Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still too early to tell if the Republicans' biggest gamble will pay off: namely, an all-out effort to unseat the House Democratic leaders. Republicans thought they discerned substantial erosion in the Democratic elders' home bases, and indeed some weakness has been exposed. Acknowledges House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The people who put them in Congress in the first place are no longer around. Their organizations are not there...
...complicated blend of personalities and issues. But in the Senate, two contests this year offer voters clear ideological choices. The issues do matter and may dominate the outcome. In the House, some G.O.P. leaders are making an unprecedented and, some old hands would say, most unsportsmanlike effort to unseat several of their Democratic counterparts, contrary to clubby tradition...
...generations, that has been the gentlemanly tradition. Despite their sometimes fiery fights in the House, the leaders of the two parties-the top half-dozen men in the House on both sides of the aisle-have not tried to unseat each other. The idea of doing so still shocks some oldtimers. When House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona, who has served 14 terms, was asked if he would campaign this year against Speaker Tip O'Neill, he replied, "There's no way I'd be against Tip. I don't agree with...
...Republican leaders, however, share Rhodes' allegiance to the old political rules. In fact, the National Republican Congressional Committee this year is cold-bloodedly working hard to unseat nearly all of the House Democratic leaders. The break with tradition was engineered by the committee's chairman, Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, who is unopposed for re-election and hopes to succeed Rhodes as G.O.P. floor leader...
Should Thomas Larkin unseat incumbent Michael McLaughlin in the race for county commissioner, he might be able to start on his promised campaign to wipe out county government--a bureaucratic sinkhole useful only as a source of patronage jobs. But electing Larkin is not enough--voters would also have to support incumbent S. Lester Ralph for the other open seat if they hope for reform, not so much because he is a progressive but because he is less regressive than McLaughlin. Currently under scrutiny for possible election law fraud, McLaughlin deserves nothing so little as another chance to play fast...