Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoping that Dukakis was going to pick Jackson," Prarie View A&M student Kevin Walls said. "I'm going to support the Democratic ticket because I'm a Democrat. I guess, in a way, it's good that Jesse wasn't on the ticket. Some racist idiot may have tried to kill...
...that crazy about Jesse Jackson anyway," Ray Ingram said, an engineer in Houston. "I'm going to vote for Dukakis because "I'm a Democrat. I also like the fact that Lloyd Bentsen is a Texan...
Minnesota Democrat Bruce Vento, chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, contends that the Park Service has been commandeered by the political appointees of Watt and current Interior Secretary Donald Hodel. He has introduced legislation to create a separate and independent National Park Service with a director who would be a presidential appointee, subject to Senate scrutiny and confirmation. The bill, which has 90 co-sponsors, has a good chance of passing...
Weldon Mathis, the union's acting president while Presser is hospitalized with brain cancer, called the suit "a shameful attempt to destroy a democratic union." Several public officials also criticized the potentially dangerous precedent. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said a move by the Government to take over a union "smacks of totalitarianism." Senator Paul Simon of Illinois, a Democrat, was also wary. "I think we're getting on very, very thin ice here," he said...
Author, author! Speaker Jim Wright's nemesis Newt Gingrich has an ethical problem of his own. Democrat David Worley, hoping to win Gingrich's Georgia congressional seat, totes a blank book to campaign stops. The title: What I Did on My Summer Vacation, by Newt Gingrich. It refers to the European trip Gingrich and his family took to do "research," using a $13,000 advance for a book he never wrote...