Word: ashcroft
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...most politically-important states: Florida (Housing designate Mel Martinez) and California (Veneman). He has also stretched his arms to embrace the two flanks of his party, represented on the GOP's left by Christine Whitman (who is heading for the the EPA) and on the right by John Ashcroft, who Bush named last week to be his attorney general. Bush had been thinking about Ashcroft for nearly a month, but a senior Bush official told TIME.com on Saturday that the more moderate the Cabinet became last week, the more sense it made to mollify conservatives in one fell swoop. Democrats...
Missouri Senator John Ashcroft loses to Mel Carnahan, who is dead...
...Enter Friday's other picks. Bush announced in the morning that John Ashcroft, the Missouri senator who lost in November at the hands of Mel Carnahan's ghost, will be attorney general. Ashcroft is a staunch and pious down-the-line social conservative whom Democrats really seem to despise - he beats out Montana governor Marc Racicot, whom the right didn't like, and Oklahoma governor Frank Keating, a former FBI man whom they loved but is back among the also-rans for some reason...
...rest of the country, they get the diversity thing. Something for everybody - women, blacks, Hispanics and moderates to go with the old white gentleman conservatives (Ashcroft may be the first to break that mold, but AG isn't worth a fight for the left). Colin Powell alone is thought to be able to please 14 different interest groups without saying a word...
...most emotional victory in the battle for the Senate came when Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, who was killed in a plane crash on Oct. 16, beat out Republican incumbent John Ashcroft. It was too late to remove his name from the ballot, and Carnahan's Democratic successor as Governor said he would appoint Carnahan's wife Jean, 66, to the Senate seat if her late husband won. "My husband's journey was cut short," she said last week. "And for reasons we don't understand, the mantle has now fallen upon us." Some Republicans grumbled about her right to assume...