Word: ballots
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...Bill Clinton's long-range deficit-cutting program of hefty tax increases and spending cuts. The 64 freshmen Democrats in the House rebelled. The public, they insisted, has turned so strongly in favor of cutting spending that they dared not vote for any increases before casting at least one ballot in favor of later cuts...
...have to dig deeper into my pockets in the near future," says Sherwin Eisman, the Republican mayor of middle-class Huber Heights (pop. 40,000), near Dayton. He fears that additional federal taxes will inspire local voters to reject any attempts to raise local levies, including a May ballot proposal to raise the city income tax from 1% to 1.25% for additional fire and police services. He says, "People tell me that they are sick and tired of taxes...
This is unfair, Ballot fraud and illegal voting are serious issues that should be addressed, but they simply are not related to Beys. The staff's legitimate disagreement with Beys' "old ideas of high-profile, high-risk, disaster-prone concerts and social events" does not give the staff a reason to dump all over the Council and the new chair, linking him to corruption that he is not even involved in. The staff should wait to see how the new chair and the Council perform this semester rather than using this election as a chance to take cheap shots against...
...posters won't help when the campus is scoffing at council members' behavior. Certainly, that behavior has not all been Beys' fault. Last fall, an already beleaguered council sank into absurdity when Maya G. Prabhu '94--who narrowly defeated Beys in the fall vice-chair election--resigned over ballot fraud...
...driver, a banker, two millionaires, a disabled veteran, a railroad worker, a retired policeman, a plumber and an actor-tax preparer. The leading contenders include city councilman Mike Woo, state assemblyman Richard Katz and lawyer Richard Riordan. The biggest problem: fitting all the names on the ballot, which comes in seven languages...