Word: repping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Events included one talk about Congress and the Pentagon by U.S. Rep. Glen Browder (D-Ala.) and another about the separation of powers, by former Rep. Mickey Edwards (R-Okla.), who is now a Kennedy School lecturer...
Maybe because not even the front-runner, state Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill), can boast much more than a quarter of the Democratic vote in the latest polls...
...This guy's performance isn't so wonderful that he can't be taken out," Michael Goldman, a Democratic consultant, told the New York Times last week. "Luckily for him, instead of running against [U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Cambridge)] or any other serious Democrat, he ended up with the B-team. They've got no dough and no name recognition. And the reality is that you can't beat somebody with nobody...
...Kentucky congressman and a gubernatorial candidate looked on. At a rally of about 100 people in Owensboro, Ky., Stan Arachikavitz, president of the state's Association of Tobacco Supporters, doused the dangling effigy with gasoline, then chanted "Burn, baby, burn!" as two women set it ablaze. Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith, who moments before had delivered fiery speeches themselves, distanced themselves from the stunt's more violent implications: "I certainly wouldn't have done that," Lewis said. Galbraith commented: "I didn't see it as a hate thing." White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers...
...middle of a debate on crime and healthcare on the house floor, Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont., broke out: "Big league ballplayers, major league club owners: Play ball!" (BTW: Montana doesn't even have a team...