks the charisma of a politician; he's a poor speaker and decidedly untelegenic. Yet he met with an outpouring of support--at least from the small community he got to know while he worked at HUD...
...Kemp's HUD agenda (and by extension, Caprara's) was complicated and multifaceted--it consisted of a lot of clean-up and a bit of innovation. His most visible legacy was the problematic "Empowerment Zones" program, which proposed tax breaks and other incentives for businesses that entered specially targeted low-income areas...
Director of the R.F.K. Memorial Center for Human Rights/Assistant Secretary at HUD; not much fun but great last names...
Republican leaders like Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett and Jeanne Kirkpatrick are beginning to get the picture. Their organization, Empower America, picks up where Kemp's verging-on-visionary HUD left off, devising free enterprise solutions to social dilemmas. Ventures like, that will do far more for the Republican Party than RNC chair Haley Barbour's Perot-modeled National Policy Forums. Activist conservatism is the future of the party...
...need to be with John Paul, Cisneros, 46, has had to reorder his life. He ended discussions of his possibly being appointed to Lloyd Bentsen's seat in the U.S. Senate because the Texas-Washington commute would have taken up too much of his time. Cisneros accepted the hud job partly because it offered the chance to stay put with...