Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...antiabortion, balanced-budget candidate running on a platform of family values and faith, many might assume that Lundy is a Republican. In fact, he's a Democrat in the conservative, Southern tradition. A former Sunday-school teacher, Lundy opposes cuts in education and wants to make schools the responsibility of local government. Cajun country will choose between two Democrats on Nov. 5, but with both running on almost identical issues, this race could be tres close...
Unlike his Democratic opponent--and many Republicans--Gryska, a former chief surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, is pro-choice. But with a socially moderate and fiscally conservative platform, he calls himself a "Weld Republican." Gryska vows to be tough on crime, abolishing parole for violent criminals, and supports Bob Dole's 15% tax cut, expanding iras and reducing the capital-gains...
...House member in the nation to lose a primary, convincingly beating the troubled incumbent 51% to 31%. In the Michigan House, Kilpatrick sponsored a bill to allow Detroit riverfront development and helped prevent the re-routing of federal highway funds from the local to the state level. Her liberal platform gives her an advantage over Stephen Hume in this Democratic district...
With a skeleton campaign crew and a promise to spend little money on his bid for Congress, Frumin was waging a low-key, coffeehouse campaign even in late summer. He emphasizes his 30 years in medicine (mostly as a psychiatrist) and is promoting a platform of universal health-care coverage. He also favors term limits, and hopes to set an example for other candidates with his largely self-funded campaign...
...almost legendary incumbent, O'Sullivan is a clear underdog. Nevertheless, he beat out five other candidates to win his party's primary, and he's gamely offering his own business experience to the First District as a change from business as usual. O'Sullivan has a straight-arrow Republican platform--he's for term limits, budget cutting and workfare--but to soften his hard-line fiscal policy he proposes a cushion of universal health care and reduced insurance rates for the self-employed...