Word: mrazek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Democrats have resorted to using scare tactics to further their own ends. New York Congressman Robert Mrazek recently told wavering Jewish constituents that "Jesse Jackson's influence in the Democratic Party would be far greater in the event of a Dukakis loss than in a Dukakis Administration...
Congress and a growing number of slow-growth rebels have joined the preservationists. "What price are we willing to put on our heritage?" asks Congressman Robert Mrazek, a New York Democrat whose office walls are lined with photographs of Civil War generals. "You can't hallow the sacrifice of those soldiers who died fighting for freedom with a Burger King or a Bloomingdale's." Mrazek and Texas Democrat Michael Andrews have introduced legislation authorizing the Federal Government to seize Stuart's Hill from the developers, at a cost of $35 million or more...
...While Mrazek and 200 allies on Capitol Hill hope to bring the bill to a vote next month, Annie Snyder and her supporters are sniping from the grass-roots level. "We have Save the Battlefield battalions forming across the U.S.," she says. "Schoolchildren and veterans are writing and sending money." A former Marine officer, Snyder, 66, is a veteran of Manassas campaigns. In 1973 she fought to stop an amusement park planned for the same spot. For that victory, this Yankee from Pittsburgh was awarded the Jefferson Davis medal by the United Daughters of the Confederacy...
Sixty House Republicans defected from the administration and voted to override. Only one Democrat, Robert Mrazek of New York, a strong advocate of free trade, voted to sustain the president...