Word: democratically
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Republican consultant Ed Rollins has a way of getting his clients in trouble. At a roast in California on May 15, Rollins, a part-time volunteer for Bob Dole, suggested that California Democrat Willie Brown might run for mayor of San Francisco -- and not Los Angeles -- because Brown didn't want to let "Hymie boys" from L.A. push him around. It was the kind of gaffe that might have paralyzed a fledgling presidential campaign. But at Dole headquarters in Washington, no one came unhinged. Instead, sources told Time, campaign manager Scott Reed telephoned Rollins last Monday and asked...
...Senate Finance Committee voted 12-8 to approve a welfare reform bill that would endAid to Families with Dependent Children-- the federal government's 60-year guarantee to support mothers and children -- andturn it over to the states. Only one Democrat, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, sided with Republicans...
...that the loss of price supports will cause land rents to fall, which will lower the cost of farming and could encourage younger people to get into agriculture. Another is that an end to obsolete limits on production will better position trade-savvy farmers to compete in markets overseas. Democrat Kent Conrad has warned of a "disaster" if the cuts are indiscriminate. But Bill Pietsch, vice president of the North Dakota Farm Bureau in Fargo, a Republican-tilted outfit, puts it this way: "Our people will swear. We expect our Senators to swear. But as these payments are reduced, most...
...state capitol in Concord, New Hampshire, the local press was all over him after his senate appearance. But he was not universally applauded. State senator Burt Cohen, a Democrat, left the chamber in a huff even before Reed spoke. "He [Reed] represents a dangerous trend in this country. We should keep religion and politics separate," Cohen said later. Another state senator, Jeanne Shaheen, a Democratic stalwart, heard Reed out. But she also was offended. She said, "Anytime you paint yourself as having the right answers because of a direct connection to God, that's very dangerous...
Philip R. Sharp, a 10-term Indiana Democrat defeated in last fall's Republican landslide, has been named director of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics...