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...candidate won a big race without a media consultant who understood creative advertising and how it influences news coverage. BOB SQUIER was the best of the best. He knew it wasn't just the times but how we pass through those times that matters. Bob was a Democrat through and through. He believed in his candidates and in his own ability. His personal confidence, transferred to an unsure candidate, often proved the margin of victory...
...ambassador under Reagan. "This was a period when adversarial relationships were central to our international relations." Between that ambassadorship and the beginning of his career as a presidential long shot, Keyes worked as assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration. He then twice challenged an incumbent Democrat for a Maryland senate seat--yet another improbable quest. "He had no deep roots anywhere in particular," Lichenstein says. Keyes, an army brat, spent his childhood in various cities and towns across the country, wherever his father was stationed, and eventually graduated from high school in Texas. "When he began running...
...this is Capitol Hill, and nothing is ever as simple as "too many people are using the present laws to stiff MasterCard - let's be fair and do something about it." Instead, the final bill was chock-full of politically charged amendments, the most notable of which were a Democrat-sponsored $1 minimum wage hike over three years and a provision to prevent abortion clinic protesters from hiding behind bankruptcy filings after losing civil suits. An attempt by the Democrats to strip gun manufacturers of bankruptcy protection failed...
...according to James Stigliano, a local Democrat who Salzmann helped in a failed bid for a spot on township committee, Salzmann wasn't an average liberal even in high school...
...Given that community service is an essential part of being an effective and committed Democrat, the College Democrats have traditionally incorporated community service projects into our agenda," says Richman...