Word: democratics
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Glenn S. Koocher '71, a Cambridge political analyst, described the 1996 showdown between Galluccio and Wolf as a "classic town-versus-gown" election. The race pits Galluccio, "the lunch-pail democrat" against Wolf, "the limousine liberal," quipped Koocher, who hosts a local public-access television show on city politics...
Tauscher joined the lesser-known New Democrat Coalition. By contrast with the Blue Dogs, the NDC's members hail not from rural districts but from suburban ones. While the Blue Dogs represent old industries, the New Dogs, as they are called, talk about the high-tech economy. They get excited about things like encryption law. Their constituents are essentially contented, libertarian and relativistic. While the Blue Dogs barely survived Clinton, the New Dogs pattern themselves in his image. They were his key allies behind enemy lines when he squared off against Richard Gephardt on the 1997 balanced-budget agreement...
There's just one problem: money. It's all well and good to be a suburban, pro-business Democrat, but since the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, business hasn't been donating that much to Democrats, pro-business or not. After all, every additional New Dog in Congress is a step toward corporate America's nightmare of nightmares: a Democratic House majority and Speaker Gephardt. The Democratic National Committee can't make up the shortfall because it's flat broke. That leaves the tender New Dog pups facing their first re-election next year dependent on labor...
...think that some obscure Democrat running for Governor of Texas and 50 percentage points behind in the polls wouldn't be able to corral a lot of high-class national Democratic talent to help in his campaign. But land commissioner GARRY MAURO, who announces his candidacy for the Lone Star State governorship this week, attracted some pretty impressive folks to his book-signing soiree in Washington not too long ago. We're talking fellow authors Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as best-selling scribe Al Gore. In addition, the First Lady has played host at a fund-raising dinner...
Demakis, a self-described "Liberal Democrat and pragmatist," is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and worked for 10 years as a tax lawyer in state government. During his two terms in the House, he has firmly established an allegiance to liberal allies--from pro-choice to gay and lesbian constituencies--in Boston and Cambridge...