Word: moakley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joseph Moakley (D-Mass.) has introduced a bill in Congress calling for a special election of the president and the vice president in the event both offices are left vacant by resignation, impeachment, disability, or death...
...Moakley said yesterday the idea for the bill came from a speech on the subject by Boston Mayor Kevin H. White which "sparked my imagination...
...Moakley said the bill's constitutional justification originates in a law passed in 1792 and revoked 94 years later, which empowers Congress to provide for presidential succession...
...Moakley, who "took his campaign to the people" right up until election day, spoke to his supporters in the same spirit of openness and togetherness that he stressed throughout the campaign: "We're going to be the first Independent congressman to be sent to Washington in over 5000 elections." The candidate who had promised to represent "all the people" in the diverse 9th District seemed ready to fulfill that promise to the point of taking the whole district with him to Congress...
Appearing to the 65 per cent who had voted against Hicks on primary day and promising new responsive representation for the new diverse district Chy Councillor John "Joe" Moakley declared himself in. In dependent while avowedly remaining a Democrat at heart and urned the November general election for Congress into a contest between the Old and the New politics in the 9th District...