Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush was confident he could navigate the tax-cut terrain. After his first successful legislative session as Texas governor, when he and the Democrats in the legislature had cut deals on welfare and juvenile-justice reform, Bush proposed a total overhaul of the unfair property-tax system. His plan was widely viewed as a make-or-break gambit. "He absolutely cannot politically afford for it to fail," wrote the Houston Chronicle at the time, if he had any hopes of higher office. His plan would have slashed property taxes as much as 40 percent, but made up the lost revenue...
...Oversight subcommittee of Commerce, he got subpoena power and the chance to expose everything from tainted baby formula to toxic-waste dumps to influence peddling in the contact-lens-solution business. He was a tireless, exhaustively prepared prosecutor, but he was not ideologically predictable. He supported serious campaign-finance reform before McCain made it cool - and before his own travails at the Buddhist temple demanded some public penance...
...Nader victory now will not necessarily help the Green Party in four years. If this is all about the 5 percent, the experience of the Reform Party should also provide a poignant example. This year, Pat Buchanan had the opportunity to blow $26 million dollars that equally fervent Ross Perot supporters won for the Reform Party in 1996 by garnering 7 percent of the vote. Reporting at the Reform Party convention(s) in Long Beach, found old-time Reformers flabbergasted by the way Buchanan could bring his hard-line Republican supporters into their party in search of money. Some...
Recently, Bush has tried to wrap himself in the rhetoric of reform, while refusing to change his opposition to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Last spring he was a "reformer with results," and he is currently on his "barnstorm tour for reform." In using these phrases, Bush is trying to reach out to reform-minded voters who supported McCain. But when Bush says "reform" he is talking about something very different from the reform sponsored by McCain and Sen. Russell Feingold (R- Wisc...
Bush is against reforming the system of special interest money that benefits his big contributors. Instead, he wants to "reform" Social Security (i.e. raise the retirement age) and Medicare (i.e. force seniors into HMOs). Reform-minded voters beware. For all his talk of reform, Bush would leave the current system of huge soft-money contributions intact, and the threat to our democracy would continue to grow. Gore is a leader, and he will work with McCain, Feingold and other reformers to clean up the political system and give our democracy back to the people...