Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current House Republicans were elected. If Gingrich was the mastermind behind the G.O.P. revolution, Paxon, as campaign-committee chairman, was the one who carried it out. More than a few of today's Republicans owe their jobs to him. Washington State's White, for example, challenged an incumbent Democrat in '94 in a race few Republicans thought he could win, but Paxon steered the maximum allowable amount of campaign-committee money into White's battle anyway. "Bill was there for a lot of us when no one else was," White says now. "That goes a long...
...chances are there won't be heated protests at the ARCO Forum tonight when Democrat Richard H. Gephardt mars the Harvard campus with his presence. No candlelight vigils are planned, and few students are likely to stand up bearing controversial signs during his speech. He is one of the most influential people in American politics today, and few seem to care what he says or does. Why? Two reasons...
...Middlesex Country Democrat has introduced legislation to make interest payments on college loans state-tax deductible. But a year after its introduction the bili finds itself mired in committee and lacking supporters in the House...
Next year's political model may resemble a 61-year-old businessman named Guy Millner. In 1994, armed with $1.6 million of his own money, Millner jumped into Georgia's gubernatorial race and won the Republican primary before losing narrowly to incumbent Democrat Zell Miller. Two years later, Millner ran for Georgia's vacant U.S. Senate seat--again gaining the G.O.P. nod, and again falling short in the general election. Political wags figured he was finished, or possibly broke--Millner had footed $6.4 million of that campaign's costs. But this summer Millner surprised them and announced his candidacy...
...runs for state representative, Galluccio said, he would retain his seat on the City Council. Another councillor, Democrat Timothy J. Toomey Jr., also is a current state representative, representing Cambridge...