Word: spender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Culver is at his bombastic best before large groups, Grassley is in his element in one-on-one encounters with voters, on street corners, at coffees, in backyards. He is trying to focus his campaign on the economy. Says he: "I am diametrically opposed to John Culver, the biggest spender in the Senate. He has never voted against a single spending bill to come out of the Senate. These policies have brought the U.S. economy to its knees." By contrast, Grassley has regularly opposed foreign aid and voted no on many spending bills, including the 1979 bill to raise Congressmen...
Buckley faults Dodd as a big spender and for "consistently supporting Carter's willingness to allow the U.S. strategic position to erode." Buckley favors a bigger defense budget, a 10% tax cut and total decontrol of energy prices. Like many other liberals this year, Dodd calls for a moderate buildup of conventional military forces and restoration of price controls on all domestic...
...West Virginia native and real estate millionaire who hopes to ride a conservative, pro-Reagan tide into office. Huff is backed by a variety of conservative political-action committees, including antiabortion and evangelical religious groups. He attacks Udall as too liberal, too weak on defense, too big a spender and too busy in Washington to care for his constituents. Says Huff: "I make no bones about it. I am pro-busiess; Mo is antibusiness. He does not represent the conservative philosophy of Arizona...
...encounters a skeptical middle-class audience, his voice goes flat and he often seems to lose interest. Kennedy's fervent defense of Government programs such as nutrition for the elderly and low-income housing please those directly affected, but they also confirm his image as a big spender. Alone among all major candidates, Kennedy denounces the resolve to have a balanced budget as the pursuit of a "myth...
...best orator on the Republican circuit. His experience as Texas Governor, Treasury Secretary and Navy Secretary was unmatched by any of his rivals. But voters rejected him personally. Inside the G.O.P., Connally was too well remembered as an associate of Lyndon Johnson, accused by Republicans of being the biggest spender of them all. He even talked like Johnson. His indictment, trial and acquittal in the milk-fund case that grew out of Watergate remained damaging. His toughness, his slickness, made him seem the wheeler-dealer. And rather than run away from that image, he tried to exploit it. Says Campaign...