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...Robert Vance, nominee for the Fifth Circuit, is the longtime Alabama Democratic Party chairman; Tennessee's Gilbert Merritt had contributed to Democratic Senator James Sasser's 1976 campaign (as had Merritt's two minor children); Thomas Tang of Arizona has close ties to Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini. Yet even Republicans acknowledge that the nominees have good credentials, and the four trial court judges being moved up-Damon Keith of Michigan, Leon Higgenbotham of Pennsylvania, Hugh Henry Bownes of New Hampshire and Alvin Rubin of Louisiana -are men of qualily...
...Abourezk scoffed, "Ah, he wouldn't do that." Metzenbaum asked Senator Edward Kennedy about the same rumor; Kennedy too expressed disbelief. Mondale, meanwhile, was also busy buttonholing four Senators considered soft in their support of deregulation: Democrats Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Wendell Ford of Kentucky and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona; and Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island. The Vice President told them that the President would see them, one by one, if they wished; all four accepted the offer and were whisked off in waiting White House cars...
...DeConcini, a freshman who favors gradual deregulation of gas, found Carter's sales pitch astoundingly low-key and polite. "Bet you're tired," the President said. Then he went right into his soft, soft sell. "There may be a key vote on this, and the Secretary [James Schlesinger] and I wanted to talk to you a little about it." As the twelve-minute discussion continued, DeConcini explained that he had campaigned in support of deregulation. "Well, I'm against controls too," Carter said. "I'm just in the position of wanting to ease...
ARIZONA. Dennis DeConcini (D) v. Sam Steiger (R): a labor-backed Democrat winning on Barry Goldwater's turf? Could happen...
This divisiveness gave an early lead to Democrat Dennis DeConcini, a former district attorney from the Tucson area. DeConcini has drawn fire from Steiger for his stance in favor of the decriminalization of marijunan, but the Democrat has employed his work as a prosecutor as a countervalent to charges of "liberalism...