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>From Wash (DC) Post
"Cohen told reporters that "we are pro-defense," but believe that
Pentagon spending can be cut 15 percent without risk. So far, he
conceded, none of the presidential hopefuls in either party has
endorsed that view."
<<15% off of what? Training ... spare parts ... deployments ...
recruitment ?? >>
> POLITICS
>
> By Thomas B. Edsall
>
> Sunday, June 20, 1999; Page A06
>
> Reform Party Seen as Option, and Bankroll, for Buchanan
>
>
>
> Patrick J. Buchanan, increasingly frustrated in his third presidential
> bid, has been advised to abandon the Republican Party and instead try
> to win the nomination of Ross Perot's Reform Party.
>
> The Reform nomination would provide the populist and protectionist
> Buchanan with $12.6 million in federal money for the general election
> against what are likely to be decidedly nonpopulist free traders as
> GOP and Democratic nominees.
>
> "This is really an enormous idea," said Don Devine, an adviser to
> Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes.
>
> Officials of the Buchanan campaign clammed up Friday when asked about
> it. Bob Adams, Buchanan's spokesman, said he was instructed to say
> that Angela "Bay" Buchanan, the candidate's sister and principal
> adviser, had "no response." Pat Buchanan was unavailable.
>
> Buchanan, who has been operating on a shoestring budget, recently sent
> out a fund-raising letter charging that the "Republican Party
> Establishment is attempting to put the fix in and rig the 2000
> nomination in favor of its anointed candidate, George W. Bush."
>
> The idea of going for the Reform Party nomination was suggested to Bay
> Buchanan and Lyn Nofziger, a conservative adviser to Buchanan, by GOP
> consultant Roger Stone. Stone's last foray into presidential politics
> was on behalf of a candidate on the other end of the ideological
> spectrum from Buchanan, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), a moderate
> abortion rights supporter.
>
> Nofziger said, "It would be up to Pat to make his own decision." He
> said he has been a lifelong Republican, but did not rule out the
> possibility of staying with Buchanan if he went for the Reform Party
> nomination. The GOP "doesn't seem to stand for a hell of a lot
> anymore," Nofziger said.
>
> Because Perot won more than 5 percent of the vote in 1996, his party
> is eligible for federal money.
>
>
>
> Business Group Promoting Military Cuts
>
> As the presidential candidates gear up their campaigns for the Iowa
> caucuses, so will a group of business executives who are promoting the
> out-of-fashion idea that $40 billion should be shifted from the
> Pentagon budget to domestic programs.
>
> Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities was started by Ben Cohen, a
> co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream makers, and claims 500 CEO
> sponsors. It has launched a grass-roots organizing campaign in Iowa
> aimed at pressuring the presidential candidates to reexamine the plans
> many of them have put forward to boost defense spending.
>
> A staff of nine, headed by Peggy Hupper, co-chair of the Polk County
> (Des Moines) Democrats, is lining up grass-roots activists to question
> the contenders about the relative merits of an additional nuclear
> submarine versus repairing rundown schools in Iowa.
>
> Next winter, as caucus time draws nearer, the television and radio ads
> will increase -- thanks to an $800,000 allocation for Iowa from a
> national campaign Cohen said is budgeted for $3 million this year and
> $6 million in 2000. That figure is substantially more than the
> candidates who accept federal matching funds can legally spend in the
> state.
>
> Cohen told reporters that "we are pro-defense," but believe that
> Pentagon spending can be cut 15 percent without risk. So far, he
> conceded, none of the presidential hopefuls in either party has
> endorsed that view.
>
>
>
> McCain Announces Education Agenda
>
> For the past few months, the war in Kosovo has given Arizona Sen. John
> McCain an effective platform. But now the GOP presidential candidate
> is staking out domestic territory, last week announcing an education
> agenda that calls for a "broad national test" of school vouchers,
> merit pay for teachers and Internet access for every school.
>
> "If America is to lead the technological revolution and use it as a
> great force for good, we must turn our hands to the most fundamental
> work of a successful society -- educating our children," McCain told
> the National Cable Television Association at its annual convention in
> Chicago.
>
> It was an audience sure to pay attention to whatever McCain said. He
> is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, which pays a lot of
> attention to the association's issues.
>
> McCain said figuring out how to use the Internet as an educational
> tool while protecting children from some of its more insidious aspects
> is a serious challenge facing the country. He called on Congress to
> pass legislation promoting the use of filtering technology in public
> school and library computers as a first step.
>
> McCain got some positive news out of New Hampshire: An RKM Research
> and Communications poll has him moving up to even with Elizabeth Dole
> at 11 percent among GOP and independent primary voters. Bush led the
> pack with 45 percent.
>
>
>
> Staff writers David S. Broder and Terry M. Neal contributed to this
> report.
>
>
> � Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company
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