Word: walters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidate is "a highly impressionable person without a firm grasp of public affairs." That was Walter Lippmann in 1932 talking about Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Parrott used to work for Walter Jones but broke with him in a loan dispute and now hints he knows some secrets about his opponent. Still, Parrott says he's not running for spite and won't let personal animus dictate the debate, which he says should focus on education, health care and the environment. He believes that if we could eliminate government fraud and tax breaks for the rich, there would be abundance for the poor, the young and the elderly...
...WALTER CAPPS (D) District 22 (Santa Barbara; Santa Maria; San Luis Obispo...
Incumbent Seastrand faces a spirited challenge from Walter Capps in this moderately Republican district. As a G.O.P. freshman she pushed for welfare reform, including a two-year limit on benefits and, as part of her Personal Responsibility Act, complete prohibition on welfare to minor mothers. Seastrand, a devout Christian, is ardently pro-life and anti-gay and sometimes spices her politics with fire and brimstone, once calling California's quakes, floods and fires "God's wrath...
ALREADY OUT: Representatives Mel Reynolds and Walter Tucker and Senator Bob Packwood quit because of scandal. Representative Kweisi Mfume took over the NAACP. Representative Norman Mineta took a job at Lockheed. Representative Bill Emerson died of lung cancer...