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  Bill Bradley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bradley was re-elected in 1984 with 64% of the vote, and he still retained popularity in New Jersey from his Knicks days and from practices such as his annual Labor Day talk-to-citizens stroll along Jersey Shore beaches.
Bradley's campaign ultimately foundered, in part because it was overshadowed by Senator John McCain's far more attention-gaining, but ultimately unsuccessful, campaign for the Republican nomination, and in part because it was not able to match Gore's organization once the multiple-primary Super Tuesdays began.
Bradley is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Bradley   (1776 words)

  
 Bill Bradley - MSN Encarta
Bradley entered politics in 1978, winning his first electoral race and becoming the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.
In July 1992 Bradley was a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
He declined to seek reelection to the Senate in 1996, declaring that politics in the United States were “broken.” In 2000 he challenged Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic nomination for president.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573614/Bill_Bradley.html   (304 words)

  
 CTJ Presidential Election Tax Policy Scorecard: Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley was first elected to the United States Senate from New Jersey in 1978, and held that office until his retirement in 1996.
Bradley had been a strong proponent of provisions in the bill that would create "urban enterprise zones," and made clear that his opposition to HR 11 was due entirely to the inclusion of other provisions: he noted that "this is a $30 billion urban aid bill that spends only $5.8 billion on urban aid.
Bradley's support of the bill was partially due to the inclusion of provisions establishing tax incentives for "empowerment zones" and "enterprise communities." In expressing his support for the bill, Bradley noted that similar legislation introduced by Bradley earlier in 1993 "laid the groundwork
www.ctj.org /html/bradley.htm   (1487 words)

  
 Bill_Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bradley had walked away from his first-round draft selection by the New York Knicks, in favor of the Rhodes, and he told friends as well as reporters that he did not expect to play pro ball when he returned.
Bradley had cruised to re-election in 1984 with 64% of the vote, and was widely expected to do the same in 1990.
Bradley's primary issue in the campaign, however, was child poverty.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_bradley.html   (3784 words)

  
 Skeleton Closet - Bill Bradley, The Dark Side
Bill Bradley has a reputation as a squeaky clean (and dull) politician, perhaps the Richard Lugar of the Left.
Bill Bradley would have you think he was among the cleanest members of Congress, but he was among the very worst in accepting free trips (junkets) from special interests.
Bradley was forced to cancel an appearance in San Francisco on December 12, 1999 because of fibrillation.
www.realchange.org /bradley.htm   (930 words)

  
 Bill Bradley
The son of a banker who was a Republican, Bradley grew up in a suburb of St. Louis showing an independent streak from youth, a proclivity for hard work and a thirst for perfection.
A devoted family man, Bradley is married to Ernestine, a professor of comparative literature at Montclair; they have a daughter, Theresa Anne, born in 1977.
Bradley is known for being concentrated, disciplined and polite.
www.astrodatabank.com /NM/BradleyBill.htm   (1062 words)

  
 Bill Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bradley's trick is a neat one, given that both he and Gore served for nearly two decades on Capitol Hill and come from the party's moderate, pro-business wing.
Bradley's accomplishment thus far has been to convince the public that his stylistic authenticity is a reflection of his character.
Bradley's talk, boilerplate aside ("I want to be president of the United States in order to use the power of that office to do good"), revealed a candidate very different from the one we see on television: engaged, funny, warm, and ever-so-slightly inspirational.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/00/01/13/BILL_BRADLEY.html   (2848 words)

  
 Williams College - Ephs for Bill Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ephs for Bill Bradley believe that Senator Bradley is the only candidate who can provide substantive reform of government, whether it be in tax reform, campaign finance reform or one of the many other issues Senator Bradley has addressed in his campaign.
Bill Bradley has distinguished himself throughout his life, as an athlete, a scholar and a statesman, making him the most qualified candidate for the Presidency.
Unlike the other candidates he faces, Bill Bradley is an uncommon politician who has bold and inventive ideas for the future of this country and he has proven that he has the will to carry those ideas through to completion.
wso.williams.edu /orgs/billbradley   (471 words)

  
 KLRU: Texas Monthly Talks > Bill Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bill Bradley says he supports the president and the troops but that the war will be a lot "tougher enterprise" than Americans were originally told.
Bill Bradley said he thinks the reasons we're at War with Iraq are more complicated than a personal vendetta for President Bush.
Bill Bradley said U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt is the person to beat in the Democratic primary for the presidency.
www.klru.org /texasmonthlytalks/archives/bill_bradley/bill_bradley.asp   (114 words)

