Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this November, as voters today choose between two gubernatorial candidates with very different visions and styles, as well as vote on important ballot initiatives on campaign finance reform and electricity deregulation, voters will likely come out to vote again in small numbers...
...flame-throwing challenger Linda Smith, a second-term Republican Congresswoman, has built a reputation for trashing money-grubbing colleagues whose spines drip into their shoes at the mere mention of campaign-finance reform. "When have I ever been obedient?" she was overheard asking an aide by telephone last week...
Health-care reform is overdue. Relief from pain, suffering and fear of death carries a price as a free-market product. But the real buyers are the government and health-insurance middlemen. American health care comprises an elaborate structure. Backstage, courageous nurses and ethical physicians keep things from falling apart. Reforming America's most powerful cartel requires enormous political courage. Wallowing with Kenneth Starr is safer. THOMAS A. MCGOFF Moscow...
...candidate for Governor of Minnesota, Ventura, 47, has hung up his boa and no longer espouses cheating. But to the state's Democrats and Republicans, the former wrestler, actor and radio shock jock is still playing the bad guy. Most observers had considered Ventura's shoestring Reform Party campaign an entertaining sideshow to the main event. Then a new poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock at about 35% each...
...wrestling fans, perhaps. But could the Body be a credible Governor? Steve Schier, chair of the political-science department at Carleton College, puts Ventura in the emerging populist tradition of Minnesota, a state that in 1992 gave 24% of its vote to Reform Party founder Ross Perot and in this decade has elected populists of both the left and the right--Democrat Paul Wellstone and Republican Rod Grams--to the U.S. Senate. Ventura's campaign slogan--"Retaliate in '98"--fits the tradition...