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...talking about in the other conventions--and have a genuine debate, not an infomercial," Huffington says. She and her co-conveners--who include Scott Harshbarger of Common Cause and antipoverty activist Jim Wallis--have whittled their agenda down to three items. One day will be devoted to campaign-finance reform, the next to the growing income gap between rich and poor, and the third to "reforming"--read liberalizing--the nation's drug laws...
During her tenure, Swift said she has focused on issues of education reform and economic development...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush - scion of old WASPs, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" now and then over lethal injections - as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...
Bush is hoping the personal really is the political. He has unveiled some substantive policy proposals, but his advisers know that voters won't elect him on the basis of his plan to partly privatize Social Security or his promise to reform Section 8 housing. Bush faces the apathy born of prosperity. "I just can't remember a time when the public's been so tuned out of a presidential campaign," says Ronald Reagan's famous imagemaker, Michael Deaver. "People are going to make their decision based on the impression a candidate makes more than anything else." Like John Kennedy...
Human Needs Not Corporate Greed/March for Our Lives! (Monday, August 14): Similar to the Unity2000 march in Philadelphia, this promises to be the largest demonstration of the convention's opening day. Includes participation by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), Rainforest Action Network, International Socialist Organization, Queers For Racial & Economic Justice, Radical Student League, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, Alliance for Democracy...