Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Douglas Wilder, the popular Virginia governor who has obviously been suggesting himself as a presidential candidate in 1992 despite public denials, typifies this new type of Democrat. Wilder, who spoke two weeks ago at the Kennedy School of Government as part of a recent spate of stumping, has given a name to the new Democratic agenda--the "New Mainstream...
...Kennedy School last Friday, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder (who is Black) delivered a remarkable address about the need for fiscal responsibility. The specific topic of Wilder's address is less important than the underlying challenge he poses to Farrakhan and Jackson. Perhaps he will one day restore to Black leadership a sense of realism and purposefulness...
Here's a radical notion: putting the Democrats on record as the party committed to "no new taxes." The scheme is the latest ploy from Virginia Democratic leader Paul Goldman, political aide to Douglas Wilder, the nation's only black Governor. Goldman will present a read-my-lips resolution to this week's meeting of the Democratic National Committee, where its chances are akin to Michael Dukakis' making a comeback. But Goldman's gambit highlights the distinction between his man Wilder (who has slashed spending rather than raise taxes in Virginia) and both the Democratic congressional budget negotiators and Mario...
...similar etiquette goes into effect when a WMC runs against a black. This year Doug Wilder wannabes joined the races for Governor of Georgia (Andrew Young lost the Democratic primary) and South Carolina, and in North Carolina former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt is trying to deny Jesse Helms a third term in the U.S. Senate. For WMCs in such contests, references to black marks on their opponents' records are clearly out of bounds, as are allusions to crime and welfare dependency, which might have racist overtones. Blacks are freer to flirt with racial rhetoric. In the primary battle between black...
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young wanted to accomplish in Georgia what L. Douglas Wilder had in Virginia last year: become his state's first black Governor. But Young's dream went a-glimmering last week as lieutenant governor Zell Miller drubbed him in a runoff for the Democratic nomination, winning 62% of the vote...