Word: olver
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...JOHN OLVER (D) District 1 (West--Berkshire Hills; Fitchburg; Amherst...
...Olver is a pro-choice liberal who has fought for education and health-care reform, including a 100% health-insurance tax deduction for the self-employed. He is against cuts in Title 1 (for low-income elementary and high school students), Head Start and student-loan programs; he secured $225,000 for Internet access for his district's schools; and in a district that is home to eight of the state's 30 public colleges, he supports tax breaks for tuition...
...what I felt when Massachussetts Governor Bill Weld gerrymandered my hometown--Northampton--out of the 1st congressional district for the sole purpose of trying to get a Republican into Massachusetts' delegation. The summer after 10th grade, I had spent a month volunteering for the campaign of my congressman, John Olver, a retired UMass chemistry professor. I had attended his frenetic victory party, filled with hope for this system I had--or so I thought--learned to work within. Liberalism had its moment in the sun and I felt a part...
Then, all of a sudden, my representative in Washington was whisked away from me, and slick-haired Richie Neal--a Democrat, yes, but no Olver--was now my representative. In spite of the hopeful fact that a new party was also on the brink of winning the presidency for the first time since I was almost too small to remember, Weld's move shook me. It was that easy for the governor to render months, even years, of grassroots organizing in Northampton--Olver's stronghold and home base--completely useless at the following election. While Weld's move didn...
...Olver's colleagues on the BudgetCommittee share his view, however...