Word: planked
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Candidates Jon R. Maddox and Tony J. Knopp have both adopted budget reform as the primary plank in their platforms, arguing that the district's $84 million budget is unjustified...
...other plank of its campaign also spoke to the decentralization of power. PUCC was ready to demand student input into every committee making decisions on undergraduate life. That would have been a far reach for an organization that fares well only in the gauzy realm of gala balls...
Perhaps a pro-abortion plank might help Specter against a pro-abortion Democrat in a general election. But it certainly won't help him secure the Republican nomination, especially since conservative forces play a key role in the process. Fortunately for Republican solidarity, Specter's candidacy will never see the light...
...America needs to be governed from the center," he says. Specter offers a mix of fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism. He is the party's lone pro-choice candidate and speaks out against government's imposing religious values. Opponents claim that by calling for the removal of the antiabortion plank from the party platform, he is exacerbating old wounds at the expense of the party. Specter claims the opposite: that keeping the provision divides the party by shutting out pro-choice members. On domestic and fiscal issues, Specter's conservative critics have less room for complaint. As a former district...
...divisive, which is why the candidates are fudging and hoping to remove the human-life plank from the platform. Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed, a proponent of a stealth strategy whereby state and local candidates obscure their social agenda until after they get elected, had been keeping his troops in line on abortion until the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster brought it to center stage. Reed then announced that the coalition would not support a pro-choice candidate, but he pressed no further. "Some would like us to begin the debate today," he says. "But we're not going...