11 ordspråk av Tim Hodson
Tim Hodson
He dug himself into a hole with the special election. He's out of the hole now. He's not back on top of the mountain, but he's out of the hole.
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He's going to have to placate those guys or otherwise nothing gets done.
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I feel sorry for the organizers. How do you decide to commemorate a human tragedy that could repeat itself any time?
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If none passes, he could do a public mea culpa and promise a new approach as Bill Clinton did in Arkansas when he won back the governor's office after being defeated for re-election.
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It said to a lot of people that as an institution, the Legislature is weak, and as a political force, groups like the CTA are strong.
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It's a real problem. How do you commemorate a disaster, the basic nature of which the city tried to deny for decades, and an event that could basically happen again at any time?
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It's important to remember there were many factors contributing to the budget and energy problems over which he had no control.
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It's part of the mythology, which is: The place didn't exist before I got here. Back home, you were Norma Jean. In California, it's Marilyn Monroe.
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Schwarzenegger, like Brown and Wilson, could certainly make a comeback and be re-elected.
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The special election may be an albatross today, but it won't necessarily be one in 2006. If even one of his initiatives passes in November, the governor could declare victory.
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Union issues by and large are payroll issues, which are very visible in the state budget and in turn make it easier to demonize. But it's a very one-sided argument to attack labor as if there is no such thing as corporate contributions.
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