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Jumf yH An 6A THE HERALD FRIDAY OCTOBFR 20 1904 A rnr rjyiw ijrnf GOP begins advertising blitz Democrats scramble to counter Rodham: The issues are on my side Associated Press Republican National Committee ATTACK ADS: President Clinton and House Speaker Tom Foley appear in GOP ad on on taxes and Reuters News Service WASHINGTON Republicans launched a $2 million television blitz against the Democrats on Thursday as the national election campaign neared its final week but a wary White House hustled to beat its foes to the punch Republican Chairman Haley Barbour outlined a TV advertising campaign accusing President party of lying double-talk and plans to cut Social Security pension spending in every election for years the Democrats have cranked up the campaign falsely claiming Republicans want to cut Social Security would devastate Medicare and the usual scare Barbour said big-lie campaign rings especially hollow this But with Clinton attending to high-profile peace diplomacy in the Middle East the White House organized a pre-emptive strike against his political foes calling reporters to a briefing one hour before the Republican news conference Spin control The dueling spin-control efforts underscored the bitter political combat and high stakes involved in the Nov 8 state and congressional elections in which the surging Republicans are challenging Democratic control of both houses of Congress All 435 seats are at stake in the House where Republicans need a gain of 40 seats to win control for the first time in 40 years They would need a net gain of seven seats in the 100-member Senate to take over that chamber for the first time since 1986 Thirty-six of 50 state governorships are also involved At the White House briefing presidential chief of staff Leon Panetta said the Republican ad GROWING UP: As a young man Rodham led his team to the Illinois high school championship campaign shows they obviously Social Security issue Panetta said Clinton is committed not to cut Social Security benefits He said Democrats would welcome a debate on Social Security to match records with Republicans noting that the federal pension system was a Depression-era creation of Democratic President Franklin administration One of the Republican ads plays on a recently leaked memo by administration budget director Alice Rivlin in which she outlined possible economic options for the future including tax hikes and some Social Security cuts a matter of the ad says and the Democrats attack and distort Republican plans But behind closed doors the Clinton White House discusses cuts in Social Security and Medicare And billions more in tax increases A secret White House memo details a national sales tax a tax on health benefits even a tax on Medicare and Social Security Fed up with the Democrat double-talk and hypocrisy on tax and spending? On Nov 8 send the Clinton Congress Another ad accuses the Democrats of about Republicans to hide their It says: promising a middle-class tax cut they raised taxes Even on senior citizens They promised us a tax cut But they conned Panetta said Democrats would continue into next week a series of TV ads attacking Republicans for their much-publicized with plan which sets forth a conservative legislative agenda the Democrats brand as a return to favor-the-rich policies from Ronald era Panetta once budget chief said it would be all but impossible to balance the budget under the Republican because of promised revenue cuts and spending AP file photo Cuomo in dead heat with GOP challenger CAMPAIGNING IN MIAMI: Hugh Rodham versal health care despite the fact that the senator and his wife have undergone expensive cancer surgery at government expense a perk of elected office Taken together it would seem powerful fuel for a campaign especially against an incumbent who won with less than 1 percent of the vote to spare in 1988 Yet according to recent polls Rodham is poised to be thumped by Mack by better than 2-1 on Nov 8 a fact that baffles and frustrates him Vicious circle facing a self-fulfilling Rodham said in an interview at his disheveled Coral Gables headquarters last week tell us that not going to give us money because going to lose thus ensuring that without any money we will But even his supporters concede some blame for the problems lies with Rodham Despite help from the White House and the solicitous advice of some of the best political minds this has seemed the campaign of an overgrown puppy full of energy and spirit but constantly capable of tripping over itself and soiling the rug National Democratic Party Chairman David Wilhelm and others tried to talk Rodham out of the race fearing a poor performance would embarrass President Clinton and drag the ticket down Then came news media hits Barely had Rodham announced his candidacy when the media disclosed that he had never voted in Florida until 1991 and that he had flubbed the state bar exam on several occasions His first campaign manager Michael Copperthite had to be fired when Rodham learned the consultant had falsified his credentials To many Rodham became a cartoon figure trading on his family name Florida Republican Party Chairman Tom Slade called Rodham Carter with a law Even New York Times writer Maureen Dowd likened Rodham to the late actor John Candy and called the campaign a bid that has the feel of a Candy shows Pataki ahead of Cuomo by 1 percentage point 37 percent to 36 percent with Golisano at 8 percent and 17 percent undecided A month ago the Marist poll found Pataki leading Cuomo 44 percent to 38 percent A New York PostFox 5 poll showed Pataki leading Cuomo 395 percent to 36 percent with Golisano at 6 percent and 16 percent undecided The margin of error in both polls put the race effectively evem From Herald Wire Services NEW YORK Three days after New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani broke party ranks to endorse Gov Mario Cuomo for re-election the race in New York state has narrowed dramatically Two polls show a statistical dead heat between Cuomo and his Republican challenger state Sen George Pataki And the number of undecided voters in both surveys has grown Giulianifs endorsement plus the growing strength of Thomas Golisano a businessman who is seeking the governorship as an Independence Fusion Party candidate appear to have caught Pataki the frontrunner for months in political pincers Giuliani chipping away at Pataki downstate and Golisano chipping away upstate the whole election becomes less well-defined and more uncertain than it said Lee Miringoff director of the Marist College Public Opinion Poll which RODHAM FROM 1A is his position not his that is backed by the majority of Floridians a fact borne out by polls He has family ties to the White House He has a hard-hitting media plan