Word: jersey
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...JERSEY: How serious is Bill Clinton about campaign finance reform? That question is being asked Wednesday as the President hits the fund-raising road in what could well be described as a masterpiece of bad timing. One day after the McCain-Feingold bill was permanently mired in the Senate, Clinton will be attending no less than five fund-raisers here and in Philadelphia, hoping to raise a total of $2 million in soft money...
Just a few years ago, the triumvirate of Governors William F. Weld '66 of Massachusetts, Pete Wilson of California, and Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey were hailed as the future saviors of the Republican Party. The "3 W's" of moderate Republicanism-fiscally conservative (tax and spending cuts) and socially liberal (pro-choice, pro-gay rights)-seemed to offer the perfect combination to lure the Republican Party back to the center from its Buchananite extremes. With their message of keeping the government out of the pocketbook and the bedroom, they could sell the all-important swing voters...
...Jersey, Whitman is simply paying the piper for her own sales pitch of four years ago. She won her first campaign for Governor by bashing incumbent Jim Florio for his tax hikes and pledging that she would reverse the trend. While income taxes were cut, her failure to control property taxes and auto insurance rates undercut her credibility. As any consumer knows, cheaper peanut butter is no bargain if jelly and bread still cost a fortune...
That prospect puzzles Senator Frank Lautenberg, the Democrat from New Jersey who is the author of the bill. "I've never heard of a man killing his spouse with an F-16," he says. "That borders on the goofy." But that was an unwitting legacy of Republican lawmakers. In a ploy that backfired, gun-rights supporters, led by G.O.P. Representative Bob Barr of Georgia, quietly removed the exemption for the military and the police that had always been part of federal gun-control laws. The lawmakers apparently hoped the prospect of disarming G.I.s and cops would force Congress to kill...
Larrabee focused on the construction of college libraries. Among her projects was a reconstruction of the New Jersey College for Women, now part of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick...