Word: democratics
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...Kentucky, Democrat Paul Patton won a narrow victory over Republican Larry Forgy, while Mississippi's Republican incumbent Kirk Fordice trounced his Democratic opponent Dick Molpus in one of the day's few bright spots for the G.O.P...
...been missing since Saturday amid a federal investigation for possible campaign finance violations. Wednesday, Enid Waldholtz was under media fire for failing to explain how she came up with $1.8 million in personal cash that many believe was the decisive factor in her 1994 victory over Democrat Karen Shepherd. Waldholtz maintains that the money came from family sources, but opponents question whether the money came from the estate of her husband's mentally incapacitated grandmother. Joe Waldholtz is suspected of stealing $600,000 from his grandmother and is under court order obtained to return it. Congresswoman Waldholtz would not discuss...
...context. Such was the White House response after columnist Ben Wattenberg published excerpts of a telephone call he recently received from President Clinton. According to Wattenberg, the voluble Clinton offered a self-critique of his first two years: the President had "lost the language" appropriate to a moderate New Democrat; he had become too interested in the "legislative scorecard"; he had erred by behaving "like a Prime Minister, not a President." Clinton press secretary Michael McCurry asserted that Wattenberg had condensed some "very nuanced discussions...
...demons are corporations, the "transnational institutions that show no loyalty to a country now at all. They are concerned about the corporate economy. I'm concerned about the national economy. They are no longer one and the same." These are the moments when Buchanan sounds like an unreconstructed liberal Democrat, defending labor unions and denouncing rapacious Big Business. But he does not extend his aim to the rich, perhaps because he understands what many have missed: most Americans do not want to hate rich people--they want to be them. "I really have no problem with Ted Turner making...
Four years ago, San Francisco voters started what became a nationwide trend by throwing out Art Agnos, a liberal Democratic mayor, and electing Jordan, a moderate Democrat. Jordan's promises to clean up the streets, balance the budget and get the city back on track offered a welcome change from an incumbent who had allowed the budget deficit to soar and the downtown civic center to deteriorate into a campground for vagrants. To Jordan's credit, he has pretty much done what he promised. FORTUNE magazine last week chose the San Francisco Bay Area as the best city...