Word: spent
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Progressive Governor Hiram Johnson introduced the ballot initiative in 1911 so that California voters could bypass a state legislature controlled by self- interested businessmen. This year, however, all but two of the state's 29 initiatives were sponsored by special interests, which spent a record $130 million. Yet Johnson would have been pleased by the public's ability to resist high-powered persuasion. The insurance industry spent $75 million backing four contradictory and confusing auto-insurance referendums. All were defeated, and a consumer initiative calling for deep cuts in auto, home and $ commercial insurance rates seemed close enough to ensure...
Maryland voters also rejected a megabuck lobbying effort. The National Rifle Association spent $5 million in an effort to kill a new state law regulating the manufacture and sale of cheap handguns. Voters approved the legislation overwhelmingly...
Lucky for Dukakis. At the endorsement ceremony, Koch spent less time praising Gore than attempting to bury Jackson. Standing like an uncomfortable visiting nephew at Koch's side, Gore was splattered by the flying mud. On primary day, he got only 10% of the vote, thus assuring Dukakis the nomination...
...advertising, became the clown prince of debate prep. He joked with Bush, teased him, made him laugh. He told Bush at one point, "If he brings up Iran- contra, just walk over there and deck him." When Bush returned to the Beverly Hills Hotel, he received a massage and spent the final 45 minutes before the debate with Ailes...
...ghost of the retiring William Proxmire haunted the race in Wisconsin, where Democrat Herbert Kohl turned Proxmire's legendary frugality on its head, yet somehow convinced voters that he most resembled their departing hero. A multimillionaire bachelor, Kohl, 53, spent $5 million of his own money to defeat Susan Engeleiter, 36, the Republican leader in the state senate. When Proxmire won re-election in 1982, he spent just $145. Yet, like Proxmire, Kohl refused contributions from special-interest groups and ran a populist, soak- the-rich campaign, calling for tax hikes for the wealthy. His affluence, he contended, meant that...