complete with blunt television commercials Still even after two visits by his sister and one by President Clinton what he lacks is respect and the money that would let him buy it it going to take to get Rodham said on a podium in the middle of the turnpike at Yeehaw Junction shouting into the In the race to determine who will be next junior senator campaign resonates with sound and fury But it is a race conducted largely in a vacuum as even a majority of Democrats appear resigned to the fate of seeing if not helping the ultra-conservative Mack returned to a second term Money in short supply With barely two weeks to go Rodham has raised about $600000 a pittance in a statewide campaign (Mack has $45 million) Though he may be poor in money Rodham believes loaded with ammunition with which to attack Mack whose voting record puts him a millimeter from Jesse Helms on most issues In interviews in campaign appearances and in his dust-gath-enng commercials everywhere but in a debate which Mack has avoided the Democrat paints his opponent with the brush of extremism drawn from the own record a good thing that Connie Mack is a senator and not the captain of a ship because women and children would go Rodham told a Democratic club breakfast on Wednesday On that morning attack dwelled on opposition to the new federal education program which will provide millions in aid to local schools districts with special help to disabled youngsters Mack voted both to support a Filibuster by Helms against the measure R-NC and against the final bill is a bill that provided ramps for schools so disabled children could go to classes It bought them hearing aids the things they would need to be treated like all the other Rodham said Connie Mack voted against it Do you know why? Because there was no mandatory prayer rider in He also ripped vote against the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances which ordered anti-abortion demonstrators to remain at least 36 feet away from clinic entrances Mack who is staunchly against abortion rights said the bill violated the free speech of demonstrators Rodham disagrees citing the murders of a doctor and his volunteer escort by abortion protesters in Pensacola: this bill did was life saving somebody explain that to Connie the big spender? And in voting against the new federal crime bill the Democrat said Mack was also voting against more police for Florida streets security lighting for dangerous areas shelters for abused women and children and several crime prevention measures explanation for his no vote that the bill require prisoners to serve 85 percent of their sentences also rings hollow according to Rodham you know how much it would cost to build enough prisons to meet Rodham asked $60 billion and $360 billion over five years you tell me who is the big spender Rodham said turning campaign motto to his own use Who is the person who believes in less taxes and more Rodham also rips high-profile support for cancer research an issue the Republican has said is motivated largely by his own encounters with the disease so against the Democrat asked does Connie Mack take $26000 in contributions from the tobacco high profile in the fight against universal health care draws fire too In one of his many overlooked campaign promises Rodham pledged that if elected to the Senate he would pay his own private health insurance until all Americans can have access to similar care By contrast he pointed out that Mack was among the leaders in Republican opposition to uni- comic Being dismissed as a joke was not what Rodham counted on A native of Chicago Rodham was born four years after his famous sister the middle of three children He was a star quarterback leading his high school to the Illinois championship then winning a benchwarming spot on three Penn State football teams that vied for national championships between 1969 and 1972 After graduation Rodham did a stint in the Peace Corps in Latin America then earned both a doctorate in education and a law degree from the University of Arkansas where he helped his brother-in-law campaign for governor He arrived in Miami in 1981 and joined the Dade public office representing penniless defendants against criminal charges most of whom nevertheless end up in jail public service proud Rodham said everyone has the chance to go to work to defend the constitutional rights of this same sense of idealistic mission that propels Rodham in his current quest the he said want people to say that we tried to do the right thing that we raised the right issues and that we run a dirty Tilt UM0HII4MIIII HDD mini mum fMIIUIISt TXPO The world's leading franchises want to talk to you about opportunities from Florida to Argentina Brazil to Mexico and everywhere in between Companies such as McDonalds Subway Dry Clean USA Howard Johnson Precision Tune Minuteman Press and many more Don't miss this unique opportunity once a franchise is sold it's gone OCTOBER 28 29 30 10 AM to 5 PM Radisson Centre Corner of Rt 836 NW 72nd Ave Plenty of free parking Learn what's new in franchising and make franchising work for you Our outstanding seminar program features franchise experts from throughout the Americas For information call: Miami 871-4436 National 210-227-2502 Give a Thanksgiving Dinner to a Homeless Person Your generous Thanksgiving contribution of any amount will feed the hungry shelter the homeless and give hope to the hopeless Please fill out the coupon clip and mail it with your gift today Thank you for caring for the hungry and homeless at Thanksgiving vc: Dr Frank Jacobs Executive Director Miami Rescue Mission includes overhead and costs few serving meals ATOPY OFTHPOnriAl REOISTRATIOS ANDFTSAM1A1 INWIATION MAY BP CWTAIMD PROW TO MV IVION OP CONSUMER SERVICES BY CAlliSGTOU HWWITHIMHF ST ATP WOVE I Mfr 43S7M2 RMiISTRATION DoFA YOl IWFU ENlXiRstMfcM APPROVAL OR RbCOMViENDATlOS BY THE STATE Dear Friend During the next few weeks literally hundreds of destitute hungry and homeless people will come to us seeking help They afraid anxious alone hurting sick running from the memories of the past which are especially painful as Thanksgiving approaches When these people come to us cold hungry and in despair they are often shocked when not turned awav or treated like worthless junk But we reach out to them in love and compassion And for our Thanksgiving dinner serve traditional roast nirkey with savory dressing mashed potatoes and gravy hot vegetables cranberry sauce topped off with a giant slice of pie Because much of our food is donated it costs the Mission just S147 each to serve these hot nutritious meals That means ($1470 will help provide 10 meals $2940 will help provide 20 meals $5880 will help provide 40 meals $147 will help provide 100 meals YES! 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