Word: eckart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congressional District seat, likes to tell the story of two doctors treating a man with acute appendicitis. One tells the patient he will need an operation; it will be painful, but he will not die. The other offers the man morphine. In Warner's view, Democratic opponent Dennis Eckart is the man with the morphine and the wrong prescription for the district's ailing economy. To Eckart, Warner is a man who would trifle with people's lives for the sake of economic theory. Says Eckart: "We need a government that cares about working people...
...Eckart is a "boy wonder" who served three terms as a state representative and two years as a Congressman from Cleveland's suburban 22nd District before losing his seat through redistricting. Determined to return to the House, Eckart moved his family 20 miles to the Eleventh District. Despite charges of carpetbagging, he handily won the Democratic nomination in the June primary, taking 56% of the vote...