Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accounts, Tommy Burks was a shoo-in for re-election to the Tennessee state senate. The five-term Democrat's law-and-order views resonated with the folks of rural Putnam County along with his distinctive country twang. Early last week, though, Burks was silenced, fatally shot in the head on his hog farm while readying his pumpkin patch for an annual visit from schoolchildren. After a few days' search and a night of questioning, police announced an arrest and a murder charge. The suspect: Byron Looper, the local tax assessor--and more important, Burks' opponent in the upcoming election...
Mild-mannered mom and first-term incumbent Patty Murray, a Democrat, is the antithesis of the modern-day celebrity politician. She doesn't look like one, she doesn't talk like one, she doesn't even care to be one. "I didn't run to be a politician," she said last week after a labor rally in Spokane...
...Even though I've been a longtime Democrat activist, I campaigned as an independent so we could get these issues into the final," Schinella says...
...Democrat, I would have been one of the nine who lost. Now, I'm able to give my ideas an extra twomonth life in the final," he says...
...cash-free independent? That has less than zero credibility," he says, explaining his thought process. "I have to go with a major party, so I say, 'Let's see: a cash-free Democrat? Forget it. I'll be gone in the primary...