Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Helping Congressmen get re-elected is an increasingly popular device. Veteran Washington Lobbyist Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. is on no fewer than 50 "steering committees" set up to raise money for congressional election campaigns. By night, Good Ole Boy Boggs can be found shmoozing at Capitol Hill fund raisers, where lobbyists drop off envelopes containing checks from Political Action Committees (PACs) at the door before digging into the hors d'oeuvres. By day, Boggs lobbies Congressmen, often the same ones for whom he has raised money the night before. Lately high-power political consulting firms such as Black, Manafort & Stone...
Legally, there are two firms. Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, a lobbying operation, represents Bethlehem Steel, the Tobacco Institute, Herbalife, Angolan "Freedom Fighter" Jonas Savimbi and the governments of the Bahamas and the Philippines. Black, Manafort, Stone & Atwater, a political-consulting firm, has helped elect such powerful Republican politicians as Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Jesse Helms...
...Soares compared with almost 49% for right-wing Candidate Diogo Freitas do Amaral, who had scored 46% in the first round and had seemed in a good position to win. In Lisbon, thousands of supporters gathered outside Soares' campaign headquarters to celebrate his dramatic comeback. Visibly moved, the President-elect told them, "For the first time in 60 years, Portugal has a civilian President of the Republic...
...elect Sheriff James Holt" hand-lettered signs shouted over and over as we drove through Lee County, North Carolina. Every time a police car drove by, we contemplated getting pulled over on purpose, hoping against hope that our arresting officer might be the good Sheriff...
With seven semesters of government under its belt, the Undergraduate Council has to elect new officers before it can move onto a spring semester full of business...