Word: zelle
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...people told her they loved the idea. Wilkinson went on to win, closing his campaign with a commercial that showed a crowd chanting, "Taxes, no! Lottery, yes!" Carville went on to Georgia, where in 1990 he made a lottery the centerpiece of another campaign for Governor, this one by Zell Miller...
Eight years later, James Carville is James Carville, Zell Miller is retiring as Georgia Governor with an 80% approval rating, and the lottery is being hailed as the secret to the Democratic Party's astonishing rebirth in the South. Last week in Alabama and South Carolina, two states that had been trending hard toward the G.O.P., Democrats ousted sitting Republican Governors by single-mindedly pledging to follow Georgia into the scratch-and-win business. Political consultants predict the issue will dominate next year's legislative session in Tennessee and the Governor's race in North Carolina in the year...
Back in 1992, when Georgia Governor Zell Miller first floated the idea of publicly funding pre-K, his plan was roundly derided as state-sponsored baby sitting. Yet today Georgia's $217 million program serves 61,000 kids, and is so popular with parents that some camp out all night to be first to register. Miller now advocates mandatory enrollment. "If I had a choice of pre-K or 12th grade being mandatory," he says, "I'd take pre-K in a second...
...famous for her reserve, had to apologize to her adopted state last week after comparing Georgia to a Third World country. Addressing a U.N. function, she said that in northern Georgia, "children are starving to death. People live in tar-paper shacks with no indoor plumbing." This incensed Governor Zell Miller, who's from those parts. "Maybe the view from your penthouse apartment is not as clear as it needs to be," he groused. Fonda apologized instantly, saying her remarks were "inaccurate and ill-advised." Peachy...
DIED. FERDINAND PORSCHE, 88, who helped his father engineer the Volkswagen Beetle (at Hitler's behest) and later created the wildly popular and profitable German sports car that bears his name; in Zell am See, Austria...