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Taking a column from the Ross Perot spreadsheet of political life, each week Minnick invites the press to a "Sunday Pork Chop," where he explains how to balance the federal budget. A Nixon Administration budget aide, Minnick wants to eliminate "corporate welfare," get our allies to foot part of the defense bill and trim spending without raising taxes or gutting entitlements...
...country--"As Maine goes, so goes the nation"--the Pine Tree State has become a bit of a political aberration: there are more minor-party or unaffiliated voters there than either registered Republicans or Democrats. In 1992 a third of Maine's voters opted for third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot, and in 1994 each of its congressional districts switched parties in sending a Representative to Washington...
...Third is flat, crop-growing Republican country, where Ross Perot gets more votes than Bill Clinton. Barrett won his past two elections handily (in fact, for a while it looked as if he would run unopposed). In this district, where sugar beets are king, Barrett fights for anything that will help farmers (he chairs the General Farm Commodities Subcommittee) and against anything that will hurt them--most recently, the 1997 budget, which would have cut federal spending on agriculture by millions of dollars...
...mother's life is endangered. The Beehive State also leads the country in number of hours its citizens work--an average of 48 per week, more even than the notorious workaholic Japanese. Democrats do have a toehold with Representative Bill Orton, but in 1992 even third-party candidate Ross Perot won more votes here than Bill Clinton...
Swindle spent eight years in the Reagan Administration as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and state director of the Farmers Home Administration He was also the first national leader of Ross Perot's United We Stand America. He believes his credentials give him the experience to cull useless bureaucracy and save tax dollars. He also supports tax cuts and trimming Medicare's growth rate...