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THE WEEK, Page 14NATIONEt Cetera
DEMOCRACY AT WORK
Forget the balanced-budget amendment. In Breathitt County,
Ky., if you don't get rid of red ink, you go to jail. After
failing to obey a court order to balance the budget by July 1,
three county magistrates were simply thrown in the slammer. The
three had refused to vote for a 1% payroll tax, which state
officials claimed would eliminate the $400,000 budget deficit.
Their suffering coal-mining county could not afford it, argued
the martyred magistrates, who were released four days later after
reluctantly agreeing to the tax.
CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW
During his 13 terms in Congress, Guy Vander Jagt reached the
highest echelons of the Republican Party. But in a primary last
week in Michigan, Vander Jagt was toppled by political neophyte
Peter Hoekstra. Local Republicans complained that Vander Jagt
had lost touch with his constituents because of his party
activities. Said Vander Jagt: "There is a ferocious tide against
incumbents running across the country, and I could not swim
strongly enough to offset it."