Tim Penny in Stand For Something, by John Kasich


On Tax Reform: 1990s: Quit Congress when Pres. Clinton broke budget promise

Tim Penny was a Democrat from Minnesota whose frustration with Washington politics reached a tipping point when Pres. Clinton proposed a big tax increase with few spending cuts, going against his own campaign promise. Tim had enough with empty Washington rhetoric, so what did he do? He quit, that's what he did. You might think, Well, what in the world did that accomplish? In the short term, probably not a whole lot. The folks in Tim's congressional district lost a good man in Washington, so on the surfac Tim's response to Bill Clinton's about-face actually cost the good people back home, but very quickly Tim took on a kind of folk-hero status--in Congress, in Minnesota, and across this great land. His stature grew enormously, simply because he took a stand. He was disillusioned with Clinton's plan, and with a political system that seemed bound to support it; more to the point, he didn't like how Clinton promised one thing and then went out and did another, so he stood against it.
Source: Stand For Something, by John Kasich, p. 78-79 May 10, 2006

The above quotations are from Stand For Something:
The Battle for America's Soul,
by Rep. John Kasich.
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