Word: seatings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have great respect for the people who are leaving, but I ran in the last race--unlike a lot of other candidates who are billing themselves as successors or whatever, says CCA-candidate Jonathan S. Myers, who came within 200 votes of winning a council seat in the last race. "I didn't bill myself as replications of any of those people then, nor am I doing that...
...have great respect for the people who are leaving, but I ran in the last race--unlike a lot of other candidates who are billing themselves as successors or whatever," says CCA-candidate Jonathan S. Myers, who came within 200 votes of winning a council seat in the last race. "I didn't bill myself as replications of any of those people then, nor am I doing that...
Alumni pro-divestment activists cheered when South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu won his bid for a seat on the 30-member Board of Overseers this June, but soon wondered if the election was just the sweet coating to a very bitter pill...
When Claude Pepper died last May at 88, the tenuous harmony among Hispanics, Anglos and blacks in his Miami congressional district seemed to depart with him. Last week Republican State Senator Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban American, won Pepper's old seat, defeating Democrat Gerald Richman 53% to 47%, after a race marked by ethnic calumny...
Republican Party chairman Lee Atwater set the tone last June by declaring that since Hispanics account for nearly 50% of the district's voters, electing a Cuban American to the seat was his "No. 1 goal." Shot back Richman, a former head of the state bar association: "This is an American seat." For the rest of the campaign, the opponents bickered over each other's alleged bigotry. Spanish radio stations added to the nastiness by charging that a vote for Richman was a vote for Fidel Castro. Although Richman won a majority of black and Anglo voters, Ros-Lehtinen...