Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Saturday was dubbed Perot Petition Day, and volunteers from Massachusetts People for Peort scoured town halls, shopping malls, even dumps to gather signatures to put the business tycoon--who has not yet declared his candidacy--on the ballot. In Cambridge, volunteers hit Harvard , Porter and Central Squares...
Although the petitions ad not yet been tabulated L.A. Tarlin ,Perot's Boston volunteer coordinator said "thousands" of signatures were collected. In Massachusetts signatures of 10,000 registered voters are required for ballot placement...
...April 29, 3 1/2 hours after the verdict in the King case was announced, Gates left his office at about 6:30 p.m. to drive 11 miles to attend a small political fund raiser in affluent Brentwood. The cause was dear to his heart: opposition to a Los Angeles ballot measure that would, at last, make the police chief more accountable to elected officials. Even though Gates claimed he was at the fund raiser for just five minutes (it was closer to 20) and was in communication with commanders via radio and cellular phone, he was at the fund raiser...
...YEAR WHEN AMERICANS ARE KEEN TO THROW the insiders out and vote the outsiders in, women candidates continue to find uncommon success at the ballot box. Last week Pennsylvania Democrats tapped Lynn Yeakel, 50, a Main Line matron with no experience in elected office, to run against Republican Senator Arlen Specter in November. Yeakel, who founded Women's Way, a coalition of charities that raised nearly $2 million last year for a variety of women's causes, jumped into the race after watching the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee grill Anita Hill. "I looked at those 14 men," she said...
...sympathize with urban needs. He notes that black turnout in this year's presidential primaries has fallen off significantly, compared with 1988's. "I think we are in an era of limited choices until such time as we activate our numbers and start taking care of business at the ballot box," he says. "We're sitting on the means of our economic and social liberation and not using the power we have." Some critics point out that poor blacks often go to the polls in record numbers to help blacks get elected, then drop out after receiving little in exchange...