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Still, acclaim for Reed and his Coalition is far from universal, even within the Republican Party. Senator Arlen Specter launched his campaign for President with a broadside against Reed and his alleged "intolerance." Congresswoman Marge Roukema, a moderate Republican from New Jersey, said flatly, "Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition will create a lot of trouble for the Republican Party." And, in fact, if Reed succeeds too well at moving the party in his direction, he stands to alienate the middle-of-the-roaders, whose votes, while notably absent in Republican primaries, tend to decide general elections...
...influential in the presidential candidacies of Eisenhower and Nixon. Her mother was a fund raiser for George Bush. Her husband and adviser John Whitman is the grandson of a Governor of New York. At least by lineage, she represents the pragmatic and waning Republicanism of Rockefeller. Says Marge Roukema of New Jersey, the ranking Republican woman in the House of Representatives: ``She shows the party must be more broad-based...
...weighed in with their representatives. In a single day, Senator Paul Simon's Washington office logged 1,000 calls. "In 18 years in the Senate," said Senator Patrick Leahy, "I had never seen so many telephone calls, spontaneously, in such a short period." Senator Nancy Kassebaum and Representative Marge Roukema lobbied Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to quash the nomination...
...vetoing bills passed narrowly by the Democratic congressional majority. The FMLA is an example. This bill received vocal support in the House not only from Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Co.) but also from Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and Rep. Marge Roukema (R-N.J.), as well as more than 30 other Republicans. And in the Senate, where the bill passed unanimously, not only Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Ma.), but also Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Kan.) submitted floor statements in support. That these Republicans, among others, would vocally dissent...
Leland's successes came in part because he was hard not to like, and he would not give up. The dashiki he wore in the Texas legislature gave way to Armani suits, the clenched fist to working within the system. After persuading New Jersey Republican Congresswoman Margaret Roukema to join him on a trip to Africa in 1984, Leland got in to see Ronald Reagan, who then agreed to support more foreign food aid and order ships loaded with grain to head for Ethiopia. Leland leaves his wife Alison, who is two months pregnant, a son -- and a world less...