Word: getting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish we could get it adopted in the South,"says Edward Still, a lawyer in Birmingham, Alabamawho has mounted several challenges to electoralsystems under the federal Voting Rights Act. "Ithink it would solve a lot of our problems...
...Still says, "I can't seem to get anyoneinterested in it. No one seems to understand...
...election system, people with more moneyand more resources can reach more voters," hesays. Under PR, though, "you've got a citycouncillor who can get elected with one-tenth ofthe vote. It doesn't matter if that one-tenthcomes from every household or from one-tenth ofthe city...
...Proposition 1-2-3 will end rent control forever," VanIngen says. "If rent control goes out, I'm sure my landlord can get $1200 for my apartment and I don't know what...
...greedy real estate people will make us offers and get us to sell," VanIngen says. "If you're a poor family and someone offers you $3000 to move that sounds great. But you have to have somewhere to move...