Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1994 TAG: 9410120093
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: BRIAN KELLEY
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Short
Fast brought former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp to Blacksburg Monday to raise money. Tuesday night, Allen appeared with Kemp at the Claytor Lake home of Radford lawyer Jimmy Turk. The governor stopped at the New River Valley Airport for a brief news conference before heading to the fund-raiser.
"He shares our principles and ideals," Allen said of Fast. "Steve understands that you just can't have all these bills loaded down with pork-barrel spending."
Allen served in Congress for a year until losing his 7th District seat to redistricting in 1992.
Allen declined to rate incumbent Rep. Rick Boucher's effectiveness as a House member but noted their political differences. "We have a clearly different philosophy of government," Allen said.
Allen pointed to June 1992, when a Republican-favored balanced-budget constitutional amendment reached the House floor. Allen voted for the measure, Boucher against it. (Boucher favored a Democratic version of the amendment and said the Republican version threatened Social Security and Medicare benefits for thousands in Southwest Virginia.)
"I think the vast majority of the people in the 9th District and clearly in Virginia support the constitutional amendment for a balanced budget and the president having a line-item veto," Allen said.
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