Word: governorship
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When he served as Missouri's attorney general in the 1980s, Ashcroft persuaded the Reagan Administration to oppose school-desegregation plans in St. Louis, then used the issue to win the governorship in 1984. Since his election to the Senate in 1994, Ashcroft has consistently appealed to the right wing of his party, even when his approach risked appearing racist. He fought unsuccessfully against the confirmation of David Satcher, a distinguished black physician, as surgeon general, because Satcher opposes a ban on late-term abortions. In 1998 Ashcroft told the neo-segregationist magazine Southern Partisan that Confederate war heroes were...
...Bush decided to try his hand at politics once again, challenging the Democratic incumbent Ann Richards for the Texas governorship...
...years into the Clinton administration, Bush, never considered to have true political potential, ran for the Texas governorship as an underdog--and won. And with a Republican Party searching desperately for a candidate to successfully rally around in the 2000 presidential race, Bush again surprised his doubters...
Bush is also expected to turn over the Texas governorship to Lt. Gov. Rick Perry in the next...
...full control of the legislative agenda, and nothing becomes law without his approval. With a 100% rating from the Florida Conservative Union and regular accolades from the Christian Coalition, Feeney is a true-blooded conservative. In fact, it was his hard-line views that helped cost Jeb Bush the governorship when the two shared the ticket in 1994. (Bush moderated his views and won four years later.) This year Feeney ran for speaker on a platform of cooperation, promising to end the bitter partisan wrangling that has recently bottled up legislation...