Subject: "End to" special interests...(Guru)
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 184605 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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......."Washington today ... a swamp of special interests."
.......Let's drain it.... "The only way you are going to do it
is with an aroused and informed public putting on pressure"
"If they think their jobs are in jeopardy, they will fo along...."
Sounds like something the stuff the guru writes, doesn't it??
Read on......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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02:40 PM ET 11/18/99
Forbes Would End Special Interests
By WALTER R. MEARS=
AP Special Correspondent=
WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) _ Republican Steve Forbes described
Washington today as a swamp of special interests, and said that as
president, he'd drain it.
``Washington attracts special interests the way a swamp attracts
mosquitoes,'' Forbes told about 200 people at a campaign breakfast.
``We've got to start draining this particular swamp. It's beyond
saving.''
He said the income tax code, which he wants dumped in favor of a
17 percent flat tax, accounts for about half the lobbying in the
capital, and the establishment is against basic change.
``So how do you make that change, get them to go along with it
on Capitol Hill?'' the magazine publisher-candidate asked. ``Reagan
was right. He said you're not going to do it with sweet reason. The
only way you're going to do it is through an aroused and informed
public putting on pressure.
``If they think their jobs are in jeopardy, they will go
along,'' Forbes said.
To get to that point, Forbes said, he needs a mandate, first in
the New Hampshire presidential primary on Feb. 1. He ranks a
far-back third in the public opinion polls, behind front-running
Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
``How do you get around the Republican establishment which
clearly is not very open to an outsider coming in like I'm trying
to do?'' he said. ``The only way they'll pay attention is if you
make your voices heard on Feb. 1.
``Then suddenly they'll try to become our new best friends,'' he
said. ``But you have to speak first and make clear what you want.
If you go with politics as usual, there'll just be more yak, yak,
yak, trimming around the edges.''
At a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Salem, Forbes was asked
about his low standing in the polls.
``In terms of polls, I think the thing to remember right now is
that people haven't focused.''
Forbes said there will be huge shifts in the polls in the two
weeks before the Feb. 1 primary ``as people really start to focus
and make their minds up.''
He added: ``I've been moving up in New Hampshire and moving up
in Iowa.'' He is still far behind Bush and McCain.
At the luncheon, which drew about 130 people, Forbes also was
asked to spell out his differences with the front-running Bush.
``The differences, I think, from what we can gather, and that's
why we need to debate so we can truly see what they are, are in
several areas and one is taxes,'' Forbes said.
``The record in Texas is very mixed. I want to get rid of the
IRS ... so there's a contrast.''
He said other differences are in spending, which Forbes said he
wants capped, and on Social Security, Medicare and education.
``He wants Washington to take the lead in education reforms,''
Forbes said. ``I think that is an utter contradiction. I don't want
Washington, in effect, dictating what our curriculums are.''
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