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...Brad was old enough togo to school, but she had a passion for politicsthat would be passed on to her son. so the firstcandidate Brad Campbell ever campaigned for was aDemocrat. When brad turned 3, his mother becamethe local campaign chair for Jerry Litton, aconservative Democrat running against RepublicanJohn Danforth. Joan took Brad on the road, as sheput up signs and knocked on doors around thecounty...
After a victory in the Democratic primary, thecampaign ended tragically when Litton was killedin a plane crash. With him died some of Joan'spassion for politics. "The crash is the onlyreason Danforth won," Joan says...
Lawmakers still regard talk of reforming the system as the supreme act of political recklessness. A detailed program was recommended last year by Senators Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, and John Danforth, a Missouri Republican (since retired), who were appointed by President Clinton to head a bipartisan commission on entitlement reform. Their plan called for raising the retirement age to 70, cutting the benefits of upper-income retirees, and recalculating the Consumer Price Index...
Kerrey and Danforth's principal idea was to slash the worker's share of the Social Security tax from 6.2% to 4.7% (the employer's share would remain the same), but require workers to invest the tax money saved in iras or 401(k)s. Future Social Security pensions would also be reduced to reflect the drop in taxes. In a superb example of the political cowardice that blocks any change in Social Security, Kerrey and Danforth could not even get the backing of their own commission. They had to submit their plan to the White House on their...
...five juveniles were transferred to the Department of Youth Services, according to Nancy Danforth, a probation officer for Cambridge juvenile court