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Subject: Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), 4th District<
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 05:01:45 EST
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Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), 4th District<

In 1998, make sure Inglis, 33, has left Congress. He won his
slender 51 to 49 percent victory over incumbent Democrat Eliza-
beth J. Patterson by campaigning as an "outsider" committed to
serving only three two-year terms before returning to South Caro-
lina.

Political reform was the thrust of his campaign in the
northwestern South Carolina district that includes Greenville and
Spartanburg. A lawyer, "he views himself as a citizen statesman,
not a professional politician," according to his campaign
manager, Jeffrey Parker.

Playing the amateur card worked wonders.  Patterson was reelected
with 61 percent of the vote in 1990, and polls as late as October
gave her an 18-point lead. The challenger's task was widely
viewed as impossible. National Republican leaders made so few
visits to the 4th District that Inglis complained of feeling
"lonely." But a strong performance in a televised debate and
75,000 cards left, hotel-style, on doorknobs in the district
raised his profile.

Vehemently antiabortion and against gun control, it was the
anti-establishment themes of term limits and money from political
action committees that Inglis highlighted.

Accordingly, the new congressman-elect has a new sign ready to
pin to the door of his new office: "Notice to all PACs: Remember,
you didn't give me a dime, and I don't owe you a thing."02:47
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