Word: silbering
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...Most Silber partisans also forget that without the media, their candidate would never have made it as far as he did. Silber was in danger of not receiving the requisite 15 percent of the votes at last June's Democratic state convention, but his high media image undoubtedly put him over the edge. Without that 15 percent, he would have gone the way of Alwin E. Hopfmann, an obscure bookstore owner who challenged U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 1982, but could not come up with the necessary votes at the convention...
...there's no mistaking--John Silber has made more of an impression on state politics than Hopfmann ever did, and probably ever will...
...Democratic candidate for governor John R. Silber's parting words to his supporters, after conceding defeat on election night. Silber's campaign was self-described as "straight shooting...
...Silber, an opponent of the Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT) petition, a ballot measure defeated on election night that would have rolled back taxes to 1988 levels...
...operator went on to say that she thought Kerry was too liberal to win but the governor's race was too close to call. "I hope it's not Silber though," she added...