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Governor Pete Wilson, who might be Phil Gramm's vice president, has made an oppressive worker's compensation system more business-friendly, and has at least tried to tackle long term problems like the state budget and illegal immigration...
Comedian BILL MAHER caused a lot of static at the Radio-Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington. Before a crowd that ranged from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Kato Kaelin, Maher drew boos when he joked about Senator Phil Gramm deporting his Korean-American wife and said D.C. mayor Marion Barry would get drugs off the city's streets "one gram at a time." Tough room...
...frozen. Each of the three top candidates is maneuvering to thwart Wilson's prospects. Lamar Alexander, who fears that Wilson could usurp his anti-Washington, outsider mantle, reminds anyone who'll listen that Wilson pledged to finish his full term as California's Governor, "and should do just that." Phil Gramm's aides point to inconsistencies in Wilson's record--"opportunistic wafflings," says Gramm strategist Charles Black. Wilson advisers deflect such shots with blithe confidence. "Big deal," says pollster Dick Dresner. "Clinton swore he'd serve his term [as Arkansas' Governor], and no one's record is totally coherent...
While most of the nation depends upon Punxatawney Phil to herald the arrival of spring, Radcliffe's crew operates independently of any groundhog logic...
Golden State at Phil...