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Cohen, who described himself as a liberal Democrat, dismissed party affiliations as irrelevant to council proceedings...
...current House Republicans were elected. If Gingrich was the mastermind behind the G.O.P. revolution, Paxon, as campaign-committee chairman, was the one who carried it out. More than a few of today's Republicans owe their jobs to him. Washington State's White, for example, challenged an incumbent Democrat in '94 in a race few Republicans thought he could win, but Paxon steered the maximum allowable amount of campaign-committee money into White's battle anyway. "Bill was there for a lot of us when no one else was," White says now. "That goes a long...
...famous cheese, not its gay activists. That's one reason why Palmer Legare is so unusual. Earlier this year, he founded Cabot's first and only lesbian and gay group and circulated a petition supporting gay rights. Two weeks ago, he discussed gay issues with the state's Governor, Democrat Howard Dean. The other unusual thing about Legare is that he's just 17, and his group meets at Cabot High School...
...chances are there won't be heated protests at the ARCO Forum tonight when Democrat Richard H. Gephardt mars the Harvard campus with his presence. No candlelight vigils are planned, and few students are likely to stand up bearing controversial signs during his speech. He is one of the most influential people in American politics today, and few seem to care what he says or does. Why? Two reasons...
Next year's political model may resemble a 61-year-old businessman named Guy Millner. In 1994, armed with $1.6 million of his own money, Millner jumped into Georgia's gubernatorial race and won the Republican primary before losing narrowly to incumbent Democrat Zell Miller. Two years later, Millner ran for Georgia's vacant U.S. Senate seat--again gaining the G.O.P. nod, and again falling short in the general election. Political wags figured he was finished, or possibly broke--Millner had footed $6.4 million of that campaign's costs. But this summer Millner surprised them and announced his candidacy...