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Forbes' vision of America is a more radical one than his charmingly goofy smile might suggest. To Forbes, Newt Gingrich is not a revolutionary but an incrementalist, and the Republican budget is just Tax-and-Spend Lite. His flat tax is also an enormous tax cut that he concedes will raise $40 billion less in revenue than the tax system does now; the group Citizens for Tax Justice, a generally liberal think tank, estimates a 17% flat tax would produce a shortfall of $200 billion. And never mind turning matters back to the states: Forbes...
STOCKBROKER JERRY ESTRUTH, WHO IS making his first bid for Congress, is not running against his opponent. Instead, his TV ads feature a photo of a scowling Newt Gingrich above a warning about the House Speaker's proposed cuts in Medicare and education. "Jerry Estruth for Congress," an announcer says. "Newt Gingrich hasn't heard of him...But he will." The ad makes no mention of Estruth's real foe, state senator Tom Campbell...
...congressional elections, G.O.P. candidates won by running against Bill Clinton. This year the bogey man is the increasingly unpopular House Speaker. In the Nov. 7 Kentucky Governor's election, Democrat Paul Patton won largely by selling himself as a defender of the weak against Newt the serial program killer. Now in California's 15th congressional district Gingrich has become a target of opportunity for Democrats trying to win a special Dec. 12 election to replace resigned Democratic Representative Norman Mineta...
Though the district is traditionally Democratic, polls show Estruth, 52, trailing. One reason is that Campbell, 43, enjoys higher name recognition because of two terms as a Congressman in a nearby district. So Estruth is painting him as a Friend of Newt. Last week Estruth even offered Gingrich a round-trip plane ticket to California to campaign for Campbell. What Estruth doesn't say is that Campbell is a moderate whose positions on many issues are not much different from his own. "Fiscally I'm a pretty conservative guy," Estruth shrugs. "Socially I'm progressive.'' Likewise, Campbell is defiantly...
Attempting to capitalize on the horror, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said last week that the tragedy was the result of "the welfare state," which had produced "a drug-addicted underclass with no sense of humanity, no sense of civilization and no sense of the rules of life." But real life is more complex. Deborah Evans "was dying to have somebody to love her," recalls her cousin Carolyn Milani. Evans ran away from home after fighting constantly with her mother, acting out to gain the attention of her often absentee father...