His opponent is GOP Secretary of State George Ryan. It's clearly a growth industry. Ga. Business Leaders A group of Georgia business leaders in House Speaker Newt Gingrich's suburban Atlanta congressional district may try to recruit a challenger to run against the 10-term congressman in the July 21 Republican primary. Gingrich won his last two general elections with 58 and 64 percent of the vote, respectively. Doing Their Part for the Economy Lobbyists did a booming business in New York during 1997, according to a state commission that examined special interest spending.
More money is spent on lobbying in New York than in any other state except California.
A purge of dead and former Californians from voter rolls left the state with 7 percent fewer people eligible to vote in the June 2 primaries than were qualified in the 1996 election. For the most part, President Clinton received a warm welcome during his visit to Las Vegas on Wednesday. The one cloud over his meetings with labor organizers was a protest by leaders of five Native American tribes. The protesters met the president's motorcade at the Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship Training Center to voice their opposition to nuclear dumping on tribal land. Clinton waved to them from the rear window of his limousine.