Word: voter
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...without ever seeing members of their family go to work. Also, because half of all children on welfare were born out of wedlock, compared with just 10% for American children generally, critics accuse the system of creating financial incentives for single motherhood. Add to those sentiments an enduring voter discontent over taxes and pressure on the President to keep up his image as "new Democrat." All have combined to make welfare reform a White House priority. "It has gone from a subject for think tanks to a grass-roots issue," says one top Administration official. "It has a big head...
...have been harder to sell Clinton to Inman, a Bush voter who didn't much feel like returning to Washington. "The President had to talk him into it," says a senior White House official. "It wasn't about defense or budgets. They just needed to get to know each other." The admiral was taken aback when the White House contacted him about the job two weeks ago. He agreed to take it only after he was satisfied that Clinton was personally committed to building a strong, forward-looking national-security policy with bipartisan support. Though impressed by Clinton, Inman still...
Nominations and voter registration will be closed for the second election, candidates must use the same position papers and will have slightly shorter amounts of time to speak andanswer questions, Joan Cheng said...
Washington -- Last week there were reports that Reagan civil rights official Linda Chavez had accused Ed Rollins of suggesting voter suppression when she ran for a U.S. Senate seat from Maryland in 1986. But Chavez told Time that she was actually referring to a secret proposal from Maryland's former Democratic Governor Marvin Mandel to use G.O.P. funds to support Chavez instead of Democratic candidate Barbara Mikulski. "I felt I was being hustled," says Chavez, who turned down the "bizarre" offer. Mandel says he has "absolutely no recollection" of the incident...
...recommended several projects to integrate the organization with the community. "When having a panel of speakers on Asian Americans in politics, [we should] sponsor a voter registration drive in places like Chinatown and Lowell, (Mass.)," reads their platform...