Word: mcgann
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Morris earned serious policy credentials to go with his political smarts. He spent six years as an analyst with a city-budget watchdog group, became issues director for a failed New York gubernatorial candidate (meeting his wife, litigator Eileen McGann, during the campaign), then hung out his shingle as a free-lance issues adviser. "It didn't hurt that candidates thought I could deliver the West Side," he says. He helped a raft of local Democrats hone their positions but found that policy alone didn't fire his engines. "I wanted to find some way to connect issues with electability...
...Supreme Court refused last week to hear the case of John McGann is not nearly as clear as the possible repercussions of that decision. McGann, a Houston music-store clerk, had his medical insurance suddenly cut from $1 million to $5,000 after his employer learned he had AIDS. An unusual alliance of American Medical Association officials and AIDS activists says the court's inaction may embolden other employers who promise medical benefits to retroactively refuse insurance payouts . McGann did not live to hear the bad news: he died in June...