  
 Salon News | Bill Bradley's fast break   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Bradley retired from the Senate in 1996 to lecture, teach and write a coffee-table book called "Values of the Game," he seemed to be riding off into the sunset, off to that land where former senators go to earn boffo bucks and escape reporters and constituents forever.
The fact that Bradley has chosen this as the year for his candidacy -- as opposed to '88 or '92, when the nomination was far more up for grabs -- makes perfect sense, given his quirky academic's personality and his love of the quixotic cause.
Bradley has raised $4.5 million, far more than many political observers thought he could, and the front-loaded primary system means that a critically timed misstep by Gore could be fatal.
www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/04/22/bradley   (1290 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: One-on-One: Bill Bradley -- October 22, 1999
BILL BRADLEY: I would say that the two characteristics would be common sense and the willingness to take the long-term view.
BILL BRADLEY: Well, my response to that is - I don't know, sometimes when I hear it, I actually laugh a little bit, because it's so off the mark.
BILL BRADLEY: I wouldn't have taken the first step toward becoming President of the United States if I didn't think I could become President of the United States -- could get the nomination and could win and could serve in a way the American people would be proud of.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec99/bradley_10-22.html   (2501 words)

  
 Salon News | How to gore Al?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bradley raised his arms in confusion, and Gore, who simply hadn't seen him, rushed back down the hall to give both Bradley and his wife, Ernestine, a hug and kiss.
And when Bradley takes the stage -- a somewhat stooped 6-foot-5, with "the body of an 80-year-old man," as his fellow Knicks said 25 years ago -- he's careful not to attack her husband as he delivers what are on the surface unobjectionable remarks about who he is and what he stands for.
Bradley raised $12.9 million from 1985 until 1990, for his Senate reelection as well as for a possible presidential campaign war chest.
www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/04/23/bradleytwo   (937 words)

  
 Bill Bradley for President
At 11pm ET this morning, Senator Bill Bradley withdrew from the Presidential race and pledged to support Al Gore in the general election.
Moreover, Bradley's strong showing with independent-leaning voters reinforces the fact that Al Gore has no traction outside the Democratic base and is a sure loser in the general election.
Bill Bradley picked up some endorsements from unlikely sources this morning: the renowned conservative Manchester Union-Leader and the equal-opportunity maligner Maureen Dowd.
www.kevincmurphy.com /billbradley0.html   (1729 words)

  
 Bill Bradley: Less Than Meets the Eye
Bradley's signals to Wall Street that he's their man are, even in these lax times, shameless well beyond the point of indelicacy.
Bradley is now retreating from his one shining moment in the senate, a passionate speech against George Bush's war on Iraq.
Bradley often sounds as though he is reading from the same economic script that the Clintons were spouting at Renaissance weekends back in the early l990s.
www.counterpunch.org /bradley.html   (2196 words)

  
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Bill Bradley was richer yesterday for what he is not: a charismatic orator, a brash street brawler, a master strategist who could whet a national yearning and wring from it personal glory.
After eight bitter debates, Al Gore and Bill Bradley turned their ninth encounter into a lovefest that seemed to signal that the Democratic presidential nomination contest is headed for a peaceful end.
A stubborn Bill Bradley invoked the words of Mark Twain on Wednesday as he shrugged off his latest defeat and said he would push ahead with his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/6228/pres2000/bradley.html   (1070 words)

  
 CNN - Chat with Bill Bradley - Allpolitics
Bill Bradley: My plan for gun control is to have mandatory registration and licensing for all 65 million handguns in America.
Bill Bradley: The first point would be issue differences, such as registration of handguns and campaign finance reform.
Bill Bradley: Since January, thousands of people have told me that they are Independent or even Republican and that they would support me, but not the vice president.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/09/09/president.2000/bradley.chat   (1556 words)

  
 Bill Bradley Turns Left
Tuesday, June 29, 1999 -- SAN FRANCISCO -- In his 18 years in the U.S. Senate, Bill Bradley was known as a centrist in his political philosophy, and for being challenged on a charisma level on the campaign stump.
Bradley also spoke passionately about gun control legislation, denouncing the House of Representatives for their failure to produce a bill on gun control, saying it was "insulting" to the American people: "What strikes me is how modest everybody has been on this issue...
Bradley also criticized Bush for his failure to support a Hate Crimes Law in Texas, saying outright that Bush turned it down because he didn't like sexual orientation being part of the bill.
www.americanpolitics.com /062999Perry.html   (795 words)

