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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (30713)	1/29/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Well I'm back to brighten your day!

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (30713)	1/29/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Constituents Angered by Impeachment Put California Republican on Early Notice nytimes.com Thought you'd enjoy this one, Michelle. Of course, we must remember this will all be forgotten by the next election. Besides being stupid, the voters have a short attention span. Just remember, Vote Republican, Y2K! You're stupid, and they're not! Representative Tom Campbell knew his vote to impeach the President would make some people unhappy. In December, when he was part of a small group of moderate Republicans who had not declared which way they would vote, the majority of the thousands of calls to his office were against impeachment. His vote to impeach in this traditionally Democratic district, Campbell acknowledged then, might hurt him politically. Now, Campbell, who was handily re-elected in November in a district that includes parts of San Jose and the rest of Silicon Valley, is beginning to see how unhappy people are with him, and just how much it might hurt. As he described it, he has been inundated with protest calls and E-mail, and not just from Democrats. Some local Republicans are switching parties and organizing to defeat him in 2000, convincing him that the impeachment vote will be an issue here in the 15th Congressional District in the next election. "The opposition my vote has engendered is by far the most I've ever received on one vote," Campbell said. "The only vote that comes near it is when I voted for the Persian Gulf war." His situation may be a sign that there is trouble ahead for other Republican moderates, who are usually in districts with a high proportion of swing voters. Campbell has long been known as a political independent who could be relied on to rise above partisan politics -- voting against Newt Gingrich's re-election as Speaker, for example. Now, voters who have relied on him in the past say he bowed to political pressure in what he himself said was the most important vote he could cast. Most notable among his angry constituents is Republicans Against Campbell, a group that includes 12 professors at Stanford University, where Campbell is on the law school faculty. Gerald Fisher, a visiting professor of physics, said the group, which believes that Republicans have used the President's affair with Monica S. Lewinsky as an excuse to try to subvert his re-election, considered Campbell "a lame duck." "As one of my colleagues put it, we're his base," said Fisher, who is creating a list of potential contenders for Campbell's seat. "If he has lost the confidence and support of his home base -- and I don't know anyone who isn't disgusted with him -- then he's finished."