Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this race amid controversy over his past, Smith, who gave up the seat in 1994, was wooed back to electoral politics by an offer from Newt Gingrich to chair the House Agriculture Committee. A former rancher, Smith is a conservative westerner who wants endangered-species laws loosened and federal land opened to more development...
BORN: Jan. 15, 1927, Glasgow, Mont. EDUCATION: Huntington Public High School (Los Angeles), diploma, 1943 FAMILY: Divorced; three children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Navy, 1943-49; Naval Reserve, 1949-53 OCCUPATION: Land developer and consultant POLITICAL CAREER: Sought nomination for U.S. House (as a Democrat) 1980, 1982; (as a Republican) 1984, 1992; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 41565, Eugene...
Though he has run under various parties' banners over the years, Newkirk considers himself a friend of the blue-collar worker. He favors a flat tax and opposes gun control, but his burning issue is freeing up Oregon land for economic development...
...Founding Fathers envisioned fiscal and individual responsibility, the protection of individual rights and the sanctity of private property. To those ends, he supported welfare reform and condemns the tax system. He argues for laws that would recycle and upgrade old industrial sites instead of building factories on rural land, a rare commodity in this industrial district...
Contrasting his small-town roots with what he calls Bud Shuster's big-city problems, Kemmler says he knows the people, land and needs of this district. He emphasizes economic development, education and the environment. But even with Shuster's problems, it may be difficult to overcome the momentum of incumbency...