Word: idahoan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congressmen Symms is the essence of earthy politics; he hands out his wife's apple receipes as he tours the state. Indeed, the apple, or rather the bite out of it signifying reduced taxes and clean fiscal living, has become his symbol. To retaliate, Church has become the consummate Idahoan in his television ads--the New Republic reports that his favorite pose of late is toting a shotgun while walking along a ranch fence in sheepskin jacket and cowboy...
...campaign symbol. In past years, he would take a bite and ask: "Wouldn't you like to take a bite out of government?" His TV ads portray him as a down-home boy driving a tractor, while a voice-over sings: "I was born to be an Idahoan at heart...
Mainly, Church portrays himself as Idahoan to the core. A campaign leaflet shows him in Western garb toting a shotgun, by a barbed-wire fence. Declares his campaign literature: "Church puts Idaho first." The Senator claims that he has responded to 110,000 pleas for assistance since he was first elected 24 years ago. He takes credit for reclamation projects, rangeland improvements, recreation areas and dairy-farm price supports. He has kept the votes of many conservative businessmen by cutting red tape in Washington for them. He defends his support of the wilderness bill, which would set aside 2.2 million...