Word: holtzman
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...Both Holtzman and Javits find D'Amato deeply offensive. Members of Javits' staff have called D'Amato a "political hack" and the Senator himself said that D'Amato was "temperamentally and intellectually unsuited to the Senate...
JAVIT'S PERSISTENCE in the race turns the classic liberal-consecutive confrontation between Holtzman and D'Amato into a confusing parlay of labels designed to obfuscate the issues. Javits tries to represent himself as the moderate between two extremists; D'Amato sees himself as moderate in contrast to two wild-eyes liberals; Holtzman calls herself the only "genuine" liberal...
Although a September 30 New York Post poll shows Holtzman ahead of both Javits and D'Amato, the poll reflected widespread voter uncertainly that Javits, then in Washington, D.C., would run a full-fledged campaign. Now that he has emphatically stated his intention to do so, kicking off his New York campaign Tuesday, Javits makes Holtzman's early lead precarious. In 1970, a similar three-way race propelled Conservative James Buckley, as much a longshot as D'Amato appears today, into the Senate...
...could hardly hope for a better successor to Jacob Javits than Elizabeth Holtzman. Their styles match almost to a fault; both are characterized as extremely intellectual, hard-working and issue-oriented, if detached and aloof from their colleagues. And both have worked to champion social justice issues, both have remained committed to liberalism when it was no longer a popular cause...
...days ago New York liberal witnessed a particularly distressing spectacle: Javits attacking Holtzman, who shares many of his positions on the issues, as an extremist saddled with all the "doctrinaire naivete of the left." By turning his wrath on the infinitely preferable Holtzman, the aging Senator has chosen a graceless--if not downright irascible--way to end his illustrious 24-year career. Javits' attacks only serve to give credence to D'Amato's charges that Holtzman is a "radical," by which D'Amato means a Communist sympathizer...