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...race for Jepsen's Senate seat has been a see-saw battle of Iowa mudslinging, cheap shots, and groin kicks. Jepsen's advertisements have stopped just short of accusing his opponent of treason, while one of Harkin's better known television commercials shows a close-up of a snorting hog while a voice over accuses Jepsen of insensitivity...
...This contract was really stark. The images portrayed of Republican and of our ACORN members curry over to real lives. The Republicans live high off the hog and we have to grovel in the dirt and scrape by ACORN people are the spirit of America--we are the wind blowing through the flaps of the flags and tents...
When one reporter suggested that her family lives high on the hog, Ferraro's reply was angled perfectly to catch the prevailing political winds. "You're seeing people who work very hard. We're not flashy?we buy property and we maintain it, and it appreciates. That's what America is all about." When asked if she was being held to a double standard because of her sex, she did not rise to the bait. Nor at other opportunities did she hide her feminism. When she went to a bank to finance her first House campaign in 1978, Ferraro revealed...
...from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever, or to hog cholera or some other epidemic disease. Many Haitians contend that only a few pigs were afflicted with the dread African swine fever. Says one poultry raiser: "The farmers saw no reason for the pigs to be killed...
...first farmer to be in financial difficulty primarily through no fault of your own." Thus wrote Senator James Exon, a Nebraska Democrat, in a letter that was probably intended to needle rather than console. The recipient: John Block, a millionaire hog farmer from Illinois who also happens to be Ronald Reagan's highly respected Secretary of Agriculture...