Saturday, January 30, 1999
Bauer expected to announce presidential bid
Newport native on TV Sunday
BY PATRICK CROWLEY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Newport native Gary Bauer is expected to announce Sunday morning that he will seek the Republican nomination in next year's presidential race.
Mr. Bauer, 52, recognized as one of the nation's leading spokesmen and advocates for socially conservative causes and issues, will make the announcement on NBC's Meet the Press news talk show.
The program will be broadcast locally on WLWT Channel 5 at 9 a.m. Sunday.
A spokesman for Campaign for Working Families, Mr. Bauer's Washington-based Political Action Committee, said Friday that Mr. Bauer will appear with host Tim Russert ""to discuss his future political in tentions.”
Mr. Bauer has made recent moves to indicate he will seek the party's nomination next year, including stepping down as head of Washington's conservative Family Research Council.
Mr. Bauer told The Cincinnati Enquirer two weeks ago that his decision would be at least partly based on how he was received at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
Mr. Bauer finished first in a straw poll at the conference, ahead of other possible GOP candidates, including Texas Gov. George W. Bush, publisher Steve Forbes, former Red Cross head Elizabeth Dole, commentators Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes, and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
“I feel a tremendous vacuum in American politics,” Mr. Bauer said in a recent interview. “I think the average families in the middle class ... continue to get the short end of the stick in that political elites in Washington just don't seem to have much in mind that is relevant to the struggles of everyday families.”
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