From: AdmrlLocke@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 6:19 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: GrammNet: Buchanan Brigades For Forbes!;Forbes Up in Iowa Poll;BauerLoses More Staff GrammNet Issue 9/22/99 Dear Friend, Last week it was Gary Bauer's National Campaign Chair who resigned and endorsed Steve Forbes as the only conservative who can beat George Bush Junior. This week, as you'll see in the third item below, Bauer has lost yet more staff. More importantly, as you'll see in the second item below, members of the Buchanan Brigades are dumping Patrick Beltway Buchanan and endorsing Forbes too! Conservatives finally are coming to their senses and uniting behind Forbes. It remains to be seen whether enough conservatives have come to their senses to allow Forbes to beat Bush, but the latest polling data from Iowa, contained in the first item below, show that Forbes clearly has broken out of the pack and become the main rival to Bush Junior. Remember that media polls tend to have a built-in liberal bias of anywhere from ten to fifteen points. A poll taken solely of Republicans, however, probably has more like five to ten point bias, indicating that Forbes my well be right behind Bush Junior. The poll also indicates that Bush has picked up even more of the mushy moderate vote--his seven-point increase over the last poll almost exclusively consists of the four points lost by Elizabeth Dole plus the two points abandoned by Lamar Alexander when he left the race. Sadly but not surprisingly, in Iowa at least the moderates have coalesced to a large degree around Bush Junior, the candidate of the liberal media and Republican establishment. Yet if more conservative voters currently supporting good conservative candidates like Bauer and Dan Quayle would only abandon the noble but futile candidacies of these two men and unite behind Forbes, we conservatives can beat Bush Junior. So I'd like to make a personal, heartfelt plea to Mr. Bauer to join Steve Forbes. You have fought the good fight, Mr. Bauer, but you simply cannot win. You can, however, nibble away at Forbes' support, ensuring that Bush Junior wins our nomination. On the issues most important to you, like protecting the right to life, you and Mr. Forbes agree substantially if not completely. On most other issues you share a similar if not identical vision. As the distant but still second-ranked conservative candidate in the race, you could play a valuable role in getting more conservatives behind Forbes and giving him the boost he needs to overcome Bush Junior. Mr. Bauer, you know that Forbes is an honest, principled conservative, and a good family man who has raised a happy, prosperous and moral family. You need only look at Forbes with his wife and daughters to see a living example of family values. I urge you to follow the sterling example of your principled friend and former National Campaign Chair, Charles Jarvis: abandon your own candidacy and endorse Steve Forbes for the Republican nomination. 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. GrammNet back issues available at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3390/ ------------------------------------------- IOWAPULSE.COM New Iowa Poll Republicans George W. Bush..38 percent (+7%) Steve Forbes....16 percent (+5%) Elizabeth Dole..7 percent (-4%) John McCain.....4 percent (+2%) Gary Bauer......4 percent (+1%) Dan Quayle......3 percent (-1%) Alan Keyes......3 percent (+1%) Pat Buchanan....1 percent (-3%) Undecided.......24 percent (-5%) Democrats Al Gore.........52 percent Bill Bradley....28 percent Undecided.......20 percent The poll was conducted Sept. 11-13 by the Mellman Group in Washington, D.C. It has a 5.7 percent margin of error. 600 "likely" Iowa caucus goers were surveyed. For more information, please see www.Iowapulse.com ------------------------------------------------- More Members Of 'Buchanan Brigade' Bail Out 6.28 p.m. ET (2233 GMT) September 21, 1999 WASHINGTON - As presidential candidate Pat Buchanan moves toward leaving the Republican Party for the Reform Party, cracks are starting to appear in his "Buchanan Brigade.'' Tuesday, four days after Bob Adams quit as Buchanan's communications director, saying, "I'm a Republican,'' Scott Bell resigned as Buchanan's South Carolina field director and endorsed Republican presidential rival Steve Forbes. Adams left Buchanan without a job. Bell signed up with Forbes. He was given the job of bringing more South Carolina Buchanan backers into the Forbes camp, according to a statement by the Forbes campaign. Two other longtime Buchanan supporters Tuesday also endorsed Forbes: New Hampshire State Sen. Pat Krueger and Greenville, South Carolina, businessman Hank Harrison. Buchanan, making his third White House bid, has said he will announce a decision by the end of this month whether he will bolt the Republican Party for the Reform Party. Krueger, who was a Buchanan delegate at the 1996 Republican National Convention, will serve as chairman of Forbes' New Hampshire finance committee, the Forbes campaign said. Harrison, who supported Buchanan's 1992 and 1996 White House bids in South Carolina, will become a member of Forbes' National Steering Committee, the campaign said. Buchanan conceded last week that his troops are "deeply divided'' about his anticipated move to the Reform Party, but said most are supportive. Harrison, in a statement released by the Forbes campaign, said, "Events in recent weeks have caused many of Pat's most loyal supporters to rethink their support and look at their options.'' IOWAPULSE.COM --------------------------------------------------- This is the lead story on National Review's web site (www.nationalreview.com) BAUER POWER DRAIN? A Bauer staff exodus since the Iowa straw poll has fed rumors among Christian conservatives of a campaign in disarray. It isn't just the high-profile departure of the campaign's national chairman, Charles Jarvis, that the Bauer camp has had to weather, but the departure of several others, including one staffer who has worked for Bauer for 15 years. "Since Ames we've lost six or seven people in the Washington office," says campaign manager Frank Cannon. He downplays the significance of the departures, saying that all but Jarvis were low-level staffers and that the campaign has picked up "eight or nine people in the states." He says of the campaign's field organization, "It's growing, it's vibrant, we haven't been slowed down a day by this." Whatever the reasons for the departures - strategic differences, demoralization, egos - they come at a bad time. By rights this ought to be Gary Bauer's moment: Pat Buchanan is poised to bolt the Republican Party, Dan Quayle's campaign is foundering, and only Steve Forbes - who's being encouraged to run for the Senate - stands between Bauer and recognition as the conservative standard-bearer. So why all the departures now?