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Article: The biter bit?(David Bonior's movies to unseat Newt Gingrich)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 6, 1995
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Thanks to last November's vote Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House of Representatives and David Bonior was denied the Majority Leader post he had expected to inherit. Bonior was not about to stand for this.
Immediately after the election, he began a campaign to unseat Gingrich. The Wall Street Journal reported that "Involved in the get-Newt effort are about two dozen individuals and organizations, some more actively than others. They include the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House members and aides, political consultants, Common Cause, groups aligned with Ralph Nader, two defeated Gingrich opponents, and the ...