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...shady businessman with conservative views on social issues. Simon's opposition to abortion, gun control and environmental regulation has kept him on the defensive, while his relatively small bankroll has kept him from fighting back effectively. "This isn't a state where people have to love you to re-elect you," says Garry South, a Davis strategist. "They just have to feel that by some measure, you're a better alternative than your opponent...
...Rada members are elected directly. The rest are appointed on a proportional basis to those parties that gain 4% or more of the national vote. A number of other parties and political leaders running in the election are thought to be quietly backed by Kuchma - notably the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Viktor Medvedchuk. Russia is also openly signaling its support for Kuchma and the F.U.U. Most importantly, perhaps, Kuchma has at his disposal what is known throughout the former Soviet Union as "administrative resources" - the ability to mobilize the whole local government to re-elect the ruling party...
...should not be criticized for wanting to bring all students—not just council members—together to discuss important and controversial issues. This editorial page, which previously printed the condescending headline “Re-elect Gusmorino,” has not given Lee half-a-chance...
Like McKinnon, Lozano is a lifelong Democrat, who once worked for Ann Richards, the Democratic Governor Bush ousted from office in 1994. After falling hard for Bush, McKinnon helped re-elect the Republican Governor in 1998, becoming one of his closest advisers. Then, in 1999, McKinnon set up a company, Maverick Media, dedicated solely to Bush's presidential campaign. And when he needed someone to answer the phones and handle administrative work, he turned to Lozano, 30, a friend since 1990 who had become close to his family. Although Lozano had worked for a Democratic state legislator as recently...
Students of the period will remember Sears as one of those young Republicans, sleek as seals, who worked around Nixon and the Committee to Re-elect. Sears lost out in some White House infighting before Watergate began, but he remained closely tied to the most important figures in the White House and the party. Later he ran Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign. Today, he is a lawyer in private practice, and he is apparently incensed by Garment's theory that he is Deep Throat. "I may well sue," he angrily told Francis X. Clines of the New York Times...