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Cuban-born Birtley, who immigrated to the U.S. at age 20, wants to unseat six-term incumbent Thomas Manton to "improve the quality of life" in the Seventh. She signed a "taxpayer-protection" pledge to fight income tax increases, and supports increased choice in education. Birtley is pro-choice, but...
A moderate with appeal to the district's Democratic majority, Brown seems to have made good on his pledge to put leadership above partisanship. He founded food, a local charity that gets fresh produce to 70,000 people each month, and organized aid for victims of the 1989 earthquake and...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The vast majority of Americans believe in God. We acknowledge him in our Pledge of Allegiance, our currency, our songs and even the motto of the state of Ohio. God is evident in our lives, let's put him back into our schools."
Coburn broke a 74-year-old mold by winning this seat, which had been the Democrats' since 1920. With no political experience, he promised to read every bill that crossed his desk and burned lots of midnight oil fulfilling the pledge. (He also kept delivering babies on weekends.) A devotee...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I would never make a pledge to an extreme radical group who puts preservationist, radical environmentalism ahead of people and jobs."