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Blunt, a fifth-generation southwest Missourian, lost his 1992 bid for Governor in a bitterly negative campaign. Not repeating that mistake, he centered this year's primary campaign on Christian character and family virtues--supported by a healthy campaign fund. The conservative Blunt hopes to eliminate "million-dollar pensions" for members of Congress, and believes government should return more decisions to state and local levels...
...would the forebears of Bob Lloyd, the Missourian who runs Bodine Aluminum in St. Louis and nearby Troy. Here Japanese workers hold Shinto ceremonies to celebrate milestones such as a new furnace or the casting of the 1 millionth engine part. "Our people think the plant ceremonies are a riot," says Lloyd...
...Speaker in a second Clinton term, Gephardt would have to find common ground with the Democrats in the White House too, and that may be complicated by the Missourian's strained relationship with the President. Gephardt is a straight arrow who looks like he walked out of an episode of Happy Days and is said to disapprove of the President's baby-boomer propensity for self-indulgence. On a political level, Gephardt also resents Clinton for his "triangulation" strategy of distancing himself from congressional Democrats. To this day, Hill Democrats argue that Clinton owes his political resurrection not to adviser...
...hope of delaying such a showdown that Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan had cut a deal with his colleague John Danforth in late May. In return for the Missourian's attempt at compromise, the pro-choice New Yorker signed on to the result: two pro-life amendments to the committee's health-care bill. Like many other senior Democrats, Moynihan hoped to put the issue off for another...
Friends of House majority leader Richard Gephardt have already sounded out potential contributors. Talk is that the Missourian might enter the race as early as Thursday or Friday of this week, putting into effect a fairly detailed contingency plan he has developed to take advantage of a serious stumble by Clinton...