Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sharpe, a Navy lieutenant in the Gulf War and the son of a 28-year Air Force veteran, appeals to Florida's veterans. But the district's blue-collar population and ethnic mix create a constituency that lacks the political cohesiveness of other Florida districts. But with the endorsement of former G.O.P. presidential hopeful Steve Forbes, Sharpe has created an "eight-point tax-simplification plan" that may win supporters from all sides...
...only 4% of the vote. This year Tierney is counting on the added support of the district's labor unions. He promises to stop "corporate welfare," reward companies that are good to employees, and fight balanced-budget plans that take entitlements and quality public education away from blue-collar voters. He's pro-environment and vows vigilance on the Clean Water, Clean Air and Clean Harbor acts...
Fitzsimmons, who resigned last year as president of University Microfilms International in Ann Arbor, had the connections and capital to mount a credible campaign against incumbent Lynn Rivers. Yet like her, he advertises his blue-collar origins--he is a butcher's son--to woo the district's autoworkers. Fitzsimmons paints himself as a hard-nosed businessman who will get results, but he will have to fight hard for the influential working class...
Though this district leans Republican, a solid base of blue-collar Democrats and an enclave of wealthy liberals make Forbes vulnerable. But he retains his conservative base with proposals to end parole for armed criminals and grant middle-class tax breaks. On the Armed Services Committee he has fought for defense-conversion jobs to ease the pain of military-contract cutbacks...
...supporter of the Contract with America, Ney proved to be less conservative than many of his G.O.P. freshman classmates. He supports environmental regulation, for instance, and considers himself "sympathetic to labor," both positions consistent with his district's blue-collar, Democratic traditions...