Word: democratics
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Therein lies part of the problem, of course. The issue has become so confusing that many voters have no idea what a Yes or No vote means on tax classification. That alone keeps business hopes alive. Every single office-holder and candidate for statewide office in Massachusetts, Democrat or Republican, is in favor of Question One (including Ed King). Ralph Nader calls it crucial. Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, as part of his machine-building, is banking his political future on it, in part because he realizes that its failure will mean angry homeowners storming City Hall to protest skyrocketing...
...G.O.P. leaders in Michigan, fearing they would lose the seat to a Democrat, urged Griffin to reconsider. So too did rank-and-file Republicans, who sent him thousands of cards and letters. Suddenly, last February, the Senator changed his mind and declared that he would seek a third term in the November election...
Griffin is attacking his opponent as a free-spending Democrat who would add to "the high cost of Levin." The Senator reminds voters of how he helped block Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas as U.S. Chief Justice in 1968 and Richard Nixon's nomination of Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court in 1969. Griffin also stresses, in current TV ads, the fight he made this year against the Panama Canal Treaties. Says he: "Next year I'll have even more seniority and my no will be even louder." Levin responds by scathingly calling Griffin "Senator No Show...
...spring Ferraro, 43, quit her job as an assistant district attorney, hired a campaign manager and opened her headquarters. Says she: "I wasn't going to run this campaign over a kitchen table." To help finance her race for the seat vacated after 32 years by the retirement of Democrat James Delaney, she dipped into her savings for $115,000. Although Democratic leaders supported a man in the primary, she won and now stands a good chance of beating Republican Alfred DelliBovi, 32, in next week's election...
Women also have less access to the bastions of ward-level power ?the corner bar, veterans' club or Rotary-type organizations. Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado says that almost all the forums she attended in her last race were in front of clubs that barred women as members. Says she: "You felt like you were contaminating the food or that you ought to pop out of a cake. It's not like you're one of the boys; you feel like a hunk of meat." Louisiana Democrat Lindy Boggs succeeded her late husband in Congress, but to keep...