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 Thursday, June 10, 1999 Politics 2000 Notebook AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. George W. Bush said Tuesday that he would have voted to impeach President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. “I would have voted for it. I thought the man lied,” he said in response to a question posed during a news conference. Bush, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, didn't call for Clinton's impeachment last fall, when the House approved articles of impeachment, or earlier this year when the Senate voted to acquit him. “I didn't talk about it during the time because I thought the House and Senate members could make up their minds,” Bush said. “I did say it was an embarrassment, and I did say it was important to blow the whistle on not telling the truth.” ——— DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Opening his Iowa campaign office, Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan was clearly cheered by the prospects of yet another battle with a member of the Bush family. Texas Gov. George W. Bush is ahead in the polls for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000; Buchanan ran unsuccessfully against President Bush, the Texas governor's father, in 1992. “We challenged King George as we called him in '92 and we think we're going to have to go up against the Prince of Wales in 2000,” Buchanan said Tuesday. “I think it's going to get down to a Buchanan versus Bush contest again.” Buchanan finished second in Iowa's precinct caucuses in the last election cycle, and went on to win the New Hampshire primary before fading from the race. “The difference is the folks in Iowa didn't really know who I was,” said Buchanan. “I think we won their hearts and this time we start with a lot of good will out there. I think we've got a base this time that we did not have last time.” ——— ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's senior state legislator, breaking Tuesday with the state's Republican leadership, endorsed Sen. John McCain's bid for the GOP presidential nomination. “Senator McCain has the character, the courage and the credentials necessary to lead this country,” state Sen. John Marchi of Staten Island said. Marchi's announcement came 15 days after Gov. George Pataki was joined by former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and dozens of other party luminaries as he endorsed Texas Gov. George W. Bush's bid for the White House. While Marchi attended that Pataki-led event, an aide said that was simply as a courtesy to the governor and did not signify that the Republican state senator was backing Bush. “As a combat veteran of World War II service, I have great respect for Senator McCain's record as a Navy pilot in Vietnam and his courageous leadership of prisoners of war held in the infamous `Hanoi Hilton,'” Marchi said. Marchi, who has served in the state Senate since 1957, can be something of a maverick. He is a former chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, but has lost influence in recent years in part because of his refusal to quickly fall in line with changes in the state's GOP leadership. ——— EDITOR'S NOTE — Associated Press reporters Michael Holmes and Mike Glover contributed to this report. |
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