Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return the party has made life very difficult for Lindsay. The Mayor does not have any Republican he can rely on to represent his intrests in either the Assembly or the City Council, both of which are overwhelmingly Democratic. This makes it very difficult for him to pass even slightly controversial programs. In several instances the Mayor has had to ask a sympathetic Democrat to introduce his legislation...
...Queens party. It is easier for him to control the present sixteen-member committee which meets once a month, than an active club with a large potentially-active membership. "If you can't prove that your family has been Republican for at least two generations, they consider you a Democrat. They would rather see their candidate lose at the polls than see their leadership challenged", one Lindsay aide said...
...does not present himself," intoned his attorney last week, "until it is determined that Congress is ready to swear him in." The House of Representatives was never less ready to seat Adam Clayton Powell, despite his re-election in Harlem April 11 by a 7 to 1 margin. Arizona Democrat Morris Udall, one of those urging Powell's reinstatement, conceded: "There are fewer votes for him now than there were on March 1," when his peers voted overwhelmingly to bar him during the life of the 90th Congress...
Mavericks & Machismo. Bravo vivified the "Viva Kennedy!" drive in 1960, which helped win the state for the Democrats against Native Son Richard Nixon. And in 1966, it was Bravo who led the defection from Democrat Pat Brown's camp: Ronald Reagan drew 24% of Los Angeles' Mexican-American vote, thus tripling the usual G.O.P. total. Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel does even better in Latin neighborhoods, thanks to his excellent command of Spanish. But the man who wins Mexican-American backing most consistently and heartily is Democrat Sam Yorty, whose maverick manner as mayor of Los Angeles appeals...
...country is on the verge of civil disobedience if the Vietnam war continues on its present course," the Rev. Richard E. Mumma, preacher to the University, said at a Young Democrat-sponsored meeting on Vietnam...