Word: democratics
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...more. Powerful constituents can also exceed the per-candidate spending limits through a type of earmarking called "tallying," which routes their big checks to the party and then back to their candidate of choice. The Washington Post found memos from the campaign of Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that openly asked donors to tally their extra contributions to benefit his campaign. One letter from Levin soliciting a tallied contribution from the Chrysler Corp.'s PAC in 1995 called it "crucial to my re-election effort next year...
...years later, liberal groups are imitating conservatives with a vengeance. Unionists, environmentalists and pro-choice activists rehearsed earlier this year in Oregon's special election; working in tandem, they put Democrat Ron Wyden into the Senate seat held for 26 years by Bob Packwood. Now liberal groups like these dominate the independent-expenditures game, directing their efforts against the House G.O.P.'s most vulnerable faction, its 73-member freshman class. Philadelphia's Annenberg School for Communication has cataloged 19 separate organizations that have taken to the airwaves this year; 60% of their messages have supported Democrats. "If the Democrats take...
...environmental community has its own ambitious campaign of sneak attacks. The League of Conservation Voters has devoted its $1.5 million kitty to defeat just 12 lawmakers (11 Republicans and one Democrat) whom the organization has called "the Dirty Dozen." The Sierra Club has targeted 30 races with a million-dollar effort, including voter guides (on recycled paper) that list incumbent Republicans who allegedly have damaged the ecosystems of their own districts...
...this summer's Republican National Convention, Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee, attacked the Democrat-favoring teachers unions for impeding education reform. In retaliation, the Democrats harped on Republican attempts to slash funding for education. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D.-Mass.) went so far as to label Dole's acceptance address as "the first anti-teacher, anti-education speech ever delivered by a presidential nominee of either major party...
...Saturday, a group including Harvard undergraduates will door-drop voter guides comparing the environmental records of Republican U.S. representative Peter Blute and his challenger in the Massachusetts third congressional district, Democrat Jim McGovern...