Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner issued a statement, mourning the loss of Jack Kemp.
He writes:
“Jack was a ‘bleeding-heart conservative.’ He wanted to make it possible for every American to succeed and eagerly worked with people of all races, colors and creeds toward that end.
“Across-the-board tax cuts and ‘enterprise zones’ for blighted neighborhoods are now common economic prescriptions – especially during these hard times. But to make these ideas respectable, Jack had to fight for them constantly during his years in Congress, as Housing and Urban Development secretary, as chairman of a national tax reform commission, and during his presidential and vice presidential campaigns.
“He won those fights, and millions benefited. The tax cuts that Jack helped engineer in the 1980s gave Americans unprecedented prosperity for decades. His commission also boldly proposed a national flat tax. Those policies also helped spread freedom around the world.
Jack Kemp supported projects and helped fight to empower low-income residents in Milwaukee, through housing initiatives and school choice programs.
He visited the city and highlighted the good work being done in Milwaukee.
It's unfortunate that Milwaukee's media aren't making the effort to dig a little and document the local angle on Republican Kemp's legacy to help those in need pull themselves out of poverty and have a better life.
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