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DIED. Thomas Eagleton, 77, wry, straightforward Missouri Democrat whose 18-day stint as vice-presidential candidate on George McGovern's ticket ended with reports that he had been hospitalized several times for depression; in Richmond Heights, Mo. Eagleton, who was then in his first term as a U.S. Senator, returned to Congress, where he sponsored the 1973 amendment halting the bombing in Cambodia and was pivotal in the Senate's passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts...
...Jersey is unique among states in that its population overwhelmingly supports some form of equal partnership rights for gays. According to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll from June, over 66 percent of New Jersey residents are in favor of same-sex unions, while nearly 50 percent specifically favor same-sex “marriage.” Given the popular support for equal gay rights, the legislature ought to have seized the opportunity to voice the beliefs of its constituency. To do so would not have threatened their political careers, since such a bill would have merely been reflective of widespread...
...country. In New Jersey, Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez and Republican Tom Kean, who are both against gay marriage but for civil unions, are in a virtual tie in a crucial contest, and a Kean victory would almost certainly mean Republicans retained control of the Senate. But a Rutgers-Eagleton poll in June found 50% of people in the state favored gay marriage, while 44% opposed. And New Jersey is heavily Democratic, so it?s hard to see this decision putting Kean over...
...formed a pint-size company, Traf-O-Data, that studied traffic patterns for small towns near Seattle. When he was 15 and a tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000 ... While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped up 5,000 McGovern-Eagleton campaign buttons for a nickel each just after South Dakota's George McGovern dumped Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton from the Democratic ticket. They later sold the scarce mementos for as much as $25 each." Read more at timearchive.com...
...million to the Democratic Party. Kushner is also the biggest financial backer of New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, who was only a mayor when Kushner began writing him checks in the '90s. "The amount of money he raised is unusual for one person," says Ingrid Reed of the Eagleton Institute of Politics. "He's not a household word...but he was a respected, well-known figure among the elite...