Samuel W. Howell, the county attorney, said he believed that lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division filed the suit in the last days of the Clinton administration because they feared that George W. Bush and his choice for attorney general, John Ashcroft, would be far less aggressive in pursuing voting rights cases.
Well-regarded by civil rights and labor leaders, Perez, the son of political exiles from the Dominican Republic, has put together a lengthy track record aggressively pursuing voting rights and discrimination cases.
If parties want to concentrate on these, however, they should indeed pursue votes in the small, marginal towns that make up the communitarian base.
Under Cameron, the Conservatives, who had lost two prime ministers to the question of Europe, were able to abandon the most nativist elements of their base in order to pursue votes in the centre, rebranding themselves as the sensible party of British modernity.
Senator John McCain was honest enough to acknowledge that his support of the confederate flag, a symbol of white supremacy, was a crass political calculation to pursue votes and stoke the racial anxiety of whites.
She was just elected to the board of DC Vote, which pursues voting rights for the residents of the District of Columbia.
In 1903 the women's suffrage movement split dramatically over the issue of the parliamentary vote, some pursuing the vote as merely one item on a long list of political and extra-political reforms and others concentrating on the single aim of obtaining the vote.
Ms Kumpf says the Green Party is informally nudging supporters to give their first votes to her; the ex-communist Left Party is mainly pursuing second votes.
Devotees of the party's platform, which is silent on social issues, have been offended by Mr. Buchanan's outspokenness on abortion and homosexuality, as well as his tactics in pursuing delegate votes at the national convention.
"Victorians will once again be collateral damage as Malcolm Turnbull short changes our state, and cravenly pursues votes at the WA election," Pallas said.
