Word: robbe
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...that the council is out to reduce labor's influence in the party. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings calls the group "divisive and harmful." Others suspect that the council is likely to become a vehicle for the 1988 presidential ambitions of some of its founders, notably Virginia Governor Charles Robb and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt...
...from the only dropout. Though the council had counted more than 40 elected officials as potential participants at the start of last week, only 23 would let their names be included in a formal list of members that the group issued a few days later. At week's end Robb, Jim Blanchard of Michigan, and Bruce Babbitt of Arizona were the only Governors remaining of ten whose names had appeared on preliminary lists (among the dropouts: Bob Graham of Florida, Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Richard Lamm of Colorado). Ohio Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar announced that she would have nothing...
...that the council has been formed, its leaders and the National Committee are making the appropriate public noises about cooperating. "We will be very supportive," says Gephardt; indeed, according to Robb, the council has + reserved an ex officio seat for Kirk should he care to join. Kirk for his part promises to put Gephardt and Babbitt on a policy council that he intends to form within the National Committee. Even so, the Democrats would be left with two bodies seeking to set policy and arguing about how to unify the party. In other words, they are acting like Democrats...
Maybe, maybe not. Governor Charles Robb of Virginia, a moderate conservative, recently urged Mondale to raise the issue of Reagan's affinities for the Religious Right. To make his point, Robb said that Falwell, a constituent, is "the most unpopular person in the state." In addition, there may be strains between the President and his strict Fundamentalist friends. Cal Thomas, vice president of Moral Majority and a syndicated columnist, has expressed a few qualms about Reagan's private life. Thomas wrote last week that the President should spend more time with his family ("He never sees his grandchildren...
Such widely different backgrounds and world views often made communication difficult between the various members of Lionel At times. It was a literal inability to communicate Gary recalls that Robb's girlfriend's mother had a Boston accent that was so thick that when she called, he took messages that said her name was "Korea," rather than "Currier," as he later realized it was. At other times, it was a case of bizarrely mixed signals. While there was no doubt that Suzy was kidding, there was also no doubt that Jeff, who was considerably smaller than her, was legitimately afraid...