Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats he campaigned hard for, New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Governor James Florio, were turned out of office. Their defeats were the more galling because of the identity of their Republican conquerors. Former prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani had lost to Dinkins four years earlier; Christine Todd Whitman was a relative novice who had held only one minor elective office in New Jersey and proposed pie-in-the-sky tax cuts...
...Aiden C. Ward of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Cambridge criticized Whitman's alleged actions...
Local ministers interviewed yesterday expressed outrage at allegations that New Jersey's Republican Governor-Elect Christine Todd Whitman paid Black ministers to refrain from urging their congregations to vote for her opponent...
...Whitman's campaign manager Edward J. Rollins said that Whitman endorsed payments to ministers totalling $500,000, in connection with asking the ministers not to make strong efforts to get out the vote for Democratic incumbent Gov. Jim Florio...
Local ministers agreed Whitman's alleged conduct is an attempt to undermine Blacks' political power and said this type of activity has never occurred in Cambridge...