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Married and a mother of two at age 20, Hayle says her life experience will help her connect with inner-city youth and demonstrate that it's possible to make it out of poverty. But whether this will help in a district that hasn't voted for a Republican since Lincoln--and where the incumbent wields such clout, according to the Washington Times, that businesses are afraid to support Hayle--will depend on getting her fellow Caribbeans and pro-life Catholics to the polls...
Dugan is tough on crime, but opposes what he calls G.O.P. extremism and cuts in Medicare and education, which he calls a preventive measure against youth crime. This seat was considered ripe for Democratic picking when G.O.P. incumbent Wes Cooley ran into trouble this fall. Then came Bob Smith, a tougher candidate than Cooley ever would have been...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Statistics indicate that youth and talent are leaving the area to find jobs and lives somewhere else. For the future of our children...[w]e need to grant them better opportunities and a reason to raise families here in the Ninth District...
...Tate parlayed his state legislative experience into a seat in Congress. Though he was the youngest G.O.P. freshman in the House, his youth didn't soften his conservative agenda: he voted to ease the Clean Water Act and to relax a law excluding court evidence illegally obtained by police. His proposal to bar illegal immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens was passed in modified form this fall. In this centrist district, Tate is running a close race with Adam Smith...
This popular incumbent requested $871 million in the fiscal 1997 budget for President Clinton's Summer Youth Employment Program, and has supported a 1996 bill to extend the presidential line-item veto to include corporate tax exemptions. In this Democratic district that gave Bill Clinton a 26% margin in 1994, Barrett has a good chance of continuing his liberal program in the 105th Congress...