Word: deconcini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DENNIS DECONCINI (1994). The Arizona Democrat's approval rating has never quite recovered from his damaging association with the S&L king. He will hang on only if there is an outbreak of amnesia...
...from serving longer than three years in any six-year period. More recently, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower advocated a cutoff, as did the 1988 Republican Party platform. First-time candidates, too, often warm to the notion, but most back off after election. For addiction to office, Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini takes the prize. A staple of DeConcini's successful 1988 campaign for a third six-year term was his claim that he could better fight for a twelve-year limitation if he was in the Senate for 18 years...
...called its retirement communities -- is the state that said no to daylight saving time, turned its back on the Martin Luther King holiday and was the last to come around on Medicaid and the interstate highway system. It is home to two-fifths of the Keating Five (Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain), to Barry Goldwater (considered left of center by many natives), and to the nation's first impeached Governor in 59 years, Evan Mecham. It is not a place for the politically faint of heart...
...When you were asked whether the money you contributed to the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Reigle, John Glenn and John McCain -- influenced them to help you, you said, "I certainly hope...
...When they targeted him, it boomeranged," says Schaefer's former press secretary, Bob Douglas. Some of the N.R.A.'s legislative allies have also been put off by the group's habit of turning upon old friends for a single departure from gospel. Arizona Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, a longtime N.R.A. supporter, is now targeted in N.R.A. literature because he sponsored one of several bills before Congress that propose to ban assault rifles...