Word: democratics
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McGovern's image appears responsible for the panel's emphatic reactions to the campaign-and that image is detrimental. Almost half of the Democrats and independents who now plan to vote for Nixon say that it would have been much harder for them to do so had a Democrat other than McGovern been nominated. Moreover, half the panelists who until recently were not sure how they would vote now indicate that they have made up their minds, and three out of four of these have decided to vote for Nixon. Says Judy Johnstin, a teacher in Lansing, Mich...
...evils. But pity the voters of Elizabeth, N.J., where four candidates are running for mayor. One hopeful, Republican Matthew Nilsen, was indicted by a county grand jury on nine counts of threatening to kill or atrociously assault two men who apparently owed him $65,000. A second, Democrat Michael DeMartino, was charged with trying to extort $3,000 from a tavern owner by misusing his authority as a member of the city's alcoholic beverage control board. Last week it was revealed that the administration of a third candidate, Incumbent Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, a Democrat, is under investigation...
Larry O'Brien, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now George McGovern's campaign chairman, made more charges last week. O'Brien claimed that not only his own telephone but that of one of his aides had been tapped and "monitored on a regular daily basis" for several weeks prior to the arrests. He said that logs were kept of his telephone conversations, and that those logs had then been written up into memos and circulated. He refused to elaborate about who received the surveillance memos, but, if he was correct, their existence would...
...registered Democrat in Cambridge and I am not taking an active role in this campaign for anyone...
Within the past year, reform plans have been advanced by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the exchanges themselves. Late last month the House Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance, headed by California Democrat John Moss, weighed in with a 170-page blueprint for the securities industry's future. Now that nearly all interested parties have spoken, it is clear that the largely self-regulated industry must make sweeping changes rapidly or be forced into them by legislation, possibly soon after Congress convenes next January...