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There is disagreement. Says Don Sweitzer, an Ohio labor union consultant: "Labor people have that old macho attitude. They want a woman who stays in the home and the man outside working. It's a real serious problem if you have a woman Vice President." Roxanne Conlin reports something of the same trouble with farmers when she was campaigning for Governor of Iowa in 1982. "The sort of thing one does is campaign at grain elevators," she says. "I'd walk in and say, 'Hi, I'm Roxanne Conlin and I'm running for Governor.' People would stand there, like...
...produces commercials, some of them negative, for Democrats: "You can end up with a situation where the voters say, 'If you want to fight it out, go do it alone.' " Unfortunately, this is not always the reaction. In the Iowa Governor's race, Democrat Roxanne Conlin ended a tailspin in the polls after she introduced ads charging that Republican Terry Branstad as a state legislator had voted against helping the handicapped. Says Conlin Aide Jill Wiley: "Negative is quick...
...Iowa, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Roxanne Conlin, 38, attacked the G.O.P. for seeking to monopolize "the American dream" by such elitist devices as tax shelters. Conlin was the clear favorite over her Republican opponent, Lieutenant Governor Terry Branstad, until she released a financial statement disclosing that she and her husband James, a millionaire real estate broker, had paid no state income taxes last year and only $2,995 in federal taxes, largely because of paper losses suffered on real estate investments. Republicans have gleefully denounced her hypocrisy in attacking tax shelters even as she profited from them. Says Executive Editor James...
...Miller, a Democrat, agrees: "There is no Republican now who could win the kind of victory that would sweep other people in with him." The leading Republican candidate to succeed Ray is Lieutenant Governor Terry Brans tad, 35, a well-financed conservative. His probable opponent: former U.S. Attorney Roxanne Conlin, 37, who apparently holds a commanding lead over her two opponents in next month's Democratic primary. A poll released last week by the Des Moines Register and Tribune showed that among lowans who are most likely to vote in November, Conlin leads Branstad...
During a three-day hearing, 37 listeners testified for Geller, only two for his opponents. Last week FCC Administrative Judge John H. Conlin praised Geller for his "selfless dedication and highly personalized style" and renewed his license for three years. Battle over, Geller hopes that advertising will pick up. Says he: "It's taken ten years of starving before the big national advertisers realized I was here, but they're starting to wake up." Score another one for the little...