Word: kemp
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...Weld said he can handle a presidential campaign's fundraising pressures, the burden Jack Kemp cited in foregoing a run at the nation's highest office...
Former HUD secretary Jack Kemp will not seek theGOP nomination for president in 1996, Republican Party sources said today. Kemp, once a darling of the far right, reportedly told associates he could not mount a viable campaign at a time when he is out of step with the Party's increasingly aggressive agenda: He opposes term limits, favors tax cuts instead of a balanced-budget amendment and, unlike the vast majority of GOP members, backs federal incentives to combat urban poverty...
...Clinton today pledged up to $3.5 billion in HUD grants and tax breaks to 106 economically-distressed communities. The biggest winners are three cities and six rural areas designated as "empowerment zones," a scheme designed to lure business to depressed areas first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses, while the rural zones -- Kentucky Highlands, Mid-Delta in Mississippi, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley -- should get $40 million apiece. In addition...
...Ross Perot, then a 44-year-old founder of a computer-software company, would win 19% of the vote as a third-party candidate in the 1992 election? George Bush-nemesis Pat Buchanan, a 35-year-old Nixon aide, made the 1974 list, as did presidential aspirants Jack Kemp, then 38 and a two-term Congressman, and Joseph Biden, at 31, the Senate's youngest member. As for perennial presidential almost-aspirant William Bradley, who in '74 was 30 years old and still a Knick, we wrote that he "was laying the groundwork for a possible congressional...
...Party in Power, for all its claims to a mandate, could not offer more than facile answers to problems it can barely comprehend, let alone solve. With the exception of a few of its members (notably Jack Kemp), Republicans have a leadership devoid of compassion, only passably human -- a leadership that remains completely disconnected from every American experience except the most suburban, the most comfortable, the most homogenous...