Word: hecklers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats seem to believe that the election is not a mandate to reverse Reagan's policies completely, and do not plan to push for big spending programs this session. Noted Barney Frank of Massachusetts, one of Congress's most outspoken liberals, after beating Republican Margaret Heckler: "We are not asking the Federal Government to spend more money. We are asking that what is spent be spent with a better sense of equity...
EAST. One of the most expensive House races in the entire country pitted Incumbents Barney Frank, a liberal Democrat, and Margaret Heckler, a moderate Republican, against each other in a Massachusetts constituency drastically changed by redistricting. Frank once likened running in the district, 70% of whose voters had been represented by Heckler, to "acting out a speaking part in my own mugging." But he put together a highly effective organization that spent around $1.2 million and tirelessly denounced Heck ler's votes for Reagan's economic policies. Heckler wound up spending more than $600,000, but could...
Former Governor Michael S. Dukakis claimed about 60 percent of the vote and moved from his Kennedy School of Government post back to the Statehouse. Rep. Barney Frank '61, meanwhile, had a surprisingly easy time winning the reshaped Fourth Congressional District seat, besting Rep. Margaret Heckler by a three-to-two margin...
McNamara's soulmate, Walpole businessman Ray Shamie, used almost $1 million of his own income to battle Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and he failed to make a dent in the presidential aspirant's popularity. Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) lost the seat she has held for eight terms. In the state legislature, Democrats added to their already lopsided majorities in both houses. They now control the House 131 to 29 and the Senate...
...credit for the large Democratic wins goes to Ronald Reagan. He personally made the election across the nation a referendum on whether this country should "stay the course" on his economic programs. While several GOP candidates, such as Heckler, tried to distance themselves from such policies, they were swept away by the prevailing voter sentiment that, in this time of crisis, there is only Democrat and Republican, and no intermediate shades of gray...