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...This way were the Buchananites, in the center's main hall, led by the former Nixon crony who rails against illegal immigrants, gays, affirmative action, free trade, abortion rights, interventionist foreign policy and the "judicial dictatorship in America." Buchanan's running mate: Ezola Foster, a former typing teacher and current John Birch Society member who may be the only African-American living in L.A. who supported LAPD officers Stacy Koons and Larry Powell when they were charged with violating Rodney King's civil rights by beating him to a pulp. And if that weren't disturbing enough, she looks like...
...around 3 a.m. Hadassah Lieberman stuck head out her bedroom window and said, "Shhh, too much noise." Hadassah says she was still half-asleep in bed at 6:55 a.m. Monday when Joe heard a snippet on TV that he had been chosen to be Al Gore's running mate. "Come on Joey, don't kid around," Hadassah told him. "Then the 'Today Show' had this whole big story about Joey becoming the candidate." She doesn't know how it happened that the media learned before they did. But they...
...smokescreen - a Democratic strategy to add zip to its convention at Los Angeles' Staples Center arena. This week on the floor, just when the delegates and the dozen or so TV viewers least expect it, Joseph Lieberman will surprise everyone by introducing Al Gore's real running mate and Malibu's best-kept secret: Elvis Presley, alive and well and surprisingly trim due to daily tennis matches with his neighbor, Johnny Carson...
...latest polls, Gore and Lieberman are virtually tied with Texas Gov. George W. Bush and his running mate Richard B. Cheney, after falling to a double-digit deficit after last week's Republican convention. The Democrats will hold their convention next week...
This has been a banner week for American Jews. When Al Gore '69 announced Tuesday that he had selected Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman as his running mate, a storm of press coverage heralded the "bold" and "unprecedented" decision. Ordinarily cynical pundits praised Gore warmly for promoting tolerance and diversity in choosing Lieberman, the first Jew to run for vice president on a major party ticket. Jews across the country were said to be celebrating at the news. "From the kosher restaurants of Manhattan's Upper West Side to the corner shuls of Los Angeles' Pico-Robertson district," proclaimed...