Word: repping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote was particularly crucial in California and also in Florida and Arizona, two states that went Democratic for the first time in decades largely because of the Latino vote. The emergent political power of Latinos was evident in the race for California's 46th district, where Loretta Sanchez defeated Rep. Bob Dornan, known for his rhetorical bombast and unreconstructed xenophobia. The Republicans' attempts to restrain immigration and to cut back health and educational benefits for legal immigrants did not win them favor among Latino (or Asian) voters. Unless the Republican Party can purge itself of its recurrent tendencies toward nativism...
...face up to what I might have wrought. It was possible that some completely innocent sales rep, flying from New York to Chicago as part of an unsung but fundamentally noble effort to support his deserving family, was suffering agonizing hunger pangs because I had made an offhand remark in an uncharacteristic moment of revulsion...
...spokesperson from Rep. Thompson's office said the way Flaherty's career ended is irrelevant to their aims in trying to name the bridge after...
Activists should use conventional political strategies to advance their cause, rather than employing alienating or violent tactics, said Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.) in an address to a gay rights conference at the Law School on Saturday...
...Rep. Steve Largent (R-Neb.) skipped the Harvard seminar because the Heritage Foundation invited him first, according to his press secretary...