Word: precinct
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Michigan's convoluted convention contraption moves into high gear on May 27, the deadline for filing petitions to run in the 5,904 precinct elections to be held in early August. Those selected will meet at district conventions in January 1988 to elect delegates to a state convention, and they in turn will choose the delegates who will go on to the national convention. Michigan's will be the first Republican delegates chosen, and that may help the state steal some of the thunder from the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. But as former Governor George Romney, 78, notes...
Part of the reason it has got out of hand is that Bush and Kemp are both making the Michigan precinct races a test of their early strength. Bush has been in Michigan seven times in the past year; Kemp has visited nine times since the beginning of 1985 and returns again this Saturday.Bush's political- action committee has raised some $400,000 in the state, $150,000 of which will be spent there; the Michigan Opportunity Society, which supports Kemp, will have raised and spent about $150,000 by May 27. Although Robert Dole and Howard Baker have pretty...
...cutting Portland's high burglary rate, which topped the nation's three years running, Harrington created a juvenile division that worked to prevent truancy, thus reducing daytime burglaries. But to pay for it she eliminated the vice and drug division, giving its duties to already overworked detectives and precinct officers. Critics charged that this led to an increase in Portland's drug trade...
...chief has further angered her subordinates by limiting smoking on the job. Each precinct is allowed only one office and one squad car in which smoking is permitted. Harrington has reprimanded officers who abuse citizens. Last year she banned the use of the carotid ("sleeper") hold after a Portland policeman used the neck grip and inadvertently killed a black security guard who had no criminal record. Two officers responded to the ban by selling T shirts inscribed DON'T CHOKE 'EM. SMOKE 'EM. Harrington had the officers fired, but they were reinstated by an arbitrator...
...Marcos partisans. In a telephone conversation with Marcos just after the voting, Laxalt observed that certain aspects of the elections had been "rather strange," such as reports that Marcos had carried one province by a vote of 13,000 to 0. That was not a province, it was a precinct, said Marcos, and "it was family." When Laxalt answered, "I doubt very much if I ran in my home district I would get all the votes of my family," Marcos, who knew that the Senator's parents were French Basque immigrants, replied, "Well, Filipinos are more clannish than you independent...