Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it's been a real important issue," Hanig says. "A lot of people have asked me whether I was prochoice before they would even take my literature, and clearly that happened right after the Webster case...
...council must be cautious and watchful even if a tax package is passed to prevent the cuts, Vellucci said. He warned that added revenue from the tax packages could be used for other purposes, citing a case several years ago in which gas taxes were raised by five cents per gallon with no corresponding improvement in state infrastructure...
Frequently, the candidates wouldn't even talk to me. One resented the fact that I was doing too much, because it made her look like she was doing nothing. Zwirn hated me at first because of an old political fight he had with my father. As a result, nothing got done...
...shoestring budget with no telephones. It represented one of the only contributions the Democratic organization would let me make to a backward, lethargic campaign. Democrats had gotten so comfortable with idea of doing nothing and losing comfortably that they were completely surprised by the idea of an active (maybe even winning) campaign...
Being a Democrat in Nassau County might best be defined as the politics of the down and out. We have no inspiring candidates, close to no money and almost no voter support. We are used to losing, and probably wouldn't even know what to do if we won. The result is one-party, closed-door government, running local affairs with no effective opposition...