From: AdmrlLocke@aol.com Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 4:05 PM Subject: GrammNet: Forbes, Quayle on TV Sunday GrammNet Issue 3/20/99 Dear Friend, I thought you'd like to know that both Steve Forbes and Dan Quayle will be making television appearances this weekend. Steve Forbes will appear tomorrow (Sunday, March 21) on NBC's Meet the Press. Also tomorrow, at 7:00 PM Eastern, C-SPAN will air the foreign policy speech Quayle delivered on Friday at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. In other news: Forbes. Forbes announced his candidacy on the Forbes 2000 web page (http://www.forbes2000.com/) Tuesday morning, March 16, receiving four million hits, about 30 percent more than the campaign's highest projections. In New Hampshire later Tuesday, Forbes became the first presidential candidate to sign the "No New Taxes" pledge of Americans for Tax Reform. He encouraged all the other candidates to sign the pledge as well. Forbes received the endorsement of R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the Editor-in-Chief of American Spectator magazine. Tyrrell, in an editorial column in Friday's Washington Times, called Forbes "the candidate of the Reaganite-Thatcherite conservative movement." Tyrrell wrote that “If [Republicans] follow their hearts and minds, they will nominate Mr. Forbes as their candidate for 2000.” Quayle. Quayle announced Sunday that U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) and former Bush White House chief of staff John Sununu would serve as national co- chairs for his campaign. On Monday, Quayle announced that Governor Kirk Fordice (R-MS), Congressman David McIntosh (R-IN), former U.S. Senator Dan Coats (R-IN), former U.S. Senator Mack Mattingly (R-GA) and former Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich (R-NV) would also serve as national campaign co-chairs. Sounds like he's running out of chairs. More important than receiving the support of various and sundry establishment Republicans, Quayle received praise from conservative columnist Robert Novak. You may recall that in 1995, Novak beat the drums for a Forbes candidacy. Could Novak's praise for Quayle, which fell far short of an endorsement, portent a shift by Novak from Forbes to Quayle? Only time will tell. Novak did quote Jack Kemp as saying of Quayle that "He's really got the most visible message, and he's been around the track a couple of times--which is a tremendous advantage." Kemp made his positive comments, which also fell short of an endorsement, after Quayle met with people whom Novak called "four of Wall Street's most influential supply-siders." Sincerely, David B. Levenstam, CPA, MT, MA GrammNet is an independent newsletter, not affiliated with Senator Gramm To subscribe to GrammNet, email me at AdmrlLocke@aol.com, with a message to the effect that you'd like to subscribe.