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Council leaders staged a full debate on whether to unseat Epps to show new members how the body's parliamentary procedures work...
Ironically, Nethercutt's strategy is precisely the same one that took Foley from the rainy state of Washington to the humid city of Washington in the first place. In 1964 Foley was a politically inexperienced Spokane lawyer with boundless energy and a shy smile, who set out to unseat a 22-year Republican House veteran. While the incumbent trumpeted his track record, battle scars and hard-earned seniority, Foley exploited a prevailing mood of anti- incumbency in the electorate. The upstart triumphed...
Feinstein was prescient enough to make illegal immigration a pet issue, which gives her some political cover in her unexpectedly tight race against conservative Santa Barbara Congressman Michael Huffington. But the same cannot be said of Democrat Kathleen Brown, who in a struggle to unseat Governor Pete Wilson finds herself slipping over what has become the most hazardous issue of the 1994 elections. If California runs true to form, leading America's social revolutions through the ballot box, it will pass Proposition 187, an implacable, baldly unconstitutional plan to cut off services to illegal immigrants, from schools to health care...
...unthinkable is now being thought. Political observers believe that Republican entrepreneur W. Mitt Romney could unseat 32-year Senator and Democratic icon Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 in the November election...
...ferocity of the past attacks against him have ensured that he will not be forgotten. Now, what he must do is shift the name recognition from a negative to a positive. Ironically, Quayle's biggest side in restoring his image might be the man he is trying to unseat, Bill Clinton...