Word: mitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, I happened to tune in to a CNN program that included as one of its guests Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a leading opponent of campaign-finance reform. In dismissing the notion that the cost of a political campaign these days is bound to make politicians beholden to fat-cat contributors, Senator McConnell said Americans spend less on political campaigns than they do on yogurt. By chance, I was eating a container of yogurt when he said that. Blueberry...
Princeton inbounded the ball, dribbled it up the court and then Mitch Henderson, Princeton's starting shooting guard, turned it over as junior Michael Scott stole the ball...
...soon as it looked like Harvard might have a chance for a comeback, Princeton's offense took charge as Tiger Mitch Henderson drove the ball down the lane and layed it up for an easy...
Feingold refers to the ringleader of the resistance, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, as "the Grim Reaper of campaign-finance reform." But majority leader Trent Lott is the key player, and he resists reforms like free TV time for candidates and public financing of campaigns, which he calls "food stamps for politicians." Feingold insists that Lott doesn't "want to be tagged as the person who killed campaign reform. He's leaving the door open." But privately, aides to the G.O.P. leadership say it's pretty well shut...
...case of campaign-finance reform, Clinton may not care; Gore's need to raise money for 2000 clashes with Clinton's desire to rehabilitate himself on the issue. Since Clinton knows that Senator Mitch McConnell and other Republicans will throw themselves in the way of any reform bill, Clinton can push for it without having to concern himself that it will actually happen. To prove he's serious about the matter, Clinton would have to go beyond a legislative proposal and orchestrate an immense grass-roots campaign, a full-throated national roar so long and loud that reform becomes inevitable...