Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final day began happily for Moscone, a 15-year political veteran, former Democratic leader of the California senate and father of four children. He was visited in his city hall office by State Assemblyman Willie Brown, a black leader and close friend...
Part of the problem has been chicano political passivity, which includes a hesitancy on the part of many longtime Mexican-American residents to become U.S. citizens, often because, no matter how permanent their ties to the U.S., those to Mexico are even stronger. State Assemblyman Art Torres' own mother could not vote for him in 1974 because she did not become naturalized until the next year. But now, says Ignacio Lozano, publisher of Los Angeles' Spanish-language daily La Opinión, there is "very clearly a political awakening." In 1976 members of Cesar Chavez's United...
...efforts to restore fiscal solvency to New York City and his modest state tax cuts. Though playing up his slight stiffening of the juvenile crime laws, he remained firmly opposed to capital punishment. This is the issue that will be stressed by his G.O.P. adversary, Long Island State Assemblyman Perry Duryea, who expects to attract some normally Democratic votes in crime-ridden New York City...
Many of the bills' sponsors are cancer sufferers or relatives of patients, and fervently believe in Laetrile. New Jersey Assemblyman John Gregorio, whose father has cancer and whose mother and two uncles died from it, takes regular doses of the drug...
Politicians have been quick to recognize a test whose time has come. Says California State Assemblyman Leroy Greene: "When a youngster gets out of high school, I expect him to be able to read a newspaper article, tell me what it said, and write me a couple hundred words on it in proper English." Adds Alabama State Senator Bill King, who has just introduced a minimal competency bill: "Taxpayers see so much money going into education yet producing students without basic skills. Legislators want to account for all of that money...