Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COLLECTIVE SIGN of relief could be heard from Democrats all around the country Monday, as they began to take stock of Sunday's debate between Walter F. Mondale and President Reagan. In Illinois, Rep. Paul E. Simon bould breathe a little bit easier in his effort to unseat Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Charles H. Percy, while in North Carolina Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. stiffened his back as he prepared to block the resurgence of Republican Jesse A. Helms in their Senate battle. And right here at home, one got the feeling that Lt. Gov. John E. Kerry had some...
Percy faces a rough challenge from five-term Congressman Paul Simon, a southern Illinois liberal. Simon is known for his trademark bow ties and hornrimmed glasses and for his effectiveness on Capitol Hill: he had more of his bills passed this year than any other member of the House. Percy, although chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee since 1980, has never pushed through a major bill of his own. Polls show the candidates in a virtual dead heat. Simon has won over many black and Jewish voters who in the past had supported Percy in his more liberal incarnation...
...Simon has stayed on the offensive for most of this bitterly fought campaign, in which each side is expected to spend $3 million. He is trying to make an issue of the Senator's inconsistency. Some of his ads ask: "Where will Charles Percy stand tomorrow? Only his pollster knows for sure." Percy's commercials tout "the Illinois advantage," alluding to his seniority, and attack Simon for sponsoring a symbolic bill in 1983 that would create a box on income tax returns for taxpayers to check if they do not want their payments to be used...
...court lacks "a great articulator" in the mold of Holmes or Louis Brandeis, says Federal Judge Simon Rifkind. Burger has not emerged as a strong voice. Courtly and white-maned, almost regal in appearance, he seems more comfortable with his ceremonial and administrative duties than at deciding cases. At the court's weekly conferences, he sometimes strikes other Justices as ill prepared and indecisive. When Burger changed his vote repeatedly in one case, Justice Byron White reportedly threw down his pencil and declared, "Jesus Christ, here we go again...
According to O'Brien, at least part of the Lampoon's will be in the form of a donation of books by Simon and Schuster to the Lampoon's library...