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Another cause of the executive committee's reluctance to anoint Franklin may have been his run-in with the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a self-policing organization his father helped found. In 1992 the council suspended Samaritan's Purse while it looked into Franklin's compensation and use of the company plane. Word leaked to the National Enquirer, which purported to quote Billy saying Franklin was "going to destroy what I've worked for years to build." Franklin pulled out of the council, calling its members "crummy little evangelical busybodies" who were "jealous of me." Two years later...
...addition to selecting the gubernatorial and senatorial nominees, Cambridge voters will anoint candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, U.S. representatives, Governor's Council members, state legislators, district attorney, clerk of courts, register of deeds and county commissioners...
...voters that Terry's Democrats were treating the Governor's mansion as a virtual hereditary monarchy; he won by a lopsided 17 points to complete one of the most amazing turnarounds ever. In a less noticed but important contest, Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit for 20 years, sought to anoint Sharon McPhail as his successor; she was buried under a 12-point landslide by Dennis Archer. Further underlining their anti- incumbent mood, voters in Maine, New York City and nearby Suffolk County enacted term limits for officeholders, including Mayor-elect Giuliani, while New Jerseyites passed a referendum that will give...
CRAB (The Committee to Re-Anoint Bush). Considered too regal and, uh, pinched...
There was even then the unshakable feeling that Reagan had accomplished what no other President since Andrew Jackson had done: inspire enough affection for himself, and respect for his policies and presence, to anoint his successor. Jackson did it for Martin Van Buren, Reagan for George Bush...