From: AdmrlLocke@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 12:11 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: GrammNet: Bauer Chair Endorses Forbes! GrammNet Issue 9/21/99 Dear Friend, As you know, I've been saying all along that Steve Forbes is the only conservative candidate with the resources and appeal to both economic and social conservatives necessary to challenge George Bush Junior, the candidate of the liberal media and Republican establishment. But if you don't believe me, perhaps you'll believe the National Chairman of Gary Bauer's presidential campaign. Please read below his clear, cogent explanation for his recent decision to resign from the Bauer campaign and enthusiastically endorse Steve Forbes. Sincerely, David B. Levenstam, CPA, MT, MA Forbes in 2000! 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. GrammNet back issues available at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3390/ Steve Forbes web page (Forbes 2000) at http://www.forbes2000.com ----------------------------------- CONTACT: JULEANNA GLOVER WEISS, (703)-837-5200 MEMO FROM JARVIS ATTACHED TO BELOW RELEASE BAUER NATIONAL CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN ENDORSES STEVE FORBES ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - Charles Jarvis has resigned his position as Gary Bauer's National Campaign Chairman and today endorsed Steve Forbes for President. In a memo to conservative leaders around the country, Mr. Jarvis - who previously served as Executive Vice President of Focus on the Family under the leadership of Dr. James Dobson and in the Reagan Administration - cited Mr. Forbes's strong pro-life views, economic experience and powerful performance in the Iowa Straw Poll as reasons for pro-family conservatives to now unite behind "the only conservative who can win." Excerpts from Mr. Jarvis's memo: "After much soul searching, I have concluded that Gary Bauer, my friend and colleague for 16 years, cannot win. We waged a valiant effort in Iowa. I am very proud of our work. But we must be honest with ourselves. Our efforts, while impressive, were not enough. "This is now a race between George W. Bush and Steve Forbes. Gov. Bush is the Whitman/Weld/Wilson establishment candidate. Steve Forbes is the Reagan conservative candidate. Once you realize this, the choice is clear: Steve Forbes is the only conservative who can win and it is time for all conservatives to rally behind him. "Today, having resigned my position with the Bauer campaign, I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically endorse Steve Forbes for President. I will do everything I can to help Steve win because I believe that he is the only candidate who can lead our movement into a new conservative century." Steve Forbes made the following statement: "I am deeply grateful for Charlie's support. He's a good man. He's fought in the pro-family trenches for years. I welcome him aboard. We're going to win the Republican nomination and the presidency by uniting economic and social conservatives and building a new conservative majority." J. Kenneth Blackwell, National Campaign Chairman for Forbes2000 stated, "We're excited by Charlie's endorsement. We look forward to working with him in the weeks ahead. Charlie is right. Steve Forbes is the only true conservative who can win and we're going to win." -- 30 -- ATTACHMENT: SEPTEMBER 15, 1999 To: Conservative Leaders From: Charles Jarvis Former National Campaign Chairman, Bauer 2000 Subject: Why I am endorsing Steve Forbes Never in the history of the pro-life, pro-family movement has so much been at stake. The makeup of the Supreme Court and the protection of unborn children will be determined by the next President, who may have the opportunity to appoint as many as three Justices, including the next Chief Justice. Yet Texas Gov. George W. Bush refuses to commit to appointing pro-life Justices. Nor will he commit to nominating a pro-life Vice President. To do either, he says, would be to impose an unacceptable "litmus test," mimicking the language of pro-choice liberals. We conservatives must not follow those who refuse to lead. At the same time, Big Government keeps getting bigger and Gov. Bush has no passion for cutting spending, cutting taxes or ending the IRS as we know it. In Texas, he proposed 75 new taxes in his 1997 "tax reform" plan and has raised spending by some 36%. He's spending faster than Bill Clinton and Al Gore! We don't need bureaucratic tinkering on our retirement system and burdensome tax system. We desperately need dynamic, workable alternatives that fire the engines of American creativity and productivity. We must lift burdens from taxpayers, not create new ones. Yet Gov. Bush won't do that. Pat Buchanan and Bob Smith respond by leaving the Republican Party. I understand their frustration. But I also know that if the pro-family movement leaves the GOP, pro-choice liberals will run the Supreme Court for generations to come, we'll never cut taxes and Big Government will continue to consume our lives and livelihoods. My friends, now is not the time for conservatives to abandon the Republican Party. Now is the time to battle for the soul of the Republican Party. I have been in these trenches for many years. I served in the Reagan Administration, in the business world, as Executive Vice President of Focus on the Family under the leadership of Dr. James Dobson, and most recently as National Campaign Chairman of the Gary Bauer for President campaign. I know how high the stakes are. After much soul