Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Montreal at Carolina...
Politically, the lottery solves a problem that has vexed Southern Democrats for years. The public schools in states like Alabama and South Carolina are badly underfunded and consistently score near the bottom in national rankings. But tax hating is one of the South's cherished pastimes. Carville's epiphany was that if Democrats could portray the lottery as a tax-free way to improve education, government spending could once again become a winning issue. And the Republicans, hostage to the Christian right's antigambling fervor, would be painted into a corner...
...than 330,000 students to college, has in a few short years attained sacred-cow status in the Peach State. The Democratic and Republican candidates to succeed Miller, each of whom once opposed a lottery, practically fell over one another to pledge HOPE's continuation. In Alabama and South Carolina, Democrats Don Siegelman and Jim Hodges both promised scholarship programs virtually identical to Georgia...
...members of the House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans both--the people who make corporate welfare possible. In fact, lawmakers seem to end up on the corporate jets of the very same businesses that contribute to their campaigns or seek regulatory favors. Like Jesse Helms, the five-term North Carolina Republican Senator, who flies about in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. planes and often takes to the floor of the Senate to support the tobacco industry. Under congressional rules, House and Senate members are permitted to fly on company planes if they pay the equivalent of first-class airfare...
...South Carolina, Governor David Beasley (R) didn't have worse enemies than his former friends. Victorious challenger Jim Hodges (D) used testimonials of state Republican officials refusing to vote for Beasley, calling him unscrupulous and a liar. Brutal...