Word: elected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those eight states, more than onewoman is on the ballot. In fact, in California,voters could theoreticallty elect an all-femalegovernment if they crossed party lines to vote...
Marchers chanted "rent control is out ofcontrol" in front of the Lowell St. home ofpro-rent control City Councilor Francis H. Duehay'55. The shades were drawn on the house and no oneanswered the megaphone-enhanced shouts, althoughthere was a beige Toyota Corolla in the drivewaywith a "Re-elect Duehay" bumper sticker...
...purpose of the voting rights acts has little to do with outcomes. It has a lot to do with process. The act does not care whether voters are silly enough to elect Newt Gingrich or Marion Barry. It does not care whether we choose a Republican president and a Democratic Congress. It does insist, however, that the process be fair and democratic...
Some analysts think they have detected a bipartisan "throw the bums out" mood building among the electorate this year. If so, it is a mood to be encouraged. Elections for the House and a third of the Senate will be held in less than a month, and the voters, having witnessed the spectacle in $ Washington, could do worse than simply elect challengers across the board. They could, as a matter of fact, do a lot worse; they could return all the incumbents for another term of madness. And if, two years hence, the voters are no longer willing to tolerate...
...certain that the Class of '91 will elect me to be their Marshal? The answer, stunning in its simplicity, is this: I pledge to give the people not what they are supposed to want in a Marshal, but what they really want...