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Show Sunday, October Woman seeks to find Incumbent lawmakers show off local efforts By JIM DRINKARD Associated Press Writer - WASHINGTON At a time when Washington is about as popular as an IRS audit, the incumbent politicians who work there are identifying themselves with the most homegrown of issues as they struggle for political survival. The tactic is particularly important for House Democrats, who face a possibility that their party on Nov. 8 could be swept from control of the chamber for the first time in four decades. So across the map, it is common to see incumbents pointing to local projects they've fund- ed, social security checks they've straightened out and jobs they've protected for hometown businesses. With voter anger boiling over and President Clinton's popularity low, it's one of the few options they have. "Democrats are pretty good at that," said Charles Cook, who publishes a political newsletter. "Democratic candidates tend to fight guerrilla warfare anyway, where they adapt themselves to the local terrain. They've always done that better than Republicans." Some examples: In the Philadelphia suburbs, Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsk- y is making sure everyone knows that she helped get a zip code boundary in east- ern Montgomery County changed to relieve residents of certain sales taxes and higher insurance premiums. House Speaker Thomas is reminding Foley, Spokane voters that he helped push through a bill this year that would help a few hundred Burlington Northern railroad employees in a longstanding tax dispute with Idaho. In Iowa, which suffered devastating floods last year, Democrat Neal Smith talks up the Saylorville Dam, which protected Des Moines from even worse damage. Smith has been in Congress since 1958, and wangled the money for the flood-contrdam through his seniority on the Appropriations ol Committee. The issue helps him counter attacks on pork-barr- el spending from Republican opponent Greg Ganske. Of the three dozen or so incumbents most in jeopardy this year, all but a handful are Democrats. And with Republicans running strong in open-seat those where there is contests no incumbent running protecting incumbents has become vital to Democratic hopes of keeping control of the House. With a current House lineup with one independof could take over the GOP ent, with a net gain of 40 seats. For their part, Republicans also are following tradition, 256-17- Marie Corsa was going through some boxes in her house in Bush-nel- l, Fla., recently when she came California telacross a it and She book. opened ephone found the name and number of an old friend of hers. Finders 8, seeking to give national significance to local races by making them referendums on the sitting president. In the case of Margolies-Mezvinsk- it was a high-profi- y, le national issue that got her in trouble in the first place. She cast the deciding vote last year for Clinton's budget, which included a tax increase on the Americans unpopular along Philadelphia's highest-incom- e wealthy Main Line. So there is comfort in issues like the zip code change, which saves money for those in the part of the district closest to downtown. Car insurance rates declined for some, and catalog orders no longer automatically were hit with certain local sales taxes. "For 25 years people had wanted it changed, and it finally happened," away, and now she and Renfroe call each other every Friday night. "I was delighted that Ann was trying to find me," Corsa said. "It was great to get in contact with her. I can't get over it." Renfroe and Corsa are now busily catching up on a decade of news about each other. "I sent her 10 years' worth of pictures," Renfroe said. "It's been wonderful to talk with her. She remembers all the funny things that happened to us in the past. " Suite 272 816 Auto Mall Road Bloomington, IN 47401 DEAR FINDERS: "I called and left a message on his answering machine," Corsa said. "That night, he called me back and told me he had seen my name in the paper that very day!" The friend had read Finders in the Orange County Register. Ann Renfroe of Anaheim, Calif., had written to Finders to locate Corsa; the two had been close friends for 15 years until they lost touch in 1984. Corsa wrote to Finders right I Rep. Jay Inslee, also has turned to indigenous themes in his campaign, pitching his efforts to increase sales enough to exterminate all dino- saurs would undoubtedly have a major effect on the climatically sensitive crocodilians, but I don't see any evidence for that," said Markwick, a graduate student in geophysical science at the University of Chicago. "The survival of crocs ... says it cannot have been a '' major climate change. Zbi-kows- How to find recently had twin daughters, and I would like my best friend from high school to meet them. Finders is a nationwide column. To find someone, send a short Jeannie Paquin and I were friends at Central Valley High School in Redding, Calif. We letter (200 words or less) to co Suite 272. 816 Auto Mall Road, Bloomington, IN 47401. Include your name, address and phone number as well as the name of the person you are trying to find. Also include a paragraph or two about your relationship and Finders, graduated in 1985, and she went to Provo, Utah, to attend Brigham Young University. Since then, she has lived in Santa Monica, Calif., and Rancho Cordova, Calif., that I know of. The last I heard from her, she was in Sacramento, Calif. I moved out of Redding in 1988, so she doesn't know where I am, someone why vou want to find this person again. All letters become the property of Finders. 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