Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised more boodle from Washington-which enhanced seniority would enable him to produce. His themes were the same ones that had won him three Senate elections in the past: jobs, schools, increased Social Security. But during his nearly 18 years in Washington, Democrat Vance Hartke had acquired a well-deserved reputation as a junketeering, always-on-the-make politician. In a race in which integrity was the hot issue, that image was fatal. Hartke, 57, was swamped by Richard Lugar, 44, who served two successful terms as mayor of Indianapolis...
...candidates-both 38 and both articulate and able-staged a Pier 6 campaign. Green's commercials carried the tagline MAN AGAINST THE MONEY-though the Democrat spent nearly $ 1 million himself. Green is a bitter enemy of Philadelphia's Mayor Frank Rizzo, but Heinz depicted Green as an unwholesome machine politician, captive of the Philadelphia Democratic organization that his late father (whom Green succeeded in Congress) controlled for years...
...major victory that reflected voter frustration with ordinary politics and ordinary politicians, Republican S.I. Hayakawa ousted Democrat John Tunney from his U.S. Senate seat. When the tart-tongued Hayakawa takes the oath of office next January, he will be-at 70 -one of the oldest freshman Senators in the history of the Senate...
...stunning primary upsets of 1976, Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, an anti-foreign aid ideologue for 15 House terms, lost to a 34-year-old farmer, Jerry Huckaby. Alabama Democrat Robert E. Jones Jr., who spent 29 years in the House without even winning the nickname Bobby Jones, retired. He will be succeeded by another Democrat, Ronnie Flippo, 38, a C.P.A. and member of the state senate, which passed a dubiously congratulatory resolution asserting that the "intellectual quality" of that body as well as the House would be improved if he were elected...
There were 18 women (13 Democrats and five Republicans) in the old House and 17 in the new. Two star-quality Democrats?New York's brassy Bella Abzug and Hawaii's pert Patsy Mink?gave up their seats in unsuccessful attempts to win Senate nominations. Abzug will be replaced by New York City Councilman Theodore S. Weiss, 48, who rejected suggestions that he vacate his Democratic nomination and let Abzug reclaim her old job. Mink's successor is Democrat Daniel Akaka, 51, a former aide to Hawaii's Governor George Ariyoshi...