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...huge monied interests." He adds, "The consumer groups have worked hard on this, but they are soft voices compared to the screaming of the people for hire." The consumers, in the end, have an important opportunity for revenge. If they are angry when ballot time comes, they can always elect to disconnect...
...school board and tied up meetings with debates over banning Maya Angelou's memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which some members described as pornographic. A dismayed Bryant convened a group of parents around his kitchen table and launched Advocates for Public Schools. In the past two elections, the group has helped elect a new back-to-basics majority that has pushed for granting individual schools greater autonomy...
James, who declined to be interviewed, has said the proceeds were used for charitable activities such as distributing Christmas baskets and turkeys in poor neighborhoods. But bank records obtained by the state election commission show that since 1988, checks drawn on the account of the Sharpe James Civic Association were used to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Committee to Re-elect Sharpe James...
Fearful that such a distinction would be lost in the blame game following Clinton's forced retirement, those who helped elect him are preparing to distance themselves while they still have the chance. "We're out to push the intellectual envelope," says the ppi's Rob Shapiro, who is working on a "radical" series of issue alternatives that could "unyoke" the centrists from their President. A full-fledged manifesto is due this fall, and if, as currently planned, it includes ideas like privatizing Social Security, it's unlikely that Clinton will have the nerve to sign on. At that point...
BlacKs today have a dilemma: Should they try to fight for majority-Black districts to elect significant numbers of Blacks to Congress in order to fight for their political goals, knowing that the majority-Black districts lead to an overall conservative shift...