Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...emphasize tax policy in the final weeks of the campaign. After all, the tax issue should be a liability for Bush rather than an asset, representing easy fodder for the attacks of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore's charges have merit: as a whole, the Bush tax reforms would represent a step backward in the search for a fair and progressive tax policy. Unfortunately, given the current political climate, both candidates' tax plans have focused concern on middle-class and wealthy Americans rather than the poor, and neither man has presented an adequate proposal for general reform...
...Bush will call Gore the "obstacle-in-chief" to government reform, as he did in Iowa Monday. He'll talk about big-spending liberals, and the futility of going to Congress with your dukes up, and how states, towns and ordinary people can spend their money better than Washington can. And he'll be offering them their money back. Gore talks about surplus reinvestment, Bush about a surplus dividend. Gore is running as a book-devouring pugilist; Bush as a backslapping manager who'll get all the thinkers on the same page...
...Klansman David Duke in his run for Governor. Powell, a Tulane University history professor, tells this tale with wonderful narrative grace and moral force. He deftly explores ethical compromises and nuances: the Levy family's decision to pass as Aryan during the war; the struggles between the assimilated Reform Jews of New Orleans, reluctant to stir up trouble; and the tight-knit "New American" club of Holocaust survivors who insisted on aggressively bearing witness against neo-Nazis...
...Even when Bush's prediction came to pass, the famously crusty Bullock had a series of smackdowns with the governor. "He was a man of great profanity and chewed his ass out," remembers Republican State Senator David Sibley of a phone call between the two men to discuss litigation reform. By the end of that same evening, Bush was on the phone again offering a compromise. "Bullock got back on and said, 'You're the greatest ever,'" says Sibley. Though the two later clashed on taxes and other issues, Bush kept at the courtship. "He gets out of his seat...
...Cantwell has a paper fortune of roughly $13 million from her years at Real, $6 million of which has already gone to her war chest. Paradoxically, these dotcom dollars are helping her with the campaign-finance-reform crowd. "The fact that she's not taking PAC money is a plus," says veteran state pollster Stuart Elway...