Word: unseat
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...part-time farmer who raises Galloway cattle and alpine goats on a 10-acre plot in Phelan, Conaway is an outspoken advocate for workers' pensions and Medicare, racking up endorsements from the Committee on Political Education, California Federation of Teachers and United Auto Workers in his improbable mission to unseat nine-term incumbent Jerry Lewis...
Wesley prides herself on her "balanced perspective" on the issues. She denounces federal regulation of small business, but supports abortion rights, environmental protection, gun control and continued high levels of federal funding for education, Medicare and Social Security. Unfortunately for Wesley, more than perspective may be required to unseat eight-term conservative Duncan Hunter in this solidly Republican district...
...second bid to unseat Frank Wolf, Weinberg says he offers voters a choice--but he refuses to answer the TIME/CQ questionnaire because it focuses on "what a candidate would have done in the past," which he considers too hypothetical. Not abstractly, the newly retired lawyer must convince voters to turn out an incumbent famous for constituent services and put in his place a precinct committeeman who has never won an elective office...
...police force. It's a record any G.O.P. mayor might be proud of, but it belongs to Clarksville's "middle-of-the-road" Democrat, Don Trotter. And though Entrepreneur magazine rated Clarksville one of America's two best cities for small business, Trotter has a fight trying to unseat popular G.O.P. incumbent Ed Bryant...
Running to unseat four-term incumbent John Tanner, Watson is a busy man. This firefighter, the fourth of 12 sons from a rural Shelby County family, thinks Tanner is "rich and a nice fellow," but not a good representative for the Eighth. He especially disagrees with Tanner's lack of support for constitutional amendments limiting congressional terms and banning desecration of the U.S. flag...