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Republicans too are endangered by their connections with the scandal. One example is Congressman Charles Pashayan of California. A six-term veteran who appeared safe, Pashayan is now struggling to survive a challenge from Democrat Cal Dooley because the Congressman accepted $26,000 from Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan four years ago. In Oregon, Republican Denny Smith is also vulnerable. He was a director of a failed S&L, and Democrats charge that he tried to influence federal regulators. His opponent, Mike Kopetski, a former state legislator, had a 10-point lead last week. Ironically, Smith won his seat...
...solution that the six-term Democrat has relied on for the past 13 years is raising some eyebrows in his hometown of Barre, and causing Cambridge politicos to choose sides once more in one of the city's perennial battles...
Another view is that Newt Gingrich is a visionary. An impassioned reformer, the six-term lawmaker from Jonesboro, Ga., brings innovative thinking and a respect for deeply felt American values to the House...
Dick Cheney is perhaps the only good thing to come out of the John Tower mess. The six-term Wyoming Congressman and new Defense Secretary-designate is many of the things Tower was not: a gentlemanly lawmaker whose low-key style belies his tenacity; a conservative who wins plaudits from colleagues in both parties; a straight arrow whose spotless personal history includes a 25-year marriage to his high school sweetheart Lynne Cheney, 47, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney, 48, even passes the all-important Sam Nunn character test. The Georgia Democrat hailed...
When Alvin E. Thompson won the Democratic nomination for state representave from Cambridge, his opponent, six-term incumbent Saundra Graham acknowledged that she had taken her victory for granted. Last Tuesday, Thompson faced tough opposition from Graham--even though this time her name didn't appear on the ballot...