Word: democratizer
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...just idle chatter, since the group includes three people who have considered or still are considering mounting such a bid: Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey; Lowell Weicker, the former Republican Senator and Independent Governor of Connecticut; and former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992. The other confederates are Dick Lamm, the former Democratic Governor of Colorado; former Minnesota Representative Tim Penny (a budget-cutting Democrat); the current Governor of Maine, Angus King, an Independent; and former Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado. The meetings are so sensitive that Lamm, their...
...congressional elections, G.O.P. candidates won by running against Bill Clinton. This year the bogey man is the increasingly unpopular House Speaker. In the Nov. 7 Kentucky Governor's election, Democrat Paul Patton won largely by selling himself as a defender of the weak against Newt the serial program killer. Now in California's 15th congressional district Gingrich has become a target of opportunity for Democrats trying to win a special Dec. 12 election to replace resigned Democratic Representative Norman Mineta...
...Moore, a Democrat who took office in 1988 and is seeking testimony about tobacco's addictive properties and impact on health, believes the subpoena will protect Wigand from legal action by B&W for breaking his nondisclosure contract. But even more explosive than Wigand's deposition could be the documents that the subpoena requests him to produce. Those papers supposedly include evidence that B&W altered its research into the carcinogenic, toxic or addictive effects of tobacco, as well as a diary Wigand kept while working there. Wigand, says Moore, has "wanted to tell the truth...
...have been quietly plotting a run for the White House. In two late October conference calls, the schemers concluded that there is a hunger for a party that is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, pro-environment and in favor of campaign-finance reform. Next Sunday, the group members, which include Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, former Republican Senator and Independent Governor of Connecticut Lowell Weicker and former Democratic Senators Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Gary Hart of Colorado, will hold their most important call yet. They will decide whether one of them will run as an independent to challenge...
Voters in Gary, Indiana, where nearly 90% of the residents are black, elected Democrat Scott King their first white mayor in 28 years. In San Francisco, Willie Brown, California's flamboyant former state-assembly speaker, faces a Dec. 12 runoff against decidedly unflamboyant incumbent Frank Jordan (who weirdly sought to liven up his image shortly before the election by showering in the nude with two local disc jockeys). In Baltimore and Philadelphia, no surprises: Democratic incumbents Kurt Schmoke and Edward Rendell won easily...