Word: democratic
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...like this," says Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, a "smart growth" Democrat who was elected last year. Barnes has proposed a regional transportation authority that can block local plans for the new roads that encourage development. But dumb growth is not confined to Atlanta. Half a century after America loaded the car and fled to the suburbs, these boundless, slapdash places are making people want to flee once more. "All of a sudden, they're playing leapfrog with a bulldozer," says Al Gore, who wants to be the antisprawl candidate...
...partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, whose passion for local politics helped land him his current position. Tabas was running as a Republican for a city-council seat in 1991 when the chairman of his current law firm, Marvin Weinberg, a staunch Democrat who was backing Tabas' opponent, took notice of his vigorous, well-endorsed campaign efforts. Weinberg ultimately lured Tabas away from his job at another law firm. "I love the thrill of politics and how much you can do to help people while you are in political office," says Tabas, who lost...
...Even though I'm a Democrat, I agree with Ford one hundred percent. Moderation needs to be found," said Preston B. Golson...
...Democratic lineup for 2000 tightened considerably on Monday. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt endorsed Vice President Al Gore for the presidential nomination, leaving the only other declared Democrat, Bill Bradley, to mine ever-shrinking political terrain. "The Gephardt endorsement makes Gore look even more formidable than before by shoring up the centrist vice president's connections to the liberal wing of the party," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson. Add to the mix Gore's "incredible fund-raising operation" and the "Democratic nomination looks like even more of a slam dunk for Gore," says Dickerson...
Having already agreed to Clinton's insistence that 62% of each year's budget surplus be set aside for Social Security, many G.O.P. members fear that pushing an across-the-board income-tax cut could lead to disaster as Democrats bash them for favoring the rich (who would benefit most from such a cut). So moderates have lined up behind a far less ambitious package of targeted, Clinton-style tax breaks crafted by Connecticut's Nancy Johnson. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who only two weeks ago was flogging the 10% cut at a town-hall meeting in Michigan...