In Ohio famous Croatian George Voinovich defeated the Irish candidate Mary O'Boyle.
Mary O' Boyle the daughter of Irish immigrants a very sweet and attractive lady just couldn't make her campaign work. Also someone close to Mary is going to have to explain to her it's not how much you say it's what you say.
Sincerely, Tom L.
Brad De Long wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> >Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 8:43 PM
> >Subject: Re: Why the Left Crys even When We Win (Re: Gingrich falls
> >
> >
> >>Where is your head, dude? You're not in Germany. This is *America*
> >>The Dumbocrats say all those things, and when they're in power, they (1)
> >failed >to pass a ban on scabs while pushing overtime for the biggest
> >piece of scab
> >>legislation in history, namely NAFTA,
> >>It works the other way, too: the Republicans under Newt voted *for* a
> >>minimum wage increase. By your logic, we labor activists should be
> >>mourning Newt's, ah, decomposition.
> >
> >It is precisely because we are not in Germany that this kind of analysis
> >is simplistic and ignores the party differences. In the two cases above,
> >the answer is known as the Senate filibuster- maybe you've heard of it?
> >
> >When the Dems had the majority from 93-94, the House passed the anti-scab
> >bill. And a majority of the Senate were willing to vote for it. But a
> >Republican filibuster prevented it from every coming to a vote. If we had
> >had six more "Dumbocrats" in the Senate, permanent replacement workers
> >would now be illegal in the United States.
>
> We actually had more than 6 Republican senators ready and willing to close
> off debate on striker replacement. But we weren't able to hold the
> Democrats--it wasn't a high enough priority for Clinton, and he wasn't
> willing to horsetrade for votes...
>
> Brad DeLong