He visited also Istanbul, Jerusalem, Delphi, and went to Burma and Uganda and Kenya on safari, on democratic terms with drivers, Bedouins, bazaar merchants.
While the council voting figure is not particularly high, it does suggest the electorate rates local government as a more important driver of democratic participation than the EU.
He took a turn to the left to try to shore up support among Democratic interests, signing the driver's license bill, approving legislation to expand the rights of gay domestic partners and indicating he would sign the most expansive employer-mandated health insurance plan in the nation.
Since a significant percentage of the poor, who tend to vote Democratic, don't have driver's licenses--and certainly don't have passports--this makes it more difficult for them to vote.
Bryant's opponent, Gray, was an unusual choice for Democratic voters: A truck driver who has never held elected office or worked in politics, he spent only $3,000 on his campaign, compared to Bryant's $2.7 million, and his own family did not even know he was running for governor until he unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination in August.
Talk story about an exchange between two bus drivers during the Democratic National Convention.
The New Yorker, August 25 , 1980P. 21 Talk story about an exchange between two bus drivers during the Democratic National Convention.
Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President, a Republican & a man who, like many people whose names have come up during the current Iran-Contra hearings,… Talk story about an exchange between two bus drivers during the Democratic National Convention.
Mr. Bush was cool to proposals by Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a Democratic presidential contender, to give drivers a break by temporarily suspending the 18.4-cent-a-gallon federal excise tax on gasoline.
Similarly, the results of next Saturday's Democratic primary will unfold digitally before drivers' eyes.
