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Emerging as conservative heroes on the Hill, three freshman senators who were elected in Reagan landslide Nov. 1980: Paula Hawkins (Fla.), Mack Mattingly (Ga.), Robert Kasten (Wis.). They were only three Republicans to vote against Robert Dole’s “compromise” tax bill. . . . In the House (see “Blocking Dole,” “The Week”) real storm is brewing with rebellious Republicans telling Minority Leader Robert Michel, Minority Whip Trent Lott, they won’t go along. This effort, report Evans & Novak, is being orchestrated by Jack Kemp with advice from former presidential aides Lyn Nofziger and Martin Anderson. . . . Legislators bemoaning the high cost of government might just look closer to home, says Tax Foundation, which reports the cost of running Congress alone is up 808 per cent in twenty years, an average of $2.3 million a year for each senator and $836,000 for each House member.

In important upcoming races: late Connecticut polls now show Sen. Lowell Weicker (hiss) running about equal with Rep. Toby Moffett now that vice presidential brother Pres Bush has pulled out. . . . In New York, latest Gannett shows Mayor Ed Koch just eight points ahead of Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo; but among Democrats likely to vote in Sept. 23 gubernatorial primary, Cuomo leads Koch by three points. The rhetoric’s kind of fun. Koch calls Cuomo “the last tragic figure. In politics he’s a better Hamlet than Laurence Olivier!” On capital punishment issue, however, Cuomo is one up on Hizzoner. I’m against “electrocution,” he says, heh, heh, Koch is for it. . . . In Illinois big Jim Thompson (remember him: he was the kind of Republican moderate the press boys hinted would be a dark-horse presidential candidate some time back) is running a disastrous 24 points behind former Sen. Adlai Stevenson III in their gubernatorial race. . . . In California, Mayor Pete Wilson and Jerry Brown have agreed to four debates, the last no later than mid-October, because, says senatorial aspirant Wilson, that will give him time to “shoot down” any Brown inaccuracies floated in the debate. . . . Ray Shamie, running against Teddy Kennedy in Mass, (brave man), is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who succeeds in scheduling a debate between him and Teddy. Shamie says Kennedy has never debated a GOP opponent since his first election in 1964. . . . Kennedy camp not at all pleased by two million copies of Every Family Has One [A Black Sheep] that Paul Brown of Citizens Organized to Replace Kennedy is flooding Mass. with. . . . According to Kevin Phillips, that Mass, gubernatorial primary between conservative Democratic Gov. Ed King and former liberal Gov. Mike Dukakis is not going to be the runaway victory for Dukakis that everyone is prophesying.

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Emerging as conservative heroes on the Hill, three freshman senators who were elected in Reagan landslide Nov. 1980: Paula Hawkins (Fla.), Mack Mattingly (Ga.), Robert Kasten (Wis.). They were only three Republicans to vote against Robert Dole’s “compromise” tax bill. . . . In the House (see “Blocking Dole,” “The Week”) real storm is brewing with rebellious Republicans telling Minority Leader Robert Michel, Minority Whip Trent Lott, they won’t go along. This effort, report Evans & Novak, is being orchestrated by Jack Kemp with advice from former presidential aides Lyn Nofziger and Martin Anderson. . . . Legislators bemoaning the high cost of government might just look closer to home, says Tax Foundation, which reports the cost of running Congress alone is up 808 per cent in twenty years, an average of $2.3 million a year for each senator and $836,000 for each House member.

In important upcoming races: late Connecticut polls now show Sen. Lowell Weicker (hiss) running about equal with Rep. Toby Moffett now that vice presidential brother Pres Bush has pulled out. . . . In New York, latest Gannett shows Mayor Ed Koch just eight points ahead of Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo; but among Democrats likely to vote in Sept. 23 gubernatorial primary, Cuomo leads Koch by three points. The rhetoric’s kind of fun. Koch calls Cuomo “the last tragic figure. In politics he’s a better Hamlet than Laurence Olivier!” On capital punishment issue, however, Cuomo is one up on Hizzoner. I’m against “electrocution,” he says, heh, heh, Koch is for it. . . . In Illinois big Jim Thompson (remember him: he was the kind of Republican moderate the press boys hinted would be a dark-horse presidential candidate some time back) is running a disastrous 24 points behind former Sen. Adlai Stevenson III in their gubernatorial race. . . . In California, Mayor Pete Wilson and Jerry Brown have agreed to four debates, the last no later than mid-October, because, says senatorial aspirant Wilson, that will give him time to “shoot down” any Brown inaccuracies floated in the debate. . . . Ray Shamie, running against Teddy Kennedy in Mass, (brave man), is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who succeeds in scheduling a debate between him and Teddy. Shamie says Kennedy has never debated a GOP opponent since his first election in 1964. . . . Kennedy camp not at all pleased by two million copies of Every Family Has One [A Black Sheep] that Paul Brown of Citizens Organized to Replace Kennedy is flooding Mass. with. . . . According to Kevin Phillips, that Mass, gubernatorial primary between conservative Democratic Gov. Ed King and former liberal Gov. Mike Dukakis is not going to be the runaway victory for Dukakis that everyone is prophesying.