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Before the Oklahoma blast, the militias could count on two freshmen Republicans in Congress for staunch support. Representative Helen Chenoweth of Idaho has publicly noted that "black helicopters" operated by the Federal Government -- a common demonic image in militia lore -- have harassed Idaho citizens. Representative Steve Stockman of Texas sent a concerned letter to Attorney General Janet Reno in March when he heard rumors that the Federal Government was about to raid local militias. "A paramilitary-style attack against Americans who pose no risk to others ... would run the risk of an irreparable breach between the Federal Government...
Last week, however, both Stockman and Chenoweth were trying to explain themselves. Stockman had the most difficult part of it. His office had been faxed a "first update" on the Oklahoma bombing at about the same time as the blast. The source: Wolverine Productions, the Michigan home base of antigovernment agitator and shortwave-radio broadcaster Mark Koernke. Says Stockman: "I don't even know the woman that sent me the fax. I mean, all I know is that she was Orange County [Texas] Republican chairman for a while, and then I heard she just up and disappeared." In fact, according...
Name: Farah "Flail" Stockman...
...freshmen--who include an obstetrician, a florist, an accountant, an insurance agent and a onetime member of Sonny and Cher--can claim to be something different from the usual crop of lawyers. They are the Jacobins in this revolution. After dropping out of college in 1980, Texas Representative Steve Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back from an addiction to cocaine. The electoral wave...
...week at which anti-bailout freshmen teamed with conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, first-termer Wamp promised to vote ``with the people of east Tennessee this time and not with [Fed Chairman] Mr. Greenspan.'' And while that puts the freshmen on the opposite side from their own leadership as well, Stockman says, ``In reality, I'm trying to save them from themselves...