Word: kerrey
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...cited "the ever-increasing vicious polarization of the electorate" as a major reason for his departure. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who chairs the national Republican senatorial committee, said winning Exon's seat would be a GOP priority. D'Amato's Democratic counterpart, Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, now has to comb his largely Republican state for a replacement. Says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty: "It's just one more headache the Democrats don't need...
Just because he is pro-choice and a Protestant, is it not kosher for Nebraska Senator BOB KERREY to take Communion in the Roman Catholic Church? Kerrey had been doing that for more than a year-only to discover to his embarrassment that it's against church rules. After an official of Nebraska's Right to Life committee complained, Kerrey announced that he would no longer participate in Communion ceremonies, but plans to continue attending Mass anyway. "It's a great church," he says. "I like the values...
Powell is so free he could even run as a Democrat, but if it comes, a challenge to Clinton in the primaries seems more likely from other quarters. Bob Kerrey, whom Clinton beat in the 1992 Democratic primaries, stung his former rival last November when he declared the G.O.P. stampede a ``severe, sharp and obvious repudiation of the President.'' House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt upstaged Clinton's call for a middle-class tax cut by offering his own plan only two days before the President proposed his--and Gephardt rubbed it in when he said he'd take his orders...
...Watanabe said that if Kerrey runs against"a well-funded articulate candidate," he couldfind himself fighting to hold onto his Senateposition...
...When Kerrey last ran in 1990, Watanabe said, hefaced Jim Rappaport, "a third-rate candidate, whogave him a run for his money...