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...economically challenged 15th District focuses on crime, housing, entrepreneurship, jobs and community development. He calls Harlem a "sleeping giant" that, with the right leader, can again be "the spark plug and heartbeat of the nation." Unlike Charles Rangel, whose connections extend well beyond New York, Adams' campaign is grass roots. And he'll need deep roots to hold his own against the powerful incumbent...
...year incumbent, Matsui is a no-nonsense legislator who mixes grass-roots values (in 1988 he sponsored legislation to give financial compensation to Japanese Americans interned during World War II) with progressive economics (he is a renowned free-trader and gets much of the credit for the passage of NAFTA). Voters in the Fifth District will find few reasons not to send him back to Washington...
...nonsense Republican, Hobson has used his business experience to negotiate things like NAFTA protections for flat grass and broomcorn--farmed in his district--and lobby against the American Automobile Labeling Act for constituents who work at the local Honda factory...
Pennsylvania, once the world's steel capital, also has one of the country's richest histories--the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written and signed in Philadelphia--and seems aptly named the Keystone State. With no statewide races this year, Pennsylvania's focus is again the political grass roots, where it all began...
Geraldine Sam, a kindergarten teacher from La Marque who still teaches full-time, says Stockman's conservative views are out of sync with the district. She has no lack of enthusiasm for her campaign, saying, "You can't put a price on grass-roots support." She has been endorsed by the Texas State Teachers Association and has the backing of the Coalition of Black Democrats and several Galveston city-council members...