Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives near his native Boston. Viewing all men and women as strong and sensible, weak and full of faults, Coles voices faith in America: "This is the world's richest and most powerful nation, so it has not only the potentiality but the immediate possibility for reform...
Price Daniel Jr., 33, son of a former Texas Governor and U.S. Senator, started his own legislative career as a moderate Democrat in the Texas house. When the Sharpstown State Bank scandals erupted three years ago, the young lawyer-politician led the way in drafting reform legislation for financial disclosure by state officials, public access to government documents and open campaign financing. At 29, he was elected speaker of the house. Last year Daniel resigned this post to become president of the constitutional convention charged with revising the state's 98-year-old constitution. Thanks to his image...
Jerry Apodaca, 40, was a successful insurance and real estate man in Las Cruces before he won a state senate seat in 1966. Three years later he became chairman of the legislature's reform-minded school study committee and head of New Mexico's Democratic Party. "If you're right on the issues, you may get in trouble with the politicians but not with the people," says Apodaca, who beat his closest opponent by just over 10,000 votes in a six-man scramble for the gubernatorial nomination last month. Supported by labor, Chicano activists and liberals...
...state. A former law instructor and attorney for the National Labor Relations Board Schroeder is a Portland, Ore., native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years from the University of Minnesota and earned a Harvard doctorate. In her re-election campaign she is emphasizing the need for congressional reform, improved mass transit and better child-care facilities...
...California state chairman (60,000 members) and serves on the national governing board. A Yale law graduate, Walsh wants to clean up the U.S. political system. This June he made an impressive start, leading the successful fight for passage of California's Proposition 9, a tough political-reform act restricting campaign spending and lobbyists' activities and requiring strict reporting of contributions...