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...ADDRESS: P.O. Box 52-2784, Miami 33152. Tel.: 305-460-3245 The first Cuban American in Congress, Ros-Lehtinen helped pass the Helms-Burton bill, which penalizes those who profit from property confiscated by the Castro regime. With no Democrat in the race, she will probably keep her seat...
Sutton, a conservative who's proud of his quarter-million-dollar campaign war chest, has strategized hard to win this open seat, even hiring Democrat David Taunton's campaign coordinator as a way to appeal to conservative Democratic voters. He favors lower taxes for families, a balanced-budget amendment and more reform of education, welfare and Medicare. A founder of B.A.D.D.--Bankers Against Drug Dealers--he has made drugs and crime major issues, accusing President Clinton of having a "just inhale" policy...
...effective advocate for the military bases there, but last spring found herself back on the redistricting block when a federal panel declared the horseshoe-shaped district, which stretched more than 250 miles through 14 counties, to have been racially gerrymandered. Brown is now worried about her seat, since the number of black voters in the redrawn Third dropped from over half the population to just over...
State House majority leader Davis won a difficult primary runoff. And having spent nearly all his campaign war chest, he welcomed the support he got from Democratic heavies like House minority leader Dick Gephardt and retiring Representative Sam Gibbon, who held this seat for 34 years. Davis opposes school vouchers, saying public education will suffer if money is given to private schools...
Canady switched parties in 1989, won a congressional seat three years later and has since reigned as a champion of conservative Republican causes. This year he sponsored the Partial Birth Abortion Act to prosecute doctors who perform this rare procedure; and as chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, he fought unsuccessfully for an amendment to impose term limits. Running against his lesser-known cousin, his biggest challenge may be to make sure no one pulls the wrong lever by mistake...