Word: norquist
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...expected his new study on the inner-city drug trade would provoke debate. The main contention, based on extensive research in two poor Milwaukee neighborhoods, is that dealers should be regarded as "innovative" and "entrepreneurial" and that their "work" is driven by economics, not immorality. But Milwaukee Mayor JOHN NORQUIST has essentially put the kibosh on any substantive discussion of the professor's controversial ideas among city officials and policymakers by calling the report "twisted" and the product of "drug-addled minds." Though Hagedorn figured critics would try to label him as soft on crime, he was initially shocked...
...they seemed more like an academic exercise than achievable public policy. Factor in the fierce opposition of teachers' unions, which view vouchers as a threat to jobs, and they seemed like a very long shot. But lately vouchers have been picking up steam. Democrats like Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist and former New York Congressman Floyd Flake have joined Republicans in advocating school choice. And last week venture capitalist Ted Forstmann and Wal-Mart heir John Walton announced the Children's Scholarship Fund, a $200 million initiative to provide scholarships for 50,000 children to attend private or parochial schools...
...some California unions have backed the controversial initiative to legalize medical marijuana and opposed the popular referendum on illegal aliens. "This is one of those issues, like term limits, racial preferences and tax reform, that can't move through Washington, so it's moving through the states," says Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform...
...idea was getting nowhere until help came from Norquist's group and J. Patrick Rooney, a conservative Indiana insurance executive who had launched a privately funded school-voucher experiment in Indianapolis. Together they provided most of the financing, nearly half a million dollars, for the petition drive that put 226 on the ballot. Then California Governor Pete Wilson signed on. For Wilson, who as mayor of San Diego regularly battled public-employee unions in the 1970s, Prop. 226 also provided the satisfaction of payback to the teachers' union. Over the years, the C.T.A. has squared off against him on school...
What do Michael E. Kinsley '72, Grover G. Norquist '78 and Susan C. Faludi '81 have in common besides Harvard diplomas? All three were Crimson editors who espoused passionate and divergent political views during their undergraduate years...