Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...detail the obstacles a neophyte candidate faces in establishing himself, Massachusetts State Senator Robert Hall (R-Fitchburg) recently regaled the group with his tales of the vagaries of local politics and the steps necessary to prepare for an initial run for office. Hall told the students there is "no dividing line between getting prepared to run and running a campaign," directing them to waste no time in "building credibility" in their local community. "About the only thing you'll get out of college for succeeding in politics is that you'll be able to put in the paper, 'Went...
Although nearly everyone in the nation's capital agrees that Congressional representation for the District and local self-government are long overdue, they disagree whether statehood will best achieve those ends. One group of officials, including the District's mayor and several city councilmen, support the initiative. Another group, however, advocates continued support for the 1978 D.C. Voting Rights Amendment, which would only give the District congressional representation...
...seems incongruous that a group whose members' wages are paid by taxes would sponsor a tax-cutting measure. In fact, it sounds downright fishy. But that's what Question 3 on tomorrow's ballot--sponsored by the Massachusetts Teachers Association--would technically do: limit state and local tax increases to the rate of annual per capita growth in income. It would also shift the state's share of the tab for local education from 30 to 50 per cent...
...some Democrats are angry at the groups, then supporters of independent candidate John Anderson are both angry and confused. Although both NOW and NARAL have hailed the Illinois congressman for his "enlightened" stand on abortion and his efforts on behalf of the ERA, neither group went so far as to endorse him. "It's not that we're bitter," Jonelle Davis, executive director of Women for Anderson and a former NARAL worker, insists. "It's just that we don't understand why they didn't support...
...group, which includes people like Karen Keesling, a member of Reagan's women advisory board, and Senator Nancy Kassenbaum of Kansas, say ERA-backers have misled women into thinking that the amendment would be a panacea for discrimination. More important than the ERA, they say, will be a Republican commitment to waging a statute-by-statute battle to tear down the "hundreds" of federal regulations that discriminate against women...