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Capps learned something in his 1994 run against Andrea Seastrand: campaigning helps. The University of California at Santa Barbara religious-studies chairman continued to teach during that race and lost by just 1,563 votes. This year he was sent to the hospital by a drunk driver. But the unflappable Capps is making the election a referendum on Newt Gingrich and sees his own political naivete as a plus...
...ANDREA SEASTRAND (R) District...
Incumbent Seastrand faces a spirited challenge from Walter Capps in this moderately Republican district. As a G.O.P. freshman she pushed for welfare reform, including a two-year limit on benefits and, as part of her Personal Responsibility Act, complete prohibition on welfare to minor mothers. Seastrand, a devout Christian, is ardently pro-life and anti-gay and sometimes spices her politics with fire and brimstone, once calling California's quakes, floods and fires "God's wrath...
Eighteen members left the church in protest against Pastor Seastrand's stand, but his methods have won over many of the congregation, and 26 additional whites have joined the church since the inter-racial policy became known. Said a Texas-born deacon at a church meeting: "No one has had a more difficult job battling this problem than I. But I thank God that I now not only recognize what is the right thing to do but am willing to accept...
...overcome their hesitation. "It is the happiest day of my life," said Mrs. Williams. "When you sense that faith and feel that Christian fellowship, all barriers disappear." Now Augustana Church hopes to draw many Negro neighbors. "Some members of the congregation are still wrestling with prejudice," says Pastor Seastrand, "but they are winning...