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- <title>
- Nov. 21, 1994: Cover:Election:Victory by the Numbers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Nov. 21, 1994 G.O.P. Stampede
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- COVER/THE ELECTION, Page 64
- Victory by the Numbers
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>INITIATIVES
- </p>
- <p> ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: California voters passed Proposition 187,
- 59% to 41%, which would bar illegal immigrants from receiving
- many state benefits. It would also require teachers, doctors
- and police to report illegal aliens to immigration officials.
- </p>
- <p> ASSISTED SUICIDE: Oregon adoted the only measure in the U.S.
- to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to
- terminally ill patients.
- </p>
- <p> TERM LIMITS: Voters adopted them for congressional posts and
- other offices in Alaska, Colorado, District of Columbia, Idaho,
- Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Nevada.
- </p>
- <p> GAMBLING: Casino proposals were rejected in Colorado, Florida,
- Massachusetts, Wyoming and the Navajo reservation. Missouri
- approved slot machines on riverboats, and New Mexico okayed
- video gambling and a lottery.
- </p>
- <p> CRIME: Georgia approved a two-strike rule that mandates tougher
- penalties for violent felons. California adopted sentences of
- 25 years to life for three-time felons. Oregon stiffened mandatory
- sentences for violent crimes. Ohio eliminated the appeals-court
- phase in death sentences.
- </p>
- <p> TAXES: Oregon, Missouri and Montana rejected a requirement to
- put all new tax proposals to public vote. Nevada approved a
- two-thirds legislative approval for tax increases. Massachusetts
- rejected a graduated income tax in favor of the current flat
- rate. Arizona passed a cigarette-tax increase. Colorado rejected
- one. Oklahoma rejected a 1-cent entertainment tax that would
- have paid for breast-cancer research.
- </p>
- <p> GAY RIGHTS: Oregon and Idaho defeated proposals that would have
- limited gay-rights protection.
- </p>
- <p>THE 10 BIGGEST SPENDERS
- </p>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><c><c>Amount<c>Winner
- <row><c type=a>SENATE<c type=n><c type=a>
- <row><c>R - Michael Huffington, CA <c type=n>$25,205,627 <c>
- <row><c>R - Oliver North, VA <c>16,750,959 <c>
- <row><c>D - Dianne Feinstein, CA <c>10,868,062 <c>X
- <row><c>D - Edward Kennedy, MA <c>7,782,333 <c>X
- <row><c>D - Frank Lautenberg, NJ <c>5,534,636 <c>X
- <row><c>R - W. Mitt Romney, MA <c>5,448,623 <c>
- <row><c>R - Kay B. Hutchinson, TX <c>5,256,624 <c>X
- <row><c>D - Harris Wofford, PA <c>5,228,428 <c>
- <row><c>D - Herb Kohl, WI <c>5,152,501 <c>X
- <row><c>R - Mike DeWine, OH <c>5,004,269 <c>X
- <row><c>HOUSE<c><c>
- <row><c>R - Gene Fontenot, TX <c>2,661,157 <c>
- <row><c>D - Dan Rostenkowski, IL <c>2,247,746 <c>
- <row><c>D - Bob Schuster, WY <c>1,966,131 <c>
- <row><c>D - Richard Gephardy, MO <c>1,931,391 <c>X
- <row><c>R - Robert Dornan, CA <c>1,832,126 <c>X
- <row><c>R - Enid Waldholtz, UT <c>1,464,669 <c>X
- <row><c>R - Newt Gingrich, GA <c>1,426,232 <c>X
- <row><c>D - Thomas Foley, WA <c>1,400,626 <c>
- <row><c>D - Martin Frost, TX <c>1,377,707 <c>X
- <row><c>D - Margolies-Mezvinsky, PA <c>1,376,357 <c>
- </table>
- <p>Financial activity Jan.1, 1993 through Oct. 19, 1994, includes
- loan payments.
- </p>
- <p>Source: Federal Election Commission.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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