Word: democratically
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...Richard Greenhaus, 65, was a testing engineer for the magazine for 18 years; he left in 1990 because, he says, CR had "changed from an interested consumers' group to a bureaucracy behaving like a branch of government." Greenhaus charges that Consumers Union president Rhoda Karpatkin "is a politically active Democrat" and that CR has changed from conducting disinterested research to promoting a consciously liberal agenda. Says Karpatkin, citing a 1986 letter from Ronald Reagan praising Consumers Union's "competence and impartiality": "I do not engage in partisan politics...
Powell is so free he could even run as a Democrat, but if it comes, a challenge to Clinton in the primaries seems more likely from other quarters. Bob Kerrey, whom Clinton beat in the 1992 Democratic primaries, stung his former rival last November when he declared the G.O.P. stampede a ``severe, sharp and obvious repudiation of the President.'' House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt upstaged Clinton's call for a middle-class tax cut by offering his own plan only two days before the President proposed his--and Gephardt rubbed it in when he said he'd take his orders...
Whenever a Democrat points out that some Republican policy would help the rich or hurt the poor, a Republican invariably replies that the Democrat is practicing "class warfare." The label has been applied lately to Democratic critiques of some of the policies in the Contract with America, like the capital-gains tax cut, the business-depreciation tax cut and the "middle class" tax cut that would apply to incomes up to $200,000 a year. This is supposed to be a damning critique. The implication is that class warfare is a terribly old-fashioned or impolite or downright un-American...
Tennessee Democrat Jim Sasser was a candidate for the Senate floor leadership, before his November defeat at the hands of surgeon and hospital owner Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). Now, he will be leading a study session to discuss the future of the Democratic party...
Roberts faced many political challenges in her one term as governor, from 1990 to 1994. A liberal Democrat, she fought a Republican-controlled legislature over hotly-debated issues such as health care and government reform...