Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Tie. Son of an iron miner, Perpich is a fire-and-brimstone populist from northern Minnesota. As a boy, he shared a bed with two younger brothers. He delights in recalling that on his wedding day in 1954, his father Anton told him to leave behind "that pen you got when you left the eighth grade-one of your brothers can use it." Perpich became a dentist and was elected in 1962 to the state senate, where he pushed mining companies to pay more state taxes and reclaim pit-mined land. Predicted Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota...
TENNESSEE: ANTI-CANDY POPULIST...
...Senator, Sasser will vote most often with the moderates. He claims to be a Carter-style populist and a disciple of Gore and the late Estes Kefauver. Sasser's manner, Kennedy-esque good looks and ready wit mark him as an attractive Senate newcomer worth watching-particularly since he will have a close, and grateful, friend in the White House...
MISSOURI: POPULIST INSURGENT
...tough-talking Teasdale favored a constitutional amendment exempting food and drugs from the state sales tax, proposed upping taxes on "giant corporations" to raise higher new revenues, and argued for stronger controls on utility charges. Missouri voters, in a populist mood, seemed to like his ideas-and turned a rising star into a falling...