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Many of the ornaments came in the form of amendments to the continuing-spending resolution and gas-tax bill. Senator Howell Heflin, an Alabama Democrat, tucked in a $1 million appropriation for channel-widening at the Franklin Ferry Bridge in his home state. John Melcher, Democratic Senator from Montana, hooked a $243,000 fish hatchery for his, and Louisiana Senator Russell Long pushed through a $5 million cloverleaf project outside Baton Rouge Even Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat, famed for his "Golden Fleece" awards for Government waste, rammed through a $1.5 million poverty-studies program at the University...
...several states, NCPAC commercials were kept off the air by victims' complaints that they were misleading or outright false, prompting NCPAC to file a federal suit charging censorship. Democratic Senator John Melcher, a veterinarian, countered a New Right commercial claiming he was "too liberal for Montana" with a TV ad of his own featuring cows. After a shot of "out-of-staters" carrying a briefcase full of money off a plane, one bemused bovine remarks, "Did ya hear about those city slickers bad-mouthing Doc Melcher? One of 'em was stepping in what they've been trying...
...Paul S. Sarbanes (D) MASS. Michael S. Dukakis (D) Edward M. Kennedy (D) MICH. James J. Blanchard (D) Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D) MINN. Rudy Perpich (D) David Durenberger (R) MISS. No Race John C. Stennis (D) MO. No Race John C. Danforth (R) MONT. No Race John Melcher (D) NEB. Bob Kerrey (D) Edward Zorinsky (D) NEV. Richard Bryan (D) * N.H. John H. Sununu (R) No Race N.J. No Race Frank R. Lautenberg (D) N.M. Toney Anaya (D) Jeff Bingaman (D) N.Y. Mario M. Cuomo (D) Daniel P. Moynihan (D) N.C. No Race No Race N.D. No Race Quentin...
...July poll gave Melcher a comfortable 54%-to-27% lead. The campaign-financing issue raised by Williams has yet to catch fire, but Melcher's camp is clearly worried. Says his manager: "It's a false issue, but the potential is there...
...Melcher's campaign slogan is "Experience you can trust." In folksy but plodding speeches, he reminds his audiences of his generally conservative voting record and hammers at high interest rates. "Reaganomics," he warns, "simply won't work with rates where they...