Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Innelli takes on Curt Weldon for the second time in a district where Republicans outnumber Democrats 2 to 1. Borrowing a page from the Clinton playbook, however, he runs with what is usually a Republican platform: family values...
Sanford is unopposed for the second of a self-imposed three-term-maximum House career. A political outsider first elected on a platform of term limits and campaign-finance reform, he is a budget cutter with a 100% ranking from the Citizens Against Government Waste, drawing criticism from his party for voting against a bill--because of a $2 billion increase in defense--that would have brought money to his state for social programs...
Bigham, owner of Thursdays Too restaurant in Rock Hill, burst onto the political scene in 1994, coming within four points of beating incumbent John Spratt--who had never won with less than 61% of the vote. Better known than two years ago, Bingham is determined to carry his reformist platform to victory, advocating term limits, citizen legislators and limitations on PAC contributions, while linking his opponent to Clinton's "liberal agenda...
Dismissing talk of Sheila Jackson-Lee's 1994 landslide, White preaches a G.O.P. platform that includes downsizing the Federal Government and putting control of social-program dollars back into local hands. Complicating White's political plans, two new Republicans have joined the race...
Hendry appreciates the fact that the 30th is a Democratic district that incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson drew for herself. He believes he can claim it for for the Republicans by proposing a platform of tort reform, gasoline-tax reduction, closure of the IRS, term limits, law and order, family values, the right to life, and limited government. It is likely Hendry will face Johnson again in a runoff...