The Nation - News from Jan. 15, 1989
The Democratic loser in November’s 4th District congressional race and a Republican mayoral aide were nominated in Ft. Wayne, Ind., to run in a special election in March to succeed the man filling Vice President-elect Dan Quayle’s Senate seat. Republicans took seven ballots to nominate Ft. Wayne public safety director Dan Heath for his party’s nomination. Heath, who also serves as aide to Mayor Paul Helmke, defeated eight candidates in voting by GOP precinct committee leaders. Democratic Party leaders in the district selected Jill Long, a former council member in Valparaiso, by acclamation. In 1986, Long lost the U.S. Senate race to Quayle. The 4th District seat, one of Indiana’s 10 House seats, has been vacant since GOP incumbent Dan Coats resigned after then-Gov. Robert D. Orr selected him to replace Quayle as Indiana’s junior senator.
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