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...with his life. This scene, which occurs at the beginning and is repeated near the end, functions as both a visual and musical refrain that emphasizes Milk’s meteoric rise and tragic fall. Much of the film deals with Milk’s multiple bids for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the different campaign tactics he tries. He runs unsuccessfully in 1975 and 1976 and is finally elected in 1977, saying in his recording that, “The movement is the candidate.” He works closely with Cleve Jones (Emile...
...tumultuous one that unfolded across decades. The youngest son in one of this country’s most influential political dynasties, Kennedy decided against a career in professional football to take up what had become the family business. He won his brother John’s vacated Senate seat in 1962—one he has held ever since. Soon thereafter, the freshman senator and his family were subjected to tragedy after tragedy—Ted’s own steadfastness a reassurance to a nation shaken by the assassinations of his brothers John and Robert. Indeed, Kennedy has come...
...closest Senate race in history - for an open New Hampshire seat in 1974 - was so tight that the candidates had to hold a second election. After Republican Louis Wyman beat Democrat John Durkin by just 355 votes, a recount gave Durkin the lead - but by only 10 votes, which meant another recount. This count gave the election back to Wyman - by two votes. Durkin asked the Senate - which had a convenient 60-vote Democratic majority - for a review of the results. Despite six weeks of debate, the Senate couldn't resolve the matter, and the two candidates agreed...
...Republican Senator, Mel Martinez, announced on Tuesday that he would not seek re-election in 2010, Jeb Bush's name wasn't exactly echoing throughout the peninsula. "I would have told you at that moment that Jeb wasn't even going to think about running" for Martinez's seat, says a prominent GOP Floridian. When Bush left office as Florida's governor last year, he insisted he wasn't interested in running for President, Senator or any other job that meant wading into the Beltway cesspool. And there was also the widely held notion that Bush, like Rudy Giuliani...
...Bush is, without a doubt, one of the smartest politicians the beleaguered Republican Party has at its disposal today. Which is why the possibility of his running for Martinez's seat probably shouldn't be such a surprise after all. When a party, to quote Jeb's former-President father, is in the kind of deep doo-doo the GOP stepped into on Nov. 4, it can't afford to let one of its top talents spend any more time taking it easy in Miami...