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...Washington State, Americans for Limited Terms spent $320,000 on radio and television ads attacking House Speaker Tom Foley for opposing congressional term limits. Foley was defeated by Spokane lawyer George Nethercutt...
Even Speaker of the House Tom Foley (D-Wash.), who rejected an invitation to appear with Clinton in his home state last month, couldn't move far enough away from the administration and lost to another unknown, George Nethercutt...
With 14,000 absentee ballots still uncounted -- and his House Speakership down the tubes, in any case -- Tom Foley conceded Washington state's 5th Congressional District race to GOP newcomer George Nethercutt. Just 2,174 votes (or 1 percent) down, Foley, the first sitting Speaker dumped since the Civil War, chose not to wait days for the final count -- which, half-completed, favored Nethercutt 55 to 45 percent. What sunk the 15-termer? The mostly-conservative voters couldn't forgive him for joining a 1992 court battle challenging a citizen term limits initiative, ramming through President Clinton's gun-control...
...first of half a dozen scheduled debates with Nethercutt, Foley even managed to muster something that resembled a sneer as he suggested that his opponent would help "move the speakership of the House from eastern Washington to Georgia," an allusion to would-be Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, in exchange for "the lowest position on the House Agriculture Committee," Nethercutt's presumed assignment. His face deeply flushed, Foley shouted, "I fight every day with greater influence on issue after issue for the people of this district...
Meanwhile, an increasingly defensive Nethercutt keeps trying to steer the debate back to the waste and corruption of the system at large. "Everything that comes from Washington comes with a price," Nethercutt says. But there was almost a plaintiveness in his voice as he reassured a local group that they need not suffer a pork-free diet: "Don't be fearful that the world will come to an end if Tom Foley is defeated...