Word: democratic
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...confiscatory 94%. Among those offended: a movie actor named Ronald Reagan who had just begun to earn big bucks. His anger at discovering that he could keep less than a dime of each additional dollar he earned played a part in his postwar conversion from New Deal Democrat to conservative Republican...
...proposal was co-sponsored by Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater and Oklahoma Democrat David Boren, one of three Senators who accept no PAC funds (the others: Democrats William Proxmire of Wisconsin and John Kerry of Massachusetts). It limits House aspirants to a total of $100,000 in PAC money for each election cycle. Senate candidates could accept from $175,000 to $725,000, depending on the size of their state, and all candidates could take an additional $25,000 if involved in a primary campaign. A PAC could give no more than $3,000 to a candidacy, vs. the current...
Michigan Republicans last week also selected a candidate for Governor: William Lucas, who is black, Roman Catholic and a former policeman and FBI agent. While still a Democrat, Lucas was elected sheriff and then, in 1982, executive of populous (2.2 million) Wayne County, which includes Detroit. He switched parties 15 months...
Lucas is the second black to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat, lost in California four years ago, but is trying again this year. (The nation's only black Governor: Pinckney % Pinchback, who was Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and served for a month when the incumbent was impeached in 1872.) Lucas, an outspoken and articulate conservative, will face a tough race this November against Democratic Governor James Blanchard...
Mindful of his father's injunction that "great wealth is an obligation," Harriman became a Democrat in 1928. In 1952 and 1956, he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination, in part because he could think of no one more qualified to head the nation in an international age. A wooden speaker, he was elected Governor of New York in 1954, but failed to win a second term when he was challenged by Republican Nelson Rockefeller, a millionaire with a more common touch...