Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MASSACHUSETTS. In perhaps the most consistently liberal state in the nation, Edward J. King, a onetime guard for the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts, preached tax-cutting to unseat incumbent Governor Michael Dukakis in the Democratic primary. Dukakis and liberals around the country are still not sure exactly what hit him. "Incumbentitis," the mere fact of holding office in this surprising, restless year, was doubtless a factor. In addition, Dukakis, though far from a big-spending liberal, had raised taxes after promising in his 1974 campaign that he would not. King is clearly to the right of his Republican opponent...
...Governor Jerry Brown when he elevated Bird to the court from her prior post as head of the state's agriculture and services agency. "She is vindictive, snaps back and is autocratic as she can be," charges conservative State Senator Hubert Leon ("Bill") Richardson, who launched the campaign to unseat her. Richardson accuses the judge of poor administration and using judicial appointments to consolidate her own political power. Off the record, a few of her colleagues on the court echo the last complaint. Of Bird's practice of using lower court judges to fill temporary vacancies on the supreme court...
Politicians with elections soon ahead of them were especially quick to pick up the antitax cry. Seeking to unseat Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis, who has been tightfisted himself. Republican Candidate Edward F. King is pushing an amendment that would put a cap of 9% of total personal income on all taxes levied in the state...
...JERSEY (June 6). As some 4,500 rock music fans roared in the Rutgers Athletic Center, Performers Paul Simon, Melissa Manchester and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players helped raise money for former New York Knicks Basketball Star Bill Bradley in his uphill fight to unseat four-term Republican Senator Clifford Case. Singer Patti Smith, cavorting in tight silver pants, with an American flag draped over her shoulders, set her sights even higher. "Let's put a jock in the White House," she bellowed. "He's a smart...
Takeover artists are often suspected of wanting to tap the till of the target company, but hardly any ever admit it-let alone boast about it. An exception is T. Roland Berner, chairman of Curtiss-Wright, who is campaigning to unseat directors of Kennecott Copper and install his own board in a shareholder election May 2. In the most unusual proxy statement in recent years, Berner last week vowed that if Curtiss-Wright gets control, it will distribute some $660 million of Kennecott's assets to stockholders-who prominently include Curtiss-Wright. It owns 3.3 million Kennecott shares...