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...superconservative" on fiscal issues, though he vows to fight cuts in Social Security and Medicare. And he offers a more liberal perspective on social issues than Charles: Mike is pro-choice and says the people of the district are willing to spend more on the environment, citing a 1994 referendum in which the people of Polk County voted to raise property taxes to buy $20 million worth of "environmentally sensitive" land...
Fricano began work at age 19 at a Chevrolet plant. Now on the UAW's International Union Executive Board, he hopes to make this race a referendum on the Contract with America, which he calls the Contract on America. Facing Bill Paxon, one of Newt Gingrich's lieutenants, Fricano has made hay of Paxon's vote against the minimum-wage hike. In this battle between labor and the G.O.P. Congress, Fricano has strong support despite the district's solid Republicanism...
...against Andrea Seastrand: campaigning helps. The University of California at Santa Barbara religious-studies chairman continued to teach during that race and lost by just 1,563 votes. This year he was sent to the hospital by a drunk driver. But the unflappable Capps is making the election a referendum on Newt Gingrich and sees his own political naivete as a plus...
This year Massachusetts voters have the chance to remove these membership requirements for the Fisheries and Wildlife Board and to ban two cruel methods of hunting and trapping animals. Question One, the only referendum question on this year's ballot, would change current law in three ways: It would abolish the requirement that five of the seven board seats go to hunters, ban steel jaw and padded leghold traps, and prohibit the use of dogs in hunting bears or bobcats, with some exceptions...
...Christian Coalition] believe that this election is a referendum on the moral fiber of our country and on the integrity of our leaders," he said...