Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billed by his campaign manager as an "urban populist," Courtney said his constituency consists primarily of working class tenants, and unemployed workers throughout the city. Courtney also said that his primary issues are rent control, which he supports, and the deterioration of Cambridge's neighborhoods, which he opposes...
...year. So what if she favors strict rent control laws or that she has spent much time trying to arrange low interest loans to home-owners, or that she has voted for every downzoning petition proposed by Cambridge neighborhood groups. Graham will be re-elected because she is a populist in the old Mary "Raise-Less-Corn-More-Hell" Lease tradiiton. And Cambridge, with its Proportional Representation system, is a town that lends itself to electing populists if they have enough clout and identity with specific neighborhoods...
...especially from liberal Democrats. Said Seymour Posner, a state assemblyman from The Bronx: "I got a call at 3:30 today telling me what the party line is. By 4 o'clock, I was already being threatened." Democratic liberals in the assembly, particularly blacks and Puerto Ricans, harbored populist fears that the bankers, who advise Carey and demand austerities, were about to take over the city. "They have no feeling for the poor," said Buffalo Assemblyman Arthur Eve. City Councilman Theodore Weiss echoed a familiar hyperbole: "This may be the last day for democracy in New York...
...polls in the April election. This would mean that the Socialists and the Popular Democrats, who together won 64% of the vote, would dominate a new Cabinet. The Communists, on the basis of their electoral showing of 12.5%, would become a distinct minority. To win the support of the populist Saraiva de Carvalho, who had previously opposed a traditional party system, the moderates reportedly offered to allow local workers' commissions...
What gives Drinkhall-and Overdrive-their franchise to hunt is the populist philosophy of the magazine's editor-publisher and sole owner, Michael Parkhurst. New Jersey-born Parkhurst, 41, became an owner-operator trucker at 17 but sold his rig after ten years and used the money to start Overdrive in Los Angeles, a major trucking center. He wanted "to wake the truckers up to the fact that they're slaves to a monopoly." Parkhurst would visit truck stops by horse for publicity, but service, not stunts, made Overdrive. It dug, exposed, and above all helped out. There...