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Cardin emerged as something of a political prodigy in 1966, when he was elected to the Maryland House at age 23. His restrained personal manner is offset by his intensity as a legislator: he co-sponsored the 1995 Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill and supported bills to cap medical-malpractice damages, increase the tobacco tax and deny welfare to children of illegal immigrants as part of the controversial Immigration Reform Bill.
THE ISSUES
Budget NO Medicare NO Defense YES Abortion NO Guns YES Gays NO Bosnia NO NAFTA YES Welfare NO* Medical Leave YES (For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)
QUOTE OF NOTE: "If we truly want to 'reform' Medicare, we should strengthen and improve it in a way that makes good economic and medical sense."
PATRICK MCDONOUGH (R) District 3
BORN: Sept. 12, 1943, Baltimore EDUCATION: Baltimore City College High School, diploma, 1962; U of Baltimore, 1975 FAMILY: Wife, Valerie RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: Maryland National Guard, 1964-65 OCCUPATION: Marketing and communications-group executive; radio-talk-show commentator POLITICAL CAREER: Maryland House, 1977-82 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 24640, Baltimore 21214. Tel.: 410-661-1999
Though he served in the Maryland House, McDonough, who has had it with Washington fat cats, casts himself as a Washington outsider. He says he'll scale back the IRS, offer tax breaks to lower-class and middle-class families, and propose a "serious, tough, effective war against crime and drugs." But running in a traditionally Democratic district against a popular, well-funded incumbent, McDonough may be too outside to get inside.
THE ISSUES
Budget YES Medicare YES Defense NO Abortion NO Guns NO Gays NO Bosnia YES NAFTA NO Welfare YES Medical Leave NO (For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I will fight to keep our military out of unconstitutional foreign missions such as Somalia and Bosnia, plus outlaw U.N. control over U.S. troops."
JOHN KIMBLE (R) District 4 (Inner Prince George's County; Silver Spring)
BORN: May 29, 1960, Bergton, Va. EDUCATION: NR FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Brethren MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Paging-company owner; writer; behavioral researcher POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Republican nomination for Maryland Senate, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1303, Beltsville 20704. Tel.: 301-434-8683
Only an unconventional candidate--he offered to pose for Playgirl if Howard Stern would help him raise $1 million for his campaign--would take on a Democratic incumbent in a district where the G.O.P. is outnumbered nearly 6 to 1. Kimble, an author of books on wolves, proposes a 10-year moratorium on immigration and a plan to exclude the first $10,000 of workers' salaries from taxation.
THE ISSUES
Budget NO Medicare NO Defense NO Abortion NO Guns NO Gays YES Bosnia YES NAFTA YES Welfare YES Medical Leave NO (For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Immigrants have been given preferential treatment. A friend of mine got a $1 million loan from the SBA just because he couldn't speak English. And his kid went to Harvard...because he couldn't speak English. What I want is fairness."
ALBERT WYNN (D) District 4