Word: district
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holt vowed to fight again in 1990. "This will not be a senate district where the incumbent will run unopposed," he said...
Although the Democratic primary race for the state senate seat in the Suffolk and Middlesex district was far from a friendly competition, that changed last night as the whole thing turned into a neighborhood party...
...during her nine-year tenure the court has reversed all but three of the 55 death-penalty sentences that have come before it. Bird voted to overturn all of them. "She has been twisting the law so that it more closely reflects her own political beliefs," says Kern County District Attorney Edward Jagels, who, like many prosecutors, is an active Bird critic. (Bird refuses to divulge her personal position on capital punishment.) The campaign against the chief is a major factor in the state's gubernatorial race. Republican Incumbent George Deukmejian has led the call for her ouster; with...
...third candidate in this race--for his consistent and early support of the Lesbian and Gay Rights bill. The bill, which seeks to prevent discrimination based on sexual preference and has been blocked by Senate President William Bulger, has proven to be a high priority of residents of this district...
This year's state redistricting gave Graham's 28th Middlesex County district a plausible shape, to replace something that looked on the map like a lizard with a broken neck. It no longer includes the Radcliffe Quad, but it does contain the river houses in Ward...