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...many as 19 points, can't be written off as the first sitting House Speaker to be dumped in 134 years after all. The latest poll in his eastern Washington district, published Sunday in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, found Foley had climbed to within two points of Republican George Nethercutt, 44-46. With the error margin, it's a dead heat. The poll follows Foley's newest strategy: reminding Spokane-area residents that the pork stops if he loses. BTW: Foley's message might be sinking in: a recent poll that found 30 percent of the district's voters thought...
...also filed a lawsuit challenging such limits on federal officeholders as unconstitutional. Thus far, the federal courts think Foley has a good case. Washington voters, however, may just take matters into their own hands -- in the voting booths. According to polls, they are defecting in droves to George Nethercutt, 49, a Republican challenger who vows that, if elected, he -- unlike the 65-year-old incumbent -- will serve no more than three terms. In a particularly stinging TV ad, Nethercutt sniffs, "I would never sue my constituents to save...
...House seat is now in jeopardy. "People are saying that he's become too big for his britches and that he's just out of touch," says Randy Pepple, a Seattle G.O.P. consultant. Flapping hard from the lofty perch of House Speaker, Foley's venerability is his greatest vulnerability. Nethercutt, a youngish Republican lawyer with boundless energy and a ready smile, punches out the message that Foley has succumbed to Beltway-think. "Mr. Foley is a nice man, but he personifies Congress's reputation," he says. Nethercutt's point is coming through loud and clear. In the state's open...
Ironically, Nethercutt's strategy is precisely the same one that took Foley from the rainy state of Washington to the humid city of Washington in the first place. In 1964 Foley was a politically inexperienced Spokane lawyer with boundless energy and a shy smile, who set out to unseat a 22-year Republican House veteran. While the incumbent trumpeted his track record, battle scars and hard-earned seniority, Foley exploited a prevailing mood of anti- incumbency in the electorate. The upstart triumphed...
...terms in Congress, Foley has consistently resisted gun-control legislation. In August, however, he voted for Clinton's crime bill, which included a ban on 19 kinds of assault weapons. As a result, Foley incurred the wrath of the National Rifle Association, which responded with a massive mailing on Nethercutt's behalf...