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Cosentino joined the GOP in 1990 to vote for Gov. William F. Weld '66, and is attempting to become an alternative voice on the council, whose eight current members are all Democrats...
Vice President Al Gore '69 and former presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter led a score of senators and more than 100 congressional representatives, including Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole and House GOP Leader Robert Michel. Governor William F. Weld '66 and Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 also attended...
Republican George Allen handily won theVirginia governor's race yesterday, ending 12years of Democratic rule in Richmond. Allen'svictory in Virginia over Democrat Mary Sue Terrygave the GOP the night's first major trophy. With97 percent of the vote counted, Allen wascomfortably ahead with 58 percent to Terry's 41percent...
Former federal prosecutor Giuliani led 50percent to 49 percent with 40 percent of the votecounted in New York City. A Dinkins loss in NewYork wouldn't do much to the overwhelming edgeDemocrats enjoy at city halls, but a Giuliani winwould put the biggest city in GOP hands for thefirst time in nearly a quarter-century...
...early 1980s, young GOP House members adopted a new strategy for combatting the insurmountable Democratic majority. Led by Newt Gingrich, they decided to take advantage of C-Span TV cameras situated 24 hours a day in the House chamber by making alarmist, often untrue, speeches from the podium about what the Democrats were doing to the House. Most of the time, there were few other members in the chamber; sometimes, there were none because everyone else had gone home for the night. These tactics so infuriated Speaker Tip O'Neill that he directed some untoward language at Gingrich from...