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Voting as a bloc throughout the combative, five-hour meeting, four School Committee members--Susana M. Segat, E. Denise Simmons, Alice L. Turkel and Nancy Walser--unexpectedly opted to re-establish choice at CRLS next year...
Daschle is keeping an eye on Breaux, who is trying to forge a bipartisan voting bloc called the Senate Centrist Coalition, one of many moderate groups now springing up like mushrooms after a Florida rain. Breaux could pose a threat to Daschle's Democratic unity and to his status as the ultimate go-to Democrat in the Senate--a role Daschle has no intention of relinquishing. "Unless President-elect Bush can develop a working relationship with Tom, he's not going to get a lot out of the Democrats," says New Mexico Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman. That's the message...
...wrote, "suggests that a majority of the Court" believes Bush has "a substantial probability of success." But it may be significant that, unlike the four-person dissent, Scalia's concurrence was signed by him alone. The Democrats are already talking about peeling away a moderate member of the conservative bloc--Kennedy or possibly O'Connor. Until a ruling comes down, those two Justices will be two of the most powerful people on the planet...
...Stenholm defection could cripple Gore, who needs party unity to stay in the game. Few Democrats have the reach of Stenholm, who leads the Blue Dog Democrats, a group of more than 30 conservatives and moderates who often vote as a bloc. "We could lose others if he defects," frets a Gore aide. Stenholm is fielding calls from Gore surrogates, and Bush allies have leaked his name as a possible Agriculture Secretary under Bush, an attractive prospect for a third-generation cotton farmer and ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee. "I addressed him as Mr. Secretary a couple...
According to Plants, the appeal of successful conservative candidates is concrete proposals on student services. But that voting bloc is likely to be split this year, since Barkley is opposed by Paul A. Gusmorino III '02, the chair of the Student Activities Committee and driving force behind successful council projects such as UC Books...