Word: unseats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea began to crystalize in his mind. A Minneapolis magazine had rated the Republican state senator from his district, a career politician named Otto Bang, one of the 10 least effective legislators in the state. Bang would seek reelection in November, and as of June no serious effort to unseat him had gotten underway. Loegering sought the official endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party that month and it was his practically for the asking. Primary day was September 14, but Loegering, on the strength of the party endorsement, was unopposed. Since June he has been organizing a campaign...
...other side, the Independents are counting on the advantages of incumbency to see them through. Even in the best of times, Cambridge's unique and inordinately complex system of Proportional Representation voting makes it extremely difficult to unseat an incumbent. The lackluster nature of the campaign so far--the result of what liberals fear is an unwarranted complacency among city voters--may make the task even more difficult this time. Mayor Walter J. Sullivan said last week that there are no real issues in this campaign--"it's strictly personal." As a result, he said, the candidates whose names...
Joseph F. Tichanuk, former president of the city water workers' union, said he's spent "more time at council meetings than most councilors." An advocate of rent control and increased development to create more jobs, Tichanuk compares his battle to unseat the incumbents to "fighting a windmill...
Hartman's attitude is the most realistic. His case is without precedent--never before has Harvard studies a non-rehiring case, just as never before the Isaacs-Vigier challenge of Kilbridge had anyone asked the Corporation to unseat a dean. Like a landmark legal case, the Hartman controversy appears destined for appeal to the higher courts...
...gave Chicago schools $48 million more this year than in 1974. Said he: "I can only conclude that in the face of the state aid increase and declining enrollment, the superintendent is crying wolf." The Governor complicated matters further by appointing William Singer, a former alderman who tried to unseat Mayor Richard Daley in last winter's Democratic primary, to head a task force investigating the school board's budget. That infuriated Daley, who has stepped in as the middleman and successfully mediated previous teachers' strikes; he has decided to remain on the sidelines at least temporarily...