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This year’s race for DNC Chair was a referendum on the role of state and local Democratic organizations. Every candidate for Chairman paid lip-service to empowering state party organizations, but only Dr. Dean has the experience to truly give power to local activists. During his presidential primary campaign, Dr. Dean used the internet and a unique style of organizing to enable his supporters to plan and execute their own strategies. His supporters spontaneously organized community service projects, rallies and rock concerts. By basing control of his campaign on the grassroots, Dr. Dean gave his campaign...
Proponents of Travaglini’s bill have said publicly that they hope to encourage further research at Harvard and other scientific institutions in Massachusetts, which currently face competition from the west coast. California voters approved a referendum last November to offer $3 billion to support stem cell research...
...Ibarretxe ordered regional elections moved up by a month after the Spanish national parliament overwhelmingly rejected his proposal for greater Basque autonomy. An increase in support for Ibarretxe's moderate Basque Nationalist Party in the April 17 poll would boost his plans to put the autonomy proposal to a referendum in the region. Campaign Blues ZIMBABWE The main opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), announced it had decided "with a heavy heart" to participate in March 31 parliamentary elections, although it maintained that restrictions on the media and security laws would prevent a fair campaign. The MDC vowed last...
...Kurds, election day was as much an opportunity to claim their stake in a new Iraq as to affirm their reluctance to be part of Iraq at all. In tents outside official polling stations, a movement demanding a referendum on Kurdish independence collected signatures with permission of the main Kurdish political parties, whose voters proclaim their desire for independence even as party leaders look to arrange the next best thing in the form of maximum autonomy from Baghdad. The flashpoint, of course, comes in cities where Kurds and Arabs (and in some cases Turkmen) compete for control, none more...
...cabinet. The prime minister and cabinet must be confirmed by the Assembly, giving Iraq its first democratic government since the fall of Saddam. It will, nonetheless, be a caretaker government, primarily responsible for drafting a new constitution by August 15. If that draft constitution is approved in a nationwide referendum scheduled for October 15, it becomes the basis for a third nationwide vote two months later, this time for a permanent government. If the draft fails to win approval, the process will be repeated in 2006. But according to the law governing the transition, if a simple majority of voters...