Word: hartigan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final day of school, children race to the firehouse with their report cards. Those with perfect attendance or outstanding grades ride home on bikes that Flowers rebuilt the previous winter. Last June nearly 100 winners pedaled out the front doors on their rewards for making the attendance rate at Hartigan Community Arts Specialty School among the best in Chicago. "We were just delighted," says Greer. "These children need to know that there are men who are black and who don't sell drugs or aren't involved with drugs. They need to know that there are men who care...
What Thomann didn't know was the chain of events that had begun weeks earlier when a Carey campaign consultant, Martin Davis, approached a top Democratic fund raiser, Laura Hartigan, with the plan for the lopsided contribution swap. Hartigan, in turn, pressed Sullivan to find a big donor for the Carey campaign to carry out the D.N.C.'s part of the bargain. The Teamsters, meanwhile, kept their word, sending an initial $236,000 to Democratic parties in 35 states at the end of the month, according to court papers...
There were similar mixed messages in other states. In Illinois, Democrat Neil Hartigan promised to remove an unpopular 2% income tax surcharge, while Republican James Edgar admitted he would keep the levy in place. Edgar privately asked George Bush to stay away, fearing the anger that Bush's tax reversal had bred. Voters overwhelmingly wanted a rollback -- but did not trust Hartigan to do it. Edgar won by 52% to 48%. Nebraska's Republican Governor, Kay Orr, went back on her pledge not to raise taxes, as did Florida's Martinez and Governor Mike Hayden in Kansas. All three lost...
Illinois GOP Secretary of State Jim Edgar led Neil Hartigan narrowly in Illinois...