Word: whitmans
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...Republican campaign consultant has been known as a compulsive truth teller with a penchant for speaking his mind even when it reflected badly on the candidate he was managing. Last week Rollins set a new standard for provocative candor by boasting that his latest electoral triumph -- Christine Todd Whitman's razor-thin victory over New Jersey Governor Jim Florio -- was largely the result of a political dirty trick...
...breakfast meeting with Washington journalists, Rollins claimed that "street smart" New Jersey Republicans had doled out $500,000 in "walking-around money" to black ministers and Democratic Party activists on Whitman's behalf. But in this case the payments were actually sitting- around money, designed to counter Florio's heavy support among black voters by discouraging them from turning out on Election Day. As Rollins told the journalists, "We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That...
...landslide by Dennis Archer. Further underlining their anti- incumbent mood, voters in Maine, New York City and nearby Suffolk County enacted term limits for officeholders, including Mayor-elect Giuliani, while New Jerseyites passed a referendum that will give them the authority to remove any elected official, including Governor-elect Whitman, even before his or her term...
...protest, voters made permanent a half-cent increase in the sales tax for hiring more fire fighters and police. Even in New Jersey, anger at the $2.8 billion increase Florio pushed through in 1990 would not by itself have been enough to beat him, in the view of Whitman's campaign manager, Ed Rollins. His attack against Florio focused on the idea that the state's economy is still sluggish and schools are still poor, "so you got taxed a lot more, and you didn't get anything for it." The upshot, in the view of many analysts: voters will...
...last week is any harbinger, 1994 will be good to Republicans. In the New Jersey gubernatorial race, Christine Todd Whitman ousted Democrat James Florio, while New York City Mayor David Dinkins lost to Liberal-Republican Rudolph Giuliani. A Republican also won the Virginia statehouse, with George Allen scoring a victory over Mary Sue Terry. Top Democrats including President Clinton tried to downplay the significance of the results, attributing them to the vagaries of local politics...