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...REBAQ (Re-Elect Bush and Quayle). Main drawback: sounds like an aerobics shoe...
While the rest of the Administration worries about Scuds and tanks, a few of George Bush's advisers have turned their attention to the weighty matter of what to call the President's re-election effort. The straightforward CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President) will simply not do: too many associations with the tainted Nixon and Watergate years. Other possibilities discussed, albeit none very seriously...
Marchers chanted "rent control is out ofcontrol" in front of the Lowell St. home ofpro-rent control City Councilor Francis H. Duehay'55. The shades were drawn on the house and no oneanswered the megaphone-enhanced shouts, althoughthere was a beige Toyota Corolla in the drivewaywith a "Re-elect Duehay" bumper sticker...
...agents of an old one. After contacting two of the magazine's supposed representatives, she was informed that the students intended to publish on a daily basis. Further inquiries elicited the information that the new group was funded by none other than Richard Nixon and the Committee to Re-elect the President...
FRANK made serious mistakes, as he is the first to acknowledge. But House members are elected to be legislators, not saints. Why else did Massachusetts voters re-elect Rep. Gerry Studds after he had sex with teenage Congressional pages? How else could Missouri voters send Republican Rep. Bill Emerson back to Congress despite his history of alcoholism? The history of Congress is full of examples of constituents forgiving their representatives...