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Sometimes it helps to get outraged: David Bonior is passionate about issues. That's one of the reasons he visited Iraq. Now he's on the receiving end of a lot of anger. (Cover Story).
National Catholic Reporter
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October 25, 2002|
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Representative David Bonior is different. In this era of blow-dried politicians--where each focus-group-tested phrase is precision-tuned to achieve maximum palatability with the broadest possible audience--the 13-term Michigan Democrat evokes strong, almost visceral, reactions.
He's a divider, not a uniter.
The latest case in point: How better to infuriate vast numbers of Americans than to tour Baghdad on the eve of a U.S. war with Iraq? That's precisely what Bonior and colleagues Jim McDermott, D-Wash., and Mike Thompson, D-Calif., did earlier this month on ...
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The biter bit?(David Bonior's movies to unseat Newt Gingrich)
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; ...the House of Representatives and David Bonior was denied the Majority Leader post he had expected to inherit. Bonior was not about to stand for this. Immediately...the House's former top lawyer. . . . [Bonior's] office has become a clearinghouse...
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; JIM WRIGHT, DEFENDANT LAST WEEKEND, defending himself...boss's book on public time, Congressman Jim Wright waged an artful defense, which no doubt...is not very different from the reason Jim Wright gave. Any congressman who hopes to stay...
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The ethician's ethics.(Rep. David Bonior's pursuit of ethics charges against Newt Gingrich)
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; ...his campaign to unseat Gingrich from Congress] and Bonior met to plan the next step in their offensive [against Gingrich]. David [Bonior] and I used to play a lot of basketball together...said, 'Go for it. ' And they did. On November 28, Bonior wrote a letter to the ethics committee passing on...have ...
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What the Wright hand's doing. (House Speaker Jim Wright)
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; WITH A FATALLY WOUNDED Jim Wright now bleeding all over the Democratic Party...larger than Republican revenge, larger than Jim Wright himself. To begin with, the differences between Jim Wright and the victims in the Reagan and Bush Administrations...
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Jim Wright, statesman. (House Speaker's trip to Moscow)
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; Jim Wright, Statesman PUT A CONGRESSMAN in front...Russians supposed to think? House Speaker Jim Wright went on Soviet primetime while he was...emigration for 15 years, it registers on Jim Wright's consciousness. Assign 15 years to Soviet...
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The Ambition and the Power: Jim Wright and the Will of the House.
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; The Ambition and the Power: Jim Wright and the Will of the House Hubris in a...intentionally, has given us a case study in both. Jim Wright's hubris knew no bounds. The mere fact...he puts down Republican-led revolts. Jim Wright exploded on the house. Nothing could...
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Wright should quit. (House speaker Jim Wright) (column)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...to ask with exasperation Why doesn't Jim Wright quit? On top of everything else, be's...ago, early in Reagan's Presidency, and Jim Wright appeared on the Today show. I hadn't...from the Democratic majority leader. Jim Wright turned and smiled at Gumbel as though...
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Exit stage Wright. (Jim Wright and Tony Coelho resign from House of Representatives)
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; ...two have already fallen: House Speaker Jim Wright, who became the first man in that office...failure to accept the facts is the way Jim Wright's woes have been dumped at the feet of...this was not the message we heard ftom Jim Wright & Co. when the Reagan Administration...
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Quis custodiet? (investigation of House Speaker Jim Wright)
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; ...come to expect But they're investigating Jim Wright anyway-for the peccadillos that cost...to help us find out. Although Speaker Jim Wright is largely responsible for the extent...DCCC Chairman Tony Coelho, and of course Jim Wright, who was Majority Leader at the time...
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Jim Wright's long, hot summer. (editorial)
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; Jim Wright's Long, Hot Summer `IT COULD probably be shown by facts and figures that...around Washington. The watchdogs have finally taken note of the affairs of Jim Wright, who has used his office as Speaker of the House to help friends in need...
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