Word: grass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grass roots campaign. He's looking for working families. People in the working class feel a connection with him from his days as Mayor," Kelley said...
...candidate who proclaimed himself "an unrepentant, unabashed, unreconstructed liberal" and the "grass-roots" Boston man could not overcome the Somerville mayor's coalition...
Flynn's tenure as mayor of Boston wascontroversial at times, but he always maintainedstrong grass-root support, particularly amongstthe district's Irish-American voters...
...pass the Superfund legislation in the 1980s, we had to organize a national grass-roots coalition of more than 1,000 organizations to overcome the objections of Ronald Reagan and a Republican Senate. The primary lesson I learned from that battle was that power comes from the exercise of collective action. It is this belief in what people can do when they work together, and my personal experiences mobilizing and organizing, which I hope to bring to Washington...
...know that progressive change is possible if we can shake up Washington with a little grass-roots spirit. Together, we can achieve health care for all, establish positive "town-gown" relationships, protect Social Security from those who wish to sell it off to Wall Street and let right-wing Republicans know that we consider our children's education to be quite a bit more important than a dozen F-10 fighter jets...