Word: clubs
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...main transgression was injecting big-time politics into a small-town local race. "It was always a nonpartisan job," he says. "But with her, the state GOP came in and started affecting the race." While Palin often describes that race as having been a fight against the old boys' club, Stein says she made sure the campaign hinged on issues like gun owners' rights and her opposition to abortion (Stein is pro-choice). "It got to the extent that - I don't remember who it was now - but some national antiabortion outfit sent little pink cards to voters in Wasilla...
...There is certainly a bit of disappointment over the cancellation of some of the festivities, but it was the right thing to do," said Caleb L. Weatherl '10, the immediate past president of the Harvard Republican Club and an alternate delegate from Midland, Texas...
...evening. Shaheen, who is running for senate in New Hampshire, covered a number of domestic and foreign issues in her speech, including the economy and national security. "We need a new economic direction," Shaheen said, whose speech followed NY Sen. Charles Schumer ‘71. "No more country-club economics at the expense of working families and no more tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." Shaheen said that a Barack Obama Administration and Democrat-led Congress should cut taxes for middle-class families and small businesses to jumpstart the economy. Shaheen also called for a change...
...gender issue; your resume isn't as fat as your opponent's, that kind of thing," Palin told TIME last month. "I don't have 30 years of political experience under my belt but that's a good thing. I've never been part of a good-ol'-boys club...
...political experience under my belt ... that's a good thing, that's a healthy thing. That means my perspective is fresher, more in touch with the people I will be serving. I would use that as an advantage. I've certainly never been part of a good old boy club. That I would use in a campaign. And that's been good...