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Article: BRIAN BILBRAY'S HOUSE RACE MAY BE BELLWETHER FOR BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 13, 1998
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Rep. Brian Bilbray is late for breakfast because of a family problem not uncommon on this portion of the country's left coast. His 13-year-old son went surfing without telling his mother.
Father was understanding. He is as at home in a wet suit as he is in worsted. He is a member of - he is a third of - the congressional surfing caucus.
If Democrats are going to gain the 11 seats needed to take back control of the House Bilbray's district should be a battleground. In 1994, the year of Republican wine and roses, he barely won it, 49 percent to 46 percent.
He beat a Democratic incumbent, Lynn Schenk, who, when voting for President Clinton's 1993 ...