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Peixoto, who made an unsuccessful bid in 1999 for a council seat, says he decided to run again this year when he heard that one-term CCA councillor Jim Braude—known for his liberal stances on everything from street perfomance ordinances to zoning—had decided against running...
Besides his eagerness to pound the pavement, Murphy has timing on his side. He is running on the slate of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the local activist liberal party, in the same season that both four-term CCA veteran Councillor Kathleen L. Born and one-term CCA Councillor Jim Braude announced that they wouldn’t seek reelection...
...fact that Luken would have run virtually unopposed. Having raised just $20,000, Fuller has moved from the suburbs into an apartment in town and is running a grass-roots campaign while courting business leaders. Luken, however, is a seasoned pro, a Cincinnati mayor in the '80s and one-term Congressman. He has been forming "reconciliation committees" and taking other steps to mend race relations...
...news the very next day that a Massachusetts company was trying to clone embryos for the same reason--got everyone's blood up. "The blast faxes have been going all morning," said a pro-lifer who was lobbying the White House. There were many fevered comparisons to W.'s one-term dad. Conservatives hold it to be gospel truth that the old man ruined himself by breaking a campaign promise. Would this be W.'s version of "no new taxes...
...sell the Mexican public on the idea, he will still have to get the measure approved by a Congress whose members, by law, cannot succeed themselves, giving them little incentive to respond to public opinion. But that too may be changing because of rising awareness that one-term members of Congress lack the expertise to check and balance the presidency effectively...