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...Paxon has taken his ambition to the national level. In 1994, he worked closely with Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to realize the historic Republican takeover of the House. But last year, in perhaps Paxon's most eventful year, he seemed poised to challenge both Gingrich and Majority Leader Dick Armey for their positions. While Paxon's most recent connivances have come to no avail, he has somehow emerged from the controversy with a surprisingly positive public image...
Arpaio is the former federal drug agent who brought back chain gangs and black-and-white-striped convict outfits. He's the man who blacked out all television for inmates except G-rated flicks, the Weather Channel, Newt Gingrich videos and (opponents of torture may want to look away here) C-SPAN. He put up a neon vacancy sign at the tent city--get it?--served ostrich meat and green bologna to save tax dollars and made the inmates wear that pink underwear to make it harder for them to smuggle it out and to humiliate them. Sales of pink...
...news that Representative Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.) is resigning is disappointing. The Republican Party is losing a rising star to the abyss of private life, and Americans are losing a good chance to knock off Dick Armey (R-Tex.), Newt's sidekick, as majority leader...
During a break in the official program at the House Republican retreat last week in Williamsburg, Va., NEWT GINGRICH sidled up to BILL PAXON and asked if they could have a chat. That raised eyebrows: relations between the two have been ice-cold since last summer, when the New York Congressman lost his leadership job after taking part in a failed coup attempt against the Speaker. Despite the bad blood, Gingrich quietly pressed Paxon for his support when the Speaker runs for re-election in December...
...there is a ferocious race to become his heir apparent. It is also why Paxon, who agreed to support the Speaker, refused when Gingrich urged him to back the re-election of the entire leadership. As Gingrich knows, disgruntled House Republicans are urging Paxon to take on Newt's top deputy, majority leader DICK ARMEY. That way, if Gingrich steps down, Paxon would be in position to replace him. Any doubts Gingrich had about how he's really regarded in the Paxon household were erased later in the week when the New York Post excerpted a book written by Paxon...