Jack Kemp

Kemp, a former quarterback and supply-side Republican from Buffalo, worked with Democrats on the 1986 tax reform and, as Housing Secretary under George H. W. Bush, pushed enterprise zones and tenant ownership of public housing with support from urban Democrats. His pitch that conservatives should compete for Black and working-class voters was unusual in his party. Critics on the left argued his enterprise zones delivered little; critics on the right thought his deficit tolerance reckless.