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Which is what could happen in California this week. Bauer has inserted himself into a battle between two Republicans in a special election for a House seat in Santa Barbara. The district is made up mostly of fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republicans, which is why Speaker Newt Gingrich was backing Brooks Firestone, an heir to the family tire business who became a winemaker and, since 1994, a moderate, pro-choice state assemblyman. But a furious Bauer ponied up $100,000 for an ad campaign that zings Firestone for his refusal to back a ban on partial-birth abortions and promotes...
...also had a subtle, charming guile. In his eulogy last week, Newt Gingrich recalled how Bono defused a tense congressional meeting with a joke at his own expense. Even Cher couldn't stay mad at him. (Bono jokingly explained away her barbs as proof she was really still in love with him. And after last week's tribute--the final episode of the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour--who's to say he was wrong?) He recognized few barriers. Parties at his Georgetown home were smorgasbords of Republican stalwarts consorting with Bono pals like Democratic Congressman Barney Frank and John Waters...
...balance between conservatives and liberals is a productive stance for a non-partisan institution that has been perceived as so far on the left that House Speaker Newt Gingrich canceled the 1994 New Members of Congress Conference there and opted for the Heritage Foundation instead. But we hope, with the return of the conference and the new appointments of conservatives, that the Kennedy School's political balancing act is about finished. After all, if its increasing conservative focus increases any more, the partisan shift might blur its policy priorities...
Tuesday morning, fellow House members spoke with smiles of Bono, whom they described as a charismatic figure with great timing. And they spoke of a serious legislator, a student of politics for whom Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted advancement, at least within the House ranks. The liberals of the '80s, always suspicious of Reagan, found Bono's election an easy joke. He was a celebrity Congressman, popular with fellow members as well as with autograph-seekers, the second-most requested draw at members' events behind Gingrich. "The last thing in the world I thought I would be is a U.S. congressman...
...NEWT GINGRICH 1995 Storming Congress with a revived G.O.P...