searching, I have concluded that Gary Bauer, my friend and colleague for 16 years, cannot win. We waged a valiant effort in Iowa. I am very proud of our work. But we must be honest with ourselves. Our efforts, while impressive, were not enough. This is now a race between George W. Bush and Steve Forbes. Gov. Bush is the Whitman/Weld/Wilson establishment candidate. Steve Forbes is the Reagan conservative candidate. Once you realize this, the choice is clear: Steve Forbes is the only conservative who can win and it is time for all conservatives to rally behind him. Today, having resigned my position with the Bauer campaign, I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically endorse Steve Forbes for President. I will do everything I can to help Steve win because I believe that he is the only candidate who can lead our movement into a new conservative century. As a devoted husband and father of five wonderful daughters, Steve is unashamedly pro-life. He will only appoint pro-life Justices and judges. He will choose a pro-life running mate. He agrees that President Reagan was right in making sure American taxpayers do not pay for abortions abroad. He defends the GOP's pro-life plank. He opposes Roe v. Wade. He has a strategy to put abortion on the road to extinction. In his new book, A New Birth of Freedom, he writes: "I'm an optimist....Eventually, I believe we can pass a human life amendment to protect all unborn children. Great social change has happened before in American history, and I believe that it can happen again." As a businessman, Steve is by far the most experienced candidate in this race to expand and deepen American prosperity for all working families and small businesses. He will scrap the tax code, attack government waste and hold the line on spending. He has boldly presented specific details on how to get the job done. As an emerging political leader, Steve has been remarkably successful. In 1996, he stunned the GOP establishment by winning come-from-behind primaries in Delaware and Arizona and landing on the cover of Time and Newsweek. Last month in Iowa he surged from about 3% in the polls to a powerful, 21% second place finish in the straw poll. With the resources to compete and succeed in the front-loaded GOP primaries next year, Steve is without question the only conservative who can go the distance and win. Finally, Steve Forbes understands what the GOP establishment doesn't: the pro-family movement is essential to winning back the White House. If the pro-family movement is abandoned, the GOP will set into motion an electoral exodus that will destroy the GOP and set back the pro-life cause for generations to come. It is time for the pro-family movement to unite behind the one conservative candidate who can win the Presidency and lead us into the 21st century. Divided, pro-family conservatives will never accomplish our goals. United behind Steve Forbes we can fulfill our profound obligation to the unborn and create a new birth of freedom for all Americans. Let us unite and win! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Forbes Gets Bauer Campaign Chairman WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer's national chairman bolted today to the campaign of rival conservative Steve Forbes, declaring that Bauer ``cannot win.'' Charles Jarvis' announcement is a blow to Bauer, who is trying to build momentum from a solid fourth-place showing last month in the non-binding Iowa straw poll. It gives Forbes a major public relations victory in the battle to emerge as the leading conservative in the 2000 campaign. ``After much soul searching, I have concluded that Gary Bauer, my friend and colleague for 16 years, cannot win,'' Jarvis said in a memo circulated by the Forbes campaign. ``We waged a valiant effort in Iowa. I am very proud of our work. But we must be honest with ourselves. Our efforts, while impressive, were not enough.'' Bauer's campaign chairman, Frank Cannon, issued a statement saying the campaign was sorry to see Jarvis leave. ``The Bauer campaign is moving forward with great momentum,'' Cannon said. ``We hope that Charlie can convince Steve Forbes to debate us on the issues soon.'' Since his failed 1996 presidential run, Forbes has re-tailored his message to appeal to conservatives who were wary of his views on social positions four years ago. He is largely a self-financed candidate who lags far behind Bush in public opinion polls. The Iowa straw poll left Forbes and Bauer in the best position to challenge the establishment wing of the party, which is lined up to a large extent behind Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Forbes finished second in the poll. Former Vice President Dan Quayle finished an embarrassing eighth place, and is struggling to keep his campaign alive. Alan Keyes finished ahead of Quayle, but is a marginal candidate. Pat Buchanan is on the verge of bolting to the Reform Party after a poor showing in Iowa. Sen. Bob Smith of New Hampshire had already left the party to mount a third-party race. Jarvis, like Bauer, served in the Reagan administration and has ties to James Dobson's influential conservative organization. In his memo, he criticized Bush' record on abortion and taxes, saying ``This is now a race between George W. Bush and Steve Forbes.'' ``Steve Forbes is the only conservative who can win and it is time for all conservatives to rally behind him,'' it reads. The Forbes campaign said Jarvis will be a non-paid adviser on political strategy, a key to courting social conservatives.