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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1998
Page
6
Joe Hindley serves as President and Publisher while Ken Slaughter is Vice President and Treasurer. Elsen is Editor of Editorial Pages and Mark Bowden holds the role of Managing Editor.
A editorial examines the Hustler publishing provocations led by Larry Flynt targeting Republican figures including Rep. Robert Livingston and others cited for adulterous pasts. It weighs the politics of personal destruction, questions effectiveness, and notes Livingston's resignation while Chenoweth Hyde Burton won re election and Clinton impeachment arguments continue.
Linn County discusses staffing costs and cross county use for the $6.6 million 35 bed Juvenile Detention Center at Walford Road and Sixth Street SW. Current facilities house 18 teens locally with upcharges for outside placements while neighboring counties contemplate shared detention for rising juvenile trouble.
Froma Harrop notes public figures sermonizing on morals stumble in private with Hyde Burton Chenoweth and others exposed. She mocks projection and warns moralizing audiences to own faults while suggesting media and radio figures face scrutiny.
The author argues impeachment parallels between Johnson and Clinton, contending Congress uses technical law violations to topple a president. The piece cites history’s view of Johnson as misguided and praises the senators who spared removal. It criticizes Rep. Leach and calls for constitutional restraint and adherence to treason, bribery, and other high crimes standards.
A reader challenges the Sunday editorial urging resignation, arguing impeachment requires Senate conviction and noting Republicans cannot reach the two thirds needed. The writer contends the Gazette proposes an illegal abuse of power and calls the piece shameless.
Reader Alan L. Light from Iowa City rebukes Republican leaders Bob Livingston Trent Lott Henry Hyde and Newt Gingrich for alleged hypocrisy over impeachment and personal conduct. The letter cites Nixon and Clinton cases, claims about Desert Storm votes, and urges Livingston and Lott to resign.
The Gazette invites letters up to 300 words and requires name street address and daytime phone. Only name and hometown publish. Send to Cedar Rapids Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids IA 52406 or by fax 3985846 or email gazette fyiowa.com.
State Rep. Ron Corbett uses anti welfare rhetoric aimed at convicted drug dealers to attack Gov elect Tom Vilsack and frame a campaign issue. The piece suggests skepticism about the numbers and warns about aggressive anti crime politics and long prison terms.
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