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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...
...Preacher: Jack Kemp showed his independence when he opposed the anti- immigrant Proposition 187 in California, which Wilson used successfully as the centerpiece of his campaign. If that doesn't set him apart, consider Kemp's opposition to the "Contract with America" call for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Kemp still believes in the supply-side notion that only a rising economy can produce real growth and balance the nation's books at the same time...