Word: pacs
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Unseating a two-term Democratic incumbent in a mostly Democratic district is a formidable task, but Gentry doesn't think it's a mission impossible. He refuses to take PAC donations for his campaign, saying he wants to reduce the corrupting influence of special-interest groups. Cutting taxes and balancing the budget top his agenda...
...acre farm after her first husband died in an accident--Leising lobbied for term limits from her seat in the Indiana Senate. She also introduced informed-consent legislation requiring Indiana women to wait 18 hours and receive counseling before an abortion. The Susan B. Anthony pro-life women's pac has endorsed Leising in her second effort to unseat 32-year incumbent Hamilton...
Kondner has the difficult task of running as a conservative in a strongly liberal district. Disturbed by the political apathy he attributes to an irresponsible Congress, he vows to support term limits and reduce the maximum PAC contribution. But after getting less than 20% of the vote in April's special-election runoff against rival Elijah Cummings, he'll have to battle that apathy--and beat...
...G.O.P. policy with his own detailed agenda. He would spare Social Security and Medicare, for example, but cut expenditures by raising the age of retirement in proportion to the increasing life-span. He supports tax policies that reward savings and investment, and the Bipartisan Clean Congress Act, which limits PAC contributions...
...Hampshire Governor and the son of a former Second District Representative, Bass has political blood. And with a few exceptions he is conservative, from voting for a balanced-budget amendment to supporting welfare reform. Last March he introduced a campaign-finance reform bill that would have reduced the maximum pac contribution from $5,000 to $1,000 and required 50% of all campaign contributions to be raised in-state...