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...JOHN ENGLER OF MICHIGAN The Governor, a fav with conservatives, is on the short list; so endorse Dole already...
Gingrich, for example, said retired gen. Colin L. Powell was a top prospect, ignoring daily protests from Buchanan because Powell supports abortion rights. Gingrich also cited Michigan Gov. John Engler and California Attorney General Dan Lungren as "perfect examples of the kind of people who I think would be terrific...
...members of his court in Washington, embedded in the sticky rituals of Congress. They are princes themselves, with their own bite-size kingdoms and outsize egos, used to being in charge. Dole's brigade--George Voinovich of Ohio, Pete Wilson of California, George Pataki of New York, John Engler of Michigan and Thompson of Wisconsin--have a lot in common: they are energetic, well educated, modern and ambitious to a fault. They aren't really sure how much power they have over this process; they don't understand exactly how to use it. But that just gets them talking more...
That night some of the leading players got to take one another's temperatures when they gathered at Chicago's tony Four Seasons Hotel for a Republican Governors Association forum. The draw was rich: Steve Merrill of New Hampshire, Jim Edgar of Illinois, Engler, Thompson and Voinovich, all taking questions and briefing the crowd. Normally it's all policy. Tuesday night it was almost all politics...
...Engler's work on last week's welfare and Medicaid compromise can be seen as a further refinement of that strategy. In January the Governor threw a scare into some true believers by announcing a limited-area research effort called Project Zero. The still sketchy project involves intensive (and presumably expensive) intervention by welfare workers to learn why some people won't work; it includes no time limits, so some thought it signaled Engler's opposition to the congressional Republicans' five-years-and-you're-out philosophy. His fellow Governors knew better. Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson reports that Engler...