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Jerry Bruno knows all about his Congressman. He can't help it. The retired college professor who lives in Portland, Maine, is not a political junkie or even someone whose money and clout might be worth the attention. But all through the day, he is barraged with information about Republican James Longley. A stranger calls on the phone to praise Longley as a "friend of small business." A radio spot touts the lawmaker's "antigovernment" stands. A TV ad complains that Longley is the victim of "cheap shots" by "Big Labor bosses." Then there's the whole series of anti...
Wolf says she'll stay in contact with voters, and seek clout by campaigning for U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and President Clinton...
PBHA has now vested significant control of its organization in a board that is composed largely of non-students. We agree that granting votes to non-students will give PBHA advantages that it would not have had otherwise, such as greater clout in dealing with the administration. But far more harmful to PBHA's ability to serve its primary purposes is the fact that major programmatic and financial decisions now rest in the hands of non-students, flying in the face of perhaps the primary reason for allowing students to run their own organizations in the first place...
...both local and national levels. But maintaining that momentum may be difficult this year, as many Republicans in Congress fear another election upheaval, this time with them on the losing end. "This is a critical year for the Coalition," says TIME's Richard Ostling. "They have tremendous visibility and clout in the Republican party. The question is whether they can keep it." They have their work cut out for them. After five years of explosive growth, financial contributions to the Coalition declined last year by 12 percent, to $18.7 million from $21.2 million the previous year. And circulation figures...
...religious right that has grown frustrated with teacher-union tactics. Around the country, local officials complain about lengthy, bitter contract fights and union rules that make it nearly impossible to fire bad teachers. In Texas, for instance, a right-to-work state where the teachers' unions have limited clout, it could have taken 2 1/2 years to terminate an incompetent teacher until new legislation was passed last year. In New Jersey, where the New Jersey Education Association contributes more to local and state campaigns than any other organization, battles between the local school boards and the N.J.E.A. often involve hardball...