Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foul weather delayed the day-long anti-trash campaign by 24 hours, but as the sun came out yesterday so did about 2700 residents of 30 communities...
...when soft-spoken Dinkins made the appeal for a unified New York a cornerstone of his campaign, the election fell right into his hands. Dinkins did not represent the radical and highly vocal minority of New Yorkers who wanted to avenge the Bensonhurst murder...
This was the opinion expressed to me at David Dinkins' victory party last week by one of his key campaign workers. He went on about the beautiful mosaic of races which Dinkins represents and about how New York will be reunited once again...
Sure, it was touching, but I realized that because he was a campaign worker, this "mosaic" bit might have been just another campaign-endorsed talking point. I wanted to believe in unity, though it sounded naive in the midst of a tense campaign...
Participants at the press conference said the "Vote for Choice" slogan is particularly offensive because it equates abortion rights and Proposition 1-2-3, even though women--presumably the targets of the campaign-would be most hurt if the referendum caused the supply of rentcontrolled apartments to shrink...