Bob Smith in The Associated Press


On Principles & Values: Announces bid for Senate in Florida

Former New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith said Wednesday he will seek the seat of retiring Sen. Bob Graham in a race to represent his newly adopted home state of Florida. “I’m going to run a campaign which I basically offer my credentials to the people of Florida, my seniority, my experience in the Senate,” Smith said. “I want to help President Bush. This is a critical state for the president.” Smith, 62, served two terms in the Senate before he was defeated by New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu in last year’s primary. Smith said he would base his candidacy on issues that have long marked his political career: military and veterans affairs, the space industry, and environmental protection such as the Florida Everglades. A social conservative, Smith was frequently at odds with the GOP establishment. He quit the party and ran for president in 1999, saying the Republican platform was “not worth the paper it’s written on.” He rejoined the party a few months later, saying he’d made a mistake.
Source: Associated Press in Bradenton (FL) Herald Dec 18, 2003

On Principles & Values: Exiting race, returning to GOP

Smith said he was folding his presidential campaign, citing the prohibitive cost of running as an independent. Smith said he still believes what he said on leaving the GOP in July. “We won the revolution on issues. We won the revolution on principle,” he told his colleagues then. “But the desire to stay in power caused us to start listening to the pollsters again. I want my party to stand for something,” he said.
Source: David Espo, Associated Press Oct 28, 1999

On Foreign Policy: Create Senate committee to investigate China spying

[Regarding the Cox Report,] Sen. Bob Smith of New Hampshire is urging creation of a Senate select committee to investigate Chinese espionage. “We will get to the bottom of this,” he said. “Nobody in this Senate worth his or her salt should have any objection to that.”
Source: Associated Press, “Republicans on China”, by K. Srinivasan May 26, 1999

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