Word: pressler
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South Dakota is the scene of another such case, bizarre in its own way. Last week Republican Senator Larry Pressler spent the opening minutes of his debate with Democratic challenger Tim Johnson insisting that "some of the things that have been said in the campaign in the last two weeks of a personal nature are despicable and totally false." Pressler didn't spell out what those were, but most South Dakotans would have known. In September, former Senator James Abourezk, a Democrat, had arranged for Alexander Cockburn, a columnist for the left-leaning weekly Nation, to make several appearances around...
...South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler wins his hotly contested re-election battle, he may owe it to help from an unlikely source: a little-read Washington expose that describes him as "an imbecile of fantastic proportions" and suggests that he is gay. Pressler is making the book's rumors, and his contention that his opponent helped spread them, the cornerstone of his unorthodox bid for a fourth term. Depending on whom you ask, Pressler's crusade is either a principled stand against mudslinging or a shrewdly cynical attempt to win votes by presenting himself as a victim...
...such antigay conservatives as Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, is gay. Also damaging are news reports suggesting that D'Amato's Senate-campaign committee has been spending money in a way that favors Finkelstein-directed races. At D'Amato's urging, several G.O.P. candidates, including Boschwitz, Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota and Representative Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, have replaced their strategists with Finkelstein. The candidates were apparently rewarded for this: D'Amato's committee bankrolled TV attacks against the Democratic opponents of Boschwitz, Pressler and Zimmer...
...JOHNSON Democrat--South Dakota The popular five-term House member touted his moderate voting record to beat three-term incumbent Larry Pressler, who outspent him by almost $1 million...
...colleagues found him personally aloof, they also knew no one worked harder to ease their lives, rescheduling votes around fund raisers, personal trips, the school play. Dole liked to hold court in the cloakroom, ear to the ground, counting votes, making wisecracks. Larry Pressler, an occasionally clueless South Dakotan, was a favorite target. Dole once came down to the Senate well during a vote and said out loud, so everyone could hear, "Don't know which way to go on this one. How did Pressler vote?" Even the clerks would start to laugh. But then it would be Dole...