Word: lauch
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These blatant acts were not lost on American voters and there are signs the momentum is shifting. In the 1998 elections, Republicans struggled to explain why they constantly voted against clean water and air. Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) and former senator Alfonse D'Amato (D-N.Y.)--two staunch opponents of reform--failed miserably in trying to portray themselves as pro-environment, and were upset in electoral contests. My advice to politicians like Lauch and D'Amato: Give it up, guys. If D'Amato saw the endangered sea turtle...
...These blatant acts were not lost on American voters and there are signs the momentum is shifting. In the 1998 elections, Republicans struggled to explain why they constantly voted against clean water and air. Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) and former senator Alfonse D'Amato (D-N.Y.)--two staunch opponents of reform--failed miserably in trying to portray themselves as pro-environment, and were upset in electoral contests. My advice to politicians like Lauch and D'Amato: Give it up, guys. If D'Amato saw the endangered sea turtle...
...understand the deep bewilderment that Election Day '98 visited on the Republicans, you had only to look at Senators Al D'Amato and Lauch Faircloth, two of Bill Clinton's sweatiest pursuers, making their baffled concessions. Or to hear Newt Gingrich, who said last April that he would never give another speech without mentioning the White House scandals, complaining about how it was the media that had been obsessed with the whole nasty thing. Or to see Henry Hyde, whose House Judiciary Committee must still find its way down from Mount Monica, as he promised last week to descend...
...correspondent Jay Branegan, "and it appears they have." Heading up the GOP casualties: outspoken New York Senator Al D?Amato, unseated by Rep. Chuck Schumer despite spending a record-breaking $22 million; California challenger Matt Fong, who failed to oust Sen. Barbara Boxer; and in North Carolina, the ultraconservative Lauch Faircloth, who lost out to John Edwards in a bellwether race that Democrats were watching closely. Few will doubt that they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams...
...through overzealous enforcement of antitrust" laws. "We must protect our high-tech industry's freedom to innovate," said the Oct. 12 letter, copying Microsoft's p.r. machine practically verbatim. While the letter was circulating, CEO BILL GATES appeared in North Carolina with one of his most vocal Senate defenders, LAUCH FAIRCLOTH, who is locked in a squeaker of a race. Gates didn't endorse Faircloth, but spoke warmly of him and thanked him for his help...