Word: coelho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would she behave in a crisis? Veteran politicians of both parties gave her high marks for handling that crisis with unruffled calm, crisp authority and low-key humor. "She's tough; she put her head down and stuck with it," said Republican Senate Leader Howard Baker. Tony Coelho, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, compared Ferraro to the most successful politician in the U.S. today: "She handled it exactly like Ronald Reagan. Like him, she showed tremendous inner peace." Democratic strategists, jubilant over her performance, intend to encourage Ferraro to take on the heaviest campaign schedule...
...late, for some basic tasks that many Democrats concede still have not been accomplished: coordinating the Mondale and Ferraro campaigns, defining a clear set of issues to be pressed, drawing up a target list of the states in which to campaign hardest. "What is their plan?" asks Congressman Coelho. "I don't know. They don't know, either...
...sure to provide fodder for Democrats planning to use the fairness issue against Republicans in the fall. "You can be sure that if it checks out, we will put a copy of it in the mail to each of our candidates," says an aide to Congressman Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...
...even detected in many cases, the legislation changes nothing. But it allowed Democrats to claim, accurately, that they had voted for prayer in schools. "The public doesn't care about the nuances of what type of equal access or school prayer we voted for," contends Democratic Congressman Tony Coelho of California. "On any issue, it's important to take the sting...
...Among election strategists, the feeling was that the President had won a neat domestic political advantage by removing the issue of the beleaguered Marines from the upcoming presidential campaign. Said Republican Pollster V. Lance Tarrance: "Ronald Reagan has moved from a sitting duck to a moving target." Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, described the redeployment decision as "a genius stroke...