Word: kamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge, unused campaign treasuries. Ahead in the main arena for Richards is West Texas oil millionaire Clayton Williams, who breezed to the Republican nomination in an easy March primary. In California, G.O.P. candidate (and U.S. Senator) Pete Wilson is lying in wait, while Democrats Attorney General John Van de Kamp and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein have at each other. Among Florida's Democrats, former Senator Lawton Chiles has just heard "voices" that told him to jump into the primary at the last minute, wrecking the carefully built two-year campaign of Congressman Bill Nelson to be the standard...
...Nowhere is death-penalty politics more powerful than in California, where former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein faces state Attorney General John Van de Kamp in a race for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Feinstein's campaign was considered all but hopeless until recently, when she began to run a television ad proclaiming her approval of both abortion rights and capital punishment. Almost overnight, she rocketed up 19 points in the polls, grabbing the lead from Van de Kamp, an opponent of capital punishment. Now Van de Kamp has unveiled his own TV spot, complete with footage...
Although Republican Governor George Deukmejian is not running for re- election, he has adroitly played the death issue to maximize the discomfort of the Democrats. After Harris petitioned for clemency, Deukmejian decided to conduct the hearing himself, denying Van de Kamp a high-profile role that ordinarily would have been his. That led Harris to withdraw his request for a hearing, complaining he would never get a fair one from Deukmejian, who as a state legislator helped draft California's death-penalty law. The Governor has now agreed to hear a telephoned plea for clemency from Mother Teresa...
...race in which the candidates' differences are minimal on issues such as crime, abortion rights, education reform and no new taxes, Van de Kamp, 54, has a strong card in his identification with the Big Green. "The cleverest thing he's done," acknowledged a Feinstein adviser. Being against environmental causes in 1990, Van de Kamp told a conservationist audience in Sacramento, "is like being a communist in Eastern Europe...
...heavily on television, had shot ahead of Van de Camp, 42% to 38%, and Wilson as well, 46% to 43%, after trailing both by as much as 18 points in October. Concluded Los Angeles political columnist Joe Scott: "Before, it looked like an easy slam dunk for Van de Kamp in the primary, to be followed by a showdown between two gents in blue suits. Now it's been transformed into a close and volatile, totally unpredictable three-way race...