Word: welds
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...record to parade before voters looking for reasons to re-elect him. "It's hard to say what John Kerry really cares about, other than the Vietnam stuff," says a Capitol Hill Democrat. That opened him to a fierce challenge in 1996 from the popular Republican William Weld, who had been elected Governor with 71% of the vote in a historically Democratic state. Weld's attacks on Kerry provide the playbook for the G.O.P. opposition-research elves, who even now are busy rummaging through every speech for arrows to sling...
...Weld's fate in that race also provides an object lesson for other opponents. The debates were that rare thing--two smart guys, quick on their feet, actually talking about the issues without so much as a moderator. Weld seemed to think he could win on charm; Kerry proved to be extremely deft about how he took his affable opponent down because anything too personal, too nasty could easily backfire. At one point Weld challenged Kerry for coddling criminals by producing the mother of a slain Springfield cop and asking him to "tell her why the life...
...sweetening of his record by the Kennedy shop. Kennedy's staff worked closely with Kerry to write a bill extending children's health coverage, paid for by a cigarette tax. That not only gave Kerry a consumer-friendly piece of legislation to run on but also reminded voters that Weld had blocked such a plan in Massachusetts. Kerry ended up winning by more than 7 percentage points...
Puns abounded as two first-years from Weld discussed the event...
...weld at the Harvard Physics Machine Shop in the basement of Lyman. (“If I Had a Blow Torch, I’d Blow Torch in the Morning,” April...