Word: question
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Although an attempt was made last year to reenact rent control, the petition to return the question to the ballot was thrown out on technicalities...
...while the end of the rent control question--what Koocher calls a "sexy" political issue--might have lowered political involvement, the story of Cambridge's declining activism is more complex...
There were three questions that were most representative of the candidates' respective performances. The first came from a farmer asking what each candidate's administration would do to preserve the family farmers' way of life. Gore answered the question directly, specifically and sympathetically. He cited the failures of the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act and talked about better husbandry of the land. He called farmers the "first environmentalists" and suggested expanding the conservation reserve program so that farmers could manage their land themselves but be rewarded for keeping it healthy, for instance by leaving weakened fields fallow to prevent soil...
...second case, a woman asked how each candidate's tax plan would affect her, a middle-income single woman with no dependents. This question should have been a softball for Bush, since Gore's plan places much more emphasis on tax credits for families and children than single individuals. Yet Gore was able to enumerate the specific tax credits she would receive depending on her income level; Bush instead discussed how education would decrease crime, how she could live in a world that was safer and how his administration would provide a foreign policy vision--rambling on about every aspect...
...Gore people have their first Reality Check, a follow-up paper titled "Bush on the Patients' Bill of Rights," to us before he's finished speaking on the first question. The Gore team is ubiquitous, all these people in red hats passing out papers every few minutes. The Bushies are slower, but more thorough, issuing multi-page rebuttals...