Word: gov
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California Gov. Pete Wilson, in whose state five of the bombs killed two people, said he wants any Unabomber trial in California...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Now that Bob Dole has wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination, he must begin contemplating his choice for running mate. On Wednesday, Gov. Christie Todd Whitman said she told the Dole campaign she wants to remain governor of New Jersey and has no interest in joining Dole on the GOP ticket. "I told him that I appreciate all this discussion that was going on, but indicated that I still wanted to stay in the state of New Jersey," Whitman said. "So I'm going to continue to be governor of the state of New Jersey...
When a leader such as California Gov. Pete Wilson believes that immigrants cause people to lose jobs and pay large taxes, can we expect anyone to truly question it? If a leader believes strongly in an optical illusion, history will remember him or her as just a misguided fool. But Simpson doesn't even believe that legal immigration is the cause of all the country's problems, because he realizes the facts say otherwise. Yet he does not work to change the country's perception of immigration to fit the facts. Such a leader is cheating the American people. Members...
Brown's editorial displays the same prejudice and lack of perspective with which he credits the "traitors, miscreants and goons" of the South. Yes, the confederate flag is an inappropriate symbol for the Georgia state flag. Gov. Zell Miller, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the majority of those whom I know in Atlanta area all agree with this portion of Brown's tirade. His broad generalizations and prejudicial attacks, however, undermine his argument. Claiming that "the crimes of the Nazi state were perhaps more shocking than those of the Confederacy" (italics mine), and even then only because the Germans were...
Gingrich, for example, said retired gen. Colin L. Powell was a top prospect, ignoring daily protests from Buchanan because Powell supports abortion rights. Gingrich also cited Michigan Gov. John Engler and California Attorney General Dan Lungren as "perfect examples of the kind of people who I think would be terrific...