WASHINGTON -- Two more Alabama Republican congressmen and a former state Democratic Party chairman have added their voices to those calling for President Clinton's resignation in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

    U.S. Rep. Bob Riley of Ashland and Rep. Terry Everett of Enterprise both issued statements  Monday urging Clinton to resign.  They joined GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt of Haleyville, who called last month for the president's resignation.

    Joe Turnham, the former Democratic chairman who's now running against Riley in the 3rd District, told a news conference in Montgomery on Monday that Clinton should offer his resignation as a way to heal the nation.

   "The only immediate cure for America's division is resignation of the president and his subsequent reconciliation with the American people over a period of time as a private citizen," Turnham said.

    Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer of Huntsville, one of only two Democrats in the the state's
congressional delegation, has remained silent since Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr released his report on his investigation of the scandal. 

      Cramer, who was due back in Washington today after a week-end of campaigning, has not returned messages from The Times asking for comment.

      The resignation calls by Turnham, Riley and Everett were echoed by hundreds of Alabamians who called House and Senate offices Monday demanding Clinton's impeachment if he does not step down. 

      Laura Cox, press secretary for Sen. Richard Shelby, said more than 500 calls were logged Monday at four of Shelby's six offices in Washington and Alabama with fewer than 25 supporting the president. 

Riley said Clinton should spare the nation the specter of impeachment proceedings and step down "for the good of the American people. 

     Everett accused Clinton of turning his office "into the butt of smutty jokes" and of "splitting
 political hairs to make Americans believe that lying is not lying and perjury is not perjury." 

     Aderholt's call for Clinton to resign came shortly after the president acknowledged in a nationally televised address Aug. 17 that he had an inappropriate relationship with Ms. Lewinsky and had mislead his family, his colleagues and the American people. 

     Don Bevill, Aderholt's Democratic opponent, said through a spokesman Monday that he does not condone Clinton's behavior and believes the president should be subjected to some type of punishment short of impeachment. 

    Rep. Earl Hilllard of Birmingham, a Democrat, also blasted Congress' decision Friday to release independent counsel's Kenneth Starr's sexually explicit report on his investigation of whether Clinton committed perjury and obstruction of justice in trying to hide his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. 

    Rep. Sonny Callahan of Mobile, the dean of the Alabama House delegation, said he reviewed most of Starr's report over the weekend but has reached
no conclusion as to whether the House should proceed with an impeachment inquiry. 

    "There seems to be every indication that the president did commit perjury and did attempt
to obstruct justice," Callahan said. "but we're going to have to let (House Judiciary Committee Chairman) Henry Hyde and his committee determine if the offenses are serious enough to merit either further hearings or impeachment proceedings."

Associated Press
August 28, 1998

Candidate Ad Features Clinton Woes

By DAVID PACE, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) A Republican congressional candidate in Alabama began running television ads Friday calling for President Clinton's
resignation.

Gil Aust, a Huntsville physician whose commercial doesn't even mention that he's challenging four-term Democratic Rep. Bud Cramer, said he's using the ad to introduce himself to voters who he's convinced are
disgusted with Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

"I don't have much name recognition and I think this goes a long way toward showing people who I am and what they can expect," Aust said in a telephone interview. "People here are very conservative, and when you put your hand on the Bible and swear to tell the truth, they expect you to tell the truth."

Aust is the second GOP congressional candidate to use the Clinton scandal in a television campaign ad.  It also has popped up in a flyer
distributed by a Republican congressional candidate in Tennessee, and in a series of radio ads run by the South Carolina Republican Party.

Even before Clinton's televised admission of an inappropriate relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, North Carolina state Sen. Dan Page was airing a TV ad trying to link freshman Democratic Rep. Bobby Etheridge to the presidential scandal.

"And who stands with Bill Clinton even now?" asks the announcer in Page's ad, as pictures of Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky fill the screen.  "Liberal Bob Etheridge ....  Dan Page believes character counts and
morality matters."

Aust, however, makes no attempt in his ad to tie Clinton's troubles to Cramer, a conservative Democrat who has gone out of his way to distance himself from Clinton for the past four years.
 

AUST CALLS ON CLINTON TO RESIGN IN NEW TV AD

HUNTSVILLE -- Republican congressional candidate Dr. Gil Aust today in a new television advertisement called on President Clinton to resign. The ad began airing today on stations in the Huntsville, Alabama media market.

The ad, entitled "Resign", is Aust's first in the general election campaign for the U.S. House seat in the 5th district of Alabama. Aust faces incumbent Bud Cramer (D) in the seat that Covers most of north Alabama.

****Note: Media may contact the campaign for a copy of the ad for broadcast or to request an interview with Dr. Aust.

GIL AUST       TV: 30      "RESIGN"

Audio Announcer: The headlines tell the story ... President Clinton lying to the American people ...

Video: Opens on black and white of Clinton and the capitol .... headlines about scandal begin to float over the screen ...

Audio Announcer: Now, distrust ... four of ten Americans believing the attack on terrorists motivated by the Clinton scandal

Video: Dissolve to black and white of American ships on sea ... Headlines float over which tell of poll immediately after the bombing ...

Audio Announcer: Dr. gil Aust knows our military, our nation deserve better.

Video: Gil walking in plaid shirt ... Dissolves to tanks ... American flag in layered look 

Audio Announcer: Our military deserves a commander in chief our people trust ... 

Video: Large guns on a ship turning ... American flag in layered look ... 

Audio Announcer: our nation needs a President the world respects ...

Video: Presidents Reagan and Bush in layered look with the American flag ...

Audio Announcer: Dr. Gil Aust's message ... Mr. President ... 

Video: Shot of Gil in studio talking and freeze of Gil looking directly into camera ...

Audio Announcer: it's time for you to resign.

Video: Black screen ... while word ... "Resign." 

CAREER POLITICIANS ARE RUNNING FOR CONGRESS TO KEEP A JOB.  GIL AUST IS RUNNING FOR CONGRESS TO DO A JOB.