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...Brooks' last grab for a slab of bacon proved too much for his sated constituency. After he managed to get $10 million for the Jack Brooks Criminal Justice Center at Brooks' alma mater Lamar College slipped into the crime bill, voters saw pork for the bad financial bargain it is -- two dollars in federal taxes for every one that might come back to the district in the form of pork. Stockman, who had been trounced by Brooks in 1992, saw his chance and tried again. Some Republicans in Texas ignored him as a wild man. (Stockman unfurled posters that said...
...Lamar Alexander is another can-do centrist. A pro-choicer, he had a good record as Tennessee's Governor and a better one as George Bush's Education Secretary. He quietly won support during the 1994 season, but his ability to raise serious money remains questionable. His message too is problematic. Sending power and responsibility back to the states is politically attractive, but if Congress shows it can produce, Dole will have the better of the argument. A new entrant, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, will visit Iowa and New Hampshire this week. Specter too is pro-choice, but his intense...
Past speakers at the Kennedy School conference have included President Neil L. Rudenstine, Weiner Professor of Public Policy David A. Ellwood, President of the Children's Defense Fund Marian W. Edelman and former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander
...opportunities attract big names. The list of would-bes, maybes and wannabes already includes former Vice President Dan Quayle, Senators Gramm and Bob Dole, ex-Cabinet members Jack Kemp, Dick Cheney, Jim Baker and Lamar Alexander and Governors Pete Wilson of California and William Weld of Massachusetts. (And maybe Pat Buchanan, the two-fisted talking head, but he's given little chance to last beyond the first primary.) Though the real campaign season won't begin until later, some of the big names were on display last weekend for one of the notable pre-season events: the Washington conference...
...Though Lamar Alexander, who is pro-choice, didn't make the same foot- stomping hit with the Christian Coalition, he's been tooling his appeal to a no-less-important group: Perot voters. The former Tennessee Governor has made a name for himself with a bumper-sticker-friendly attack on Congress: CUT THEIR PAY AND SEND THEM HOME. For the past six months he has also been the host of a monthly TV program on Republican issues relayed around the country by a satellite hookup. It may be no threat to Seinfeld, but it's the kind of show that...