Bush campaign site Includes news, speeches, campaign schedule and volunteer information. Republican Party officials said state Democrats' complaints against Mr. Bush are overwrought and false. Robert Black, a spokesman for the state GOP, said the health-care laws Mr. Bush signed in 1997 have so strengthened patients' rights in the state that the protections have become a model for other state proposals. And Mr. Bush, in a stop in Johnston, Iowa, cautioned against underhanded campaign tactics in the presidential race. There is a danger in the year 2000 of running a negative campaign.
People are sick of it.
Some strategists worry about potential fire from publisher Steve Forbes, a Republican who is using his own fortune to finance his campaign. In the 1996 presidential primary season, Mr. Forbes assaulted front-runner Bob Dole relentlessly. Mr. Bush said he has no indication Mr. Forbes is about to do so again, and said his views on negative campaigning weren't linked to a specific candidate. This site is best viewed using Netscape 4.0 or IE 4.0.