Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wellstone, the stocky upstart who shocked Minnesota politicos with a victory in 1990, faces the same man this year; now, however, Wellstone's the incumbent. He has also ruffled stodgy senatorial feathers with his wardrobe and rambunctious speeches, but the former Carleton College professor has earned respect for his solid liberalism: he's the only Senator running for re-election who voted against the recent welfare-reform bill...
...still an energetic Democrat: he wanted to cancel the stamp honoring Richard Nixon, and is a persistent critic of Contract with America legislation. A friend of labor and sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Clay, who survived the 1992 disclosure of 328 House bank overdrafts, still seems solid...
Ferguson, a quiet candidate who has made few waves against a strong incumbent, sports a cowboy hat and says he understands his fellow residents' strong mountain values. Ferguson could be helped, in this district of tourism and parks, with his solid conservationist credentials...
...knocking off a more moderate primary opponent in 1994, LoBiondo became a loyal member of the Republican freshman class, generally sticking to the conservative policies he ran on. He has shown a soft spot for Social Security and Medicare, as well as an occasional environmental bent, but retains solid conservative credentials...
Though this district leans Republican, a solid base of blue-collar Democrats and an enclave of wealthy liberals make Forbes vulnerable. But he retains his conservative base with proposals to end parole for armed criminals and grant middle-class tax breaks. On the Armed Services Committee he has fought for defense-conversion jobs to ease the pain of military-contract cutbacks...