Word: assemblymen
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This year, when all California was reapportioned, 61 state senators and assemblymen became eligible for pension relief. If all 61 decided to retire or were defeated, California's taxpayers would have to pay about $5.7 million for the extra benefits. Retiring Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti, 38, stood to receive $8,742 a year from 1975 on, or $186,384 by the time he reached...
...exceptions. In 21 states, small numbers of student activists operate public-interest research groups, which lobby for education bills in state legislatures and try to influence state politics. For example, New York's group recently published pamphlet-size political profiles of each of the 60 senators and 150 assemblymen who are running for re-election to the state legislature...
...students asked 271 state senators, assemblymen and members of their staffs to sign, and 111 refused, variously dismissing the petition as a dubious proposition, probably illegal, and poorly worded at best. When Governor David Hall was presented with it, how ever, he examined the document quickly, took out his pen and signed at once. He immediately recognized the wording of the petition as the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
...ally). With a party membership of only 300,000, the Communists had attracted 5,500,000 votes, 10.5% of all ballots cast. Gains in local elections have been even more striking; roughly one-third of the population, mostly in the big cities, is governed by Communist-backed mayors and assemblymen. Although the union-backed Socialist Party, with 118 seats, is the largest opposition party in the Diet, the Communists have taken over the intellectual leadership of the antigovernment forces...
...seats in the Assembly. In addition, the regime has strong actuarial reasons for seeking to broaden its base. Of the 2,961 Assembly members chosen at the last election, which was held on the mainland in 1946, many never made it to Taiwan at all; hundreds of other Assemblymen have died over the years. There have been five more deaths since the opening of the current session on Feb. 20, and present membership stands at 1,369, with an average age of well over 65. Several hospitalized members were unable to get to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall just outside...