Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican and the Democrat were perfect fall guys for him. The Republican was an ex-Democrat and glibness on wheels, and his big smile looked as if he'd worked on it all summer. The Democrat reminded you of your classic, cheerfully clueless high school principal. Both of them had that tendency common to career politicians of putting their mouths into gear with their minds only partly engaged. They blathered. This made Jesse look like Abe Lincoln...
...retiring as Georgia Governor with an 80% approval rating, and the lottery is being hailed as the secret to the Democratic Party's astonishing rebirth in the South. Last week in Alabama and South Carolina, two states that had been trending hard toward the G.O.P., Democrats ousted sitting Republican Governors by single-mindedly pledging to follow Georgia into the scratch-and-win business. Political consultants predict the issue will dominate next year's legislative session in Tennessee and the Governor's race in North Carolina in the year...
...notably the HOPE Scholarship, which pays state-college tuition for any Georgia high school graduate who maintains a B average. The scholarship, which has sent more than 330,000 students to college, has in a few short years attained sacred-cow status in the Peach State. The Democratic and Republican candidates to succeed Miller, each of whom once opposed a lottery, practically fell over one another to pledge HOPE's continuation. In Alabama and South Carolina, Democrats Don Siegelman and Jim Hodges both promised scholarship programs virtually identical to Georgia...
...giddy, frenetic days of early 1995, after the Republican Party had taken control of Congress for the first time in four decades, a document circulated among the staff of the new Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. It was five pages long, and on each page was a series of interconnected boxes. There were more than 50 boxes in all, each labeled with a particular project of the Speaker's--in those days the Speaker had projects the way cats have kittens. The projects ranged from the commonplace, like tax cuts, to the arcane, like the development of Internet technology...
Frequent passengers on company planes are members of the House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans both--the people who make corporate welfare possible. In fact, lawmakers seem to end up on the corporate jets of the very same businesses that contribute to their campaigns or seek regulatory favors. Like Jesse Helms, the five-term North Carolina Republican Senator, who flies about in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. planes and often takes to the floor of the Senate to support the tobacco industry. Under congressional rules, House and Senate members are permitted to fly on company planes if they pay the equivalent...