Word: coelho
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Wright, who turns 64 this month, will have formidable help among the House leadership. Succeeding him as majority leader is former Majority Whip Tom Foley, 57, of Washington. Replacing Foley as whip will be Tony Coelho, 44, of California...
...Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, suggests a more general use that Democrats may make of the study. Giving his party's reply to one of Reagan's Saturday radio talks, Coelho spoke of a "populist revolt brewing" in the heartland. He added, "Nobody in the Administration pays attention as they fly over central America on their way from one coast to the other." That line hardly seems likely to go over in coastal states, but it could stir angry echoes inland...
...Tony Coelho (D-Calif.), head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told reporters that calls to his California district office were 5-1 against Reagan...
...Facilitator" Canzeri puts on charitable events to burnish corporate images, like a celebrity tennis tournament that drew scores of Washington lobbyists and netted $450,000 for Nancy Reagan's antidrug campaign. Lobbyists, not surprisingly, work hard not just at re-electing Congressmen but also at befriending them. Congressman Tony Coelho of California describes the methods of William Cable, a former Carter Administration aide who lobbies for Timmons & Co. "Three out of four times," says Coelho, "he talks to you not about lobbying, but about sports, or tennis--I play a lot of tennis with him--or your family...
...with bringing jobs to east Texas." Later analysis suggested that many voters were bothered less by Hargett's stand on trade than by a feeling that he might not be especially bright, but at the time Democrats were convinced they had hit political pay dirt. Said California Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "The issue is there. Texas One (the First District) proved that." More than a few Republicans suspected that the Democrats could very well be correct, politically if not economically. Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney, a member of what he described as "a small...