Word: democratic
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...Democrat in his third term as City Councillor, the Vice Mayor wants to increase affordable housing through increased home ownership programs, better connect the local economy to Cambridge's employment base and work for children via after-school programs and public education...
...Gore was an environmentalist who knew everything about the MX missile; Bradley favored funding the Nicaraguan contras, but was against the Gulf War. These days, whether they are talking health care, education, crime or poverty, the instruments they use, for the most part, all come out of the New Democrat toolbox. Bradley has gone further left on gays, proposing that they should have all the legal and economic rights of marriage short of the title itself, and he's gone further on gun control, where he favors registering all handguns. But on most issues, he is mainly promising to spend...
Rather than try and loosen Gore's lock on the party's traditional center, Bradley has defined the Democratic primary season as a battle to win the party?s left flank. The former senator from New Jersey's voting record and policy positions position him well to take advantage of liberals' disappointment with the Clinton administration. And he's pressed home his appeal to the left with big, liberal-friendly policy initiatives in an era of incremental shuffling. He wants to spend $65 billion on health care for all, $10 billion on combating child poverty, and extend full civil rights...
...After Democrat Hubert "Skip" Humphrey lost the Minnesota Governor's race to Jesse "The Body" Ventura, his next stop was Harvard, where he joined the Institute of Politics (IOP) as a Fellow last spring...
...proposals for dealing with the problem, Gore didn't mention them. Apart from a promise to negotiate labor and environmental agreements as part of future trade pacts, not as side deals, he offered platitudes about protecting the right to organize and boosting the minimum wage--no-brainers for any Democrat. In fact, nothing Gore said in L.A. about how he'd "stay and fight for working people" would have raised an eyebrow the next day in Washington, when he told the free-trade-loving members of the Democratic Leadership Council that he would stay and fight for centrism. Gore...