Word: alioto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alioto is accusing Riggs, who largely supported the Contract with America, of guilt by association with Gingrich on Medicare, education, assault weapons and the environment. Riggs is slamming her as a liberal carpetbagger sent by the unions and the White House. One very controversial TV spot fielded by the Riggs campaign linked Alioto, an opponent of the death penalty, with Richard Allen Davis, the murderer of Polly Klaas and probably the most hated man in California...
...national campaign headquarters of both parties have been pouring money and effort into some of the state's close congressional races, like the San Francisco-area battle between Republican incumbent Frank Riggs, 46, a former sheriff's deputy, and Democrat Michela Alioto, 28, a granddaughter of former San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. In recent years the district has been a political toggle switch, going Republican in 1990 with Riggs, who was voted out in '92 and voted back...
Later, Angela Alioto, president of the city board of supervisors, announced plans to change the law so that coffeehouses featuring nonprofessional poets wouldn't need an entertainment permit. And she invited local poets Alan Kaufman and Neeli Cherkovski to hold a reading at city hall. Cherkovski already has a poem he can use. "Taxing poetry," it reads, "is like making clouds pay for passing...