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...like getting addicted by a pusher. You become accustomed to lavish campaigns." In 1974 the average cost of campaigning for the House was $50,000; in 1980 the average was $150,000, and this year races costing $500,000 are not uncommon. Says House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois, who has raised more than $220,000 from PACs: "This year I'll pay several hundred thousand dollars for a job that pays...
Ever since he first went to Congress 26 years ago, Republican Congressman Robert Michel has played well in Peoria, the largest town in his 18th Congressional District in central Illinois. Now Peoria seems to be having its doubts. Long a pocket of prosperity in America's heartland, the region is reeling from depressed farm prices and 16% unemployment. The Pabst brewery and the Hiram Walker distillery have left town, and giant Caterpillar Tractor alone has laid off 8,000 workers. So Michel, 59, the House minority leader and President Reagan's high-profile point man on Capitol Hill...
Small wonder. Michel is widely blamed in his home town for failing to change Reagan's mind about U.S. sanctions against the Soviet gas pipeline. This Reagan decision cost Caterpillar an $85 million contract for pipelaying equipment and shifted future contracts to its leading rival, Japan's Komatsu. Michel later broke publicly with the President on this issue, but he has not otherwise sought to distance himself from the Administration. Says Michel: "Ronald Reagan is not a problem for me or for the country...
Stephens, 31, a lawyer with ties to organized labor, claims that Michel's responsibilities as a G.O.P. leader put him at odds with his factory and farm constituency. He also criticizes Michel's heavy contributions from political action committees that "read like the FORTUNE 500 list." Stephens, trying to overcome low name recognition, has raised about $120,000 so far, to Michel's $490,000. The House Republican leader ranks first in Illinois and third nationally among House candidates in PAC contributions...
...apartment is too small. The dog is too large. Michel has just been caught having an affair with a pressagent. And the best job Josepha can get for the moment is in a soft-core porn movie. Well, that's show business, and it is hard to remember a movie that has better caught the flavor of life down at the supporting-player level (where you do your best work in little theaters for audiences of a hundred and your worst work on television for audiences of millions) than Christopher Frank's wise, rueful, often comical little import...