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Budget NO Medicare NO Defense NO Abortion NO Guns YES Gays YES Bosnia NO NAFTA YES Welfare YES Medical Leave YES (For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Most reasonable gun owners understand that assault weapons have nothing to do with hunting and that law-abiding gun owners have nothing to fear from a waiting period."
NORM DICKS (D) District 6 (West--Bremerton)
BORN: Dec. 16, 1940, Bremerton EDUCATION: U of Washington, B.A., 1963, J.D., 1968 FAMILY: Wife, Suzanne Callison; two children RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Congressional aide POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1663, Tacoma 98401. Tel.: 206-272-5884
Washington's most senior Congressman combines hawkishness on military issues--he is a big supporter of funding for the B-2 fighter--with mainstream Democratic positions on social and economic issues. In a district where magnificent forests pit environmentalists and loggers against each other, Dicks has found a way to address both concerns by securing funds for economic diversification and worker retraining--winning elections in the process.
THE ISSUES
Budget NO Medicare NO Defense NO Abortion NO Guns YES Gays YES Bosnia NO NAFTA YES Welfare NO Medical Leave YES (For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)
QUOTE OF NOTE: "What should American foreign policy and national security look like?...Until you have an answer to the... question, I think it's hard to say exactly what you want out of our intelligence apparatus."
WILLIAM TINSLEY (R) District 6
BORN: March 2, 1931, New Sharon, Iowa EDUCATION: Southern California Graduate School of Theology, Ph.D., 1993 FAMILY: Wife, Elaine; three children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: Air Force, 1948-49 OCCUPATION: Television producer; Christian missionary POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Republican nomination for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 12918 194th Avenue KPN, Gig Harbor 98329. Tel.: 206-884-1067
After spending 20 years as a Christian missionary in Southeast Asia and seeing closed markets there, Tinsley is convinced that free-trade agreements such as NAFTA and GATT are a sham. Important to his forested district, Tinsley wants to loosen government prohibitions on logging, an idea in line with his general philosophy of small government.
THE ISSUES
Budget YES Medicare YES Defense NO Abortion YES Guns NO Gays YES Bosnia YES NAFTA NO Welfare YES Medical Leave NO (For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We've got so much old-growth forest out there, for God's sake, the trees are falling down."
FRANK KLESCHEN (R) District 7 (Seattle and suburbs)
BORN: Feb. 21, 1929, Rockford, Ill. EDUCATION: Northwestern U, B.S., 1955 FAMILY: Wife, Zeita; four children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: Army, 1946-48, 1951-53; National Guard, 1953-55; National Reserve, 1948-51, 1955-89 OCCUPATION: Real estate developer POLITICAL CAREER: Republican candidate for Washington House, 1990 ADDRESS: 5832 Northeast 75th Street, Suite E203, Seattle 98115. Tel.: 206-527-0460