Word: gored
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...should prevent a public university from requiring that its students fund politically-oriented groups. They rely on a Supreme Court decision prohibiting a government-imposed union from requiring its members to contribute dues towards the union's political advocacy. However, the University of Wisconsin is not donating to the Gore campaign and sending the bill to its students. The student fee is a means of promoting an open forum on campus for groups of all kinds: religious, political, artistic and social. A union is allowed to gather dues to support collective bargaining and other activities central to its purpose...
Vice President Albert A. Gore, who graduated from Harvard College in 1969 with an honors degree in government, rarely talks about his life at the nation's most prestigious university in public, perhaps because of the elite image a Harvard education evokes...
...Gore may have a lock on the votes of organized labor, but the Clinton administration's latest trade deal with China may make it harder to rouse trade union enthusiasm for electing the veep. Labor slammed the agreement Tuesday, with AFL-CIO president John Sweeney calling it a "grave mistake" and Teamsters leader James P. Hoffa denouncing it as a "slap in the face" to American and Chinese workers. Labor's hostility to the pact that all but ensures China's entry to the WTO may bode ill for Gore, who has assiduously courted labor's support since his free...
...Championing a deal opposed by labor could cost Gore heavily in one of the Democratic party's key activist constituencies, but free trade remains a cornerstone of the vice president's politics. Much may hinge, then, on how Bill Bradley responds to the same issue. Buoyed by an endorsement from former Clinton administration labor secretary Robert Reich Monday, Bradley is well-placed to outflank Gore from the party's left. But the former New Jersey senator's own voting record is also solidly pro-free trade, and although he gave the agreement a qualified welcome Monday, opposing it would...
Given the history between Reich and Gore, the veep's team couldn't have been very surprised by Reich's defection to the Bradley camp. There was a caustic note to the official response to the news, however, that might point to a little bit of hurt. "I hope this means Mr. Reich will educate Senator Bradley's team on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security - all programs threatened by Bradley's agenda," Gore spokesman Chris Lehane huffed to the Associated Press. With Gore's long list of endorsements growing every day, his campaign is not in any way imperiled...