  
 Salon Politics2000 | Bill Bradley plays offense, reluctantly
Bill Bradley came out swinging Sunday, slamming Vice President Al Gore on his role in the Clinton administration's 1996 campaign fund-raising scandals.
Bradley's new offensive Sunday shows that the hard-liners in his campaign have won his ear, getting him to finally shelve his noticeable reluctance to hammer Gore on the campaign fund-raising scandals that mired the administration in 1996.
While Bradley's spokesman Eric Hauser said "we're not about to open the window," on the internal debate, Bradley sources confirmed that Kerrey has been one of the chief advocates for Bradley to come after Gore as aggressively as possible.
archive.salon.com /politics2000/feature/2000/01/30/bradley   (846 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Bill Bradley on the Trail -- September 9, 1999
BILL BRADLEY, Democratic Presidential Candidate: Crystal City had one stoplight then, but it had a rich array of ethnic families.
Bradley is now...this event yesterday and what he's going to try to do further is to expand on reasons why you need to vote for him in addition to just voting against Clinton.
Bradley is trying to revive the liberal reform wing and to use that to add on to the base of support in the party that he now has.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec99/bradley_9-9.html   (1714 words)

  
 TRIBUTE TO BILL BRADLEY (2005 Press Statement)
Halliburton and its subsidiary KBR are deeply saddened to confirm the remains of William (Bill) Bradley, 50, of Galveston, TX, have been found near Baghdad earlier this week.
Bill, a truck driver, has been missing since April 9, 2004, when his fuel convoy was ambushed by insurgents near Baghdad.
Bill was performing an historic and noble job and his work as a truck driver was an integral part of the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
www.halliburton.com /news/archive/2005/kbrnws_010605.jsp   (281 words)

  
 Player Bio: Bill Bradley :: Football
Bill Bradley, who inherited a unit which ranked 105th and 112th nationally in total and scoring defense, respectively, begins his third season as Baylor's defensive coordinator.
The Bills, who advanced to the AFC playoffs in both 1998 and 1999, led the NFL in total defense in 1999, and ranked third in that category in 1998 and sixth in 2000.
Bradley, who led the NFL in interceptions in both 1971 (11) and 1972 (nine), became the first player ever to lead the league in interceptions in consecutive seasons, a feat that has been matched just once since.
baylorbears.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/bradley_bill00.html   (759 words)

  
 Rustic Kitchen- Executive Chef Bill Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bill Bradley’s gastronomic career began when he was young.
As a junior in High School, Bradley’s parlayed his first job as a dishwasher into a promotion to salad and sandwich preparer after just a couple of weeks and then by the end of that summer, he was the Chef.Later that year, he landed an unpaid internship with at L’Epicure under Chef Jean Roger Gibelino.
Bradley spent the next three and a half years there, learning everything he could under the direction of Gibelino.
www.rustickitchen.biz /about/executive_chef.asp   (557 words)

  
 Bill Bradley Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bradley’s “scientific” approach to basketball enabled him to enjoy two distinct careers as a collegian and a professional.
As a college superstar, Bradley was the focal point of Princeton’s offense; as a 10-year pro with the New York Knicks, he was an integral cog on a team that featured several All-Stars.
In 1965, Bradley became the first basketball player chosen as winner of the prestigious AAU Sullivan Award, presented to the top amateur athlete in the country.
www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Bradley.htm   (613 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bradley endorses Dean - Jan. 6, 2004
Bill Bradley and Howard Dean shared a stage in Manchester, New Hampshire, Tuesday, as Bradley gave Dean his endorsement.
Bill Bradley endorses Howard Dean in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Bradley, who served with John Kerry in the Senate for several years, had little to say about his former colleague, who is battling to regain his footing against Dean in Iowa and New Hampshire.
edition.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/elec04.prez.dean.bradley   (716 words)

  
 kaus files dot com
Bradley opposed the bill, with his customary self-satisfied high-mindedness.
Bradley's answer was probably the best he could do with this question.
With Bradley, we have that rare instance of a potentially devastating negative political spot that would be justified in both substance and proportionality.
www.kausfiles.com /archive/index.08.03.99.html   (986 words)

  
 Profile of Bill Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Bradleys lived a comfortable, middle-class life in a small, blue-collar company town on the banks of the Mississippi River, thirty-six miles south of St. Louis.
Bradley is married to the former Ernestine Schlant, a professor of German and Comparative Literature at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Bradley served as an intern in the early 1960s in the congressional office of Richard Schweiker (R-Pa.) and then on the presidential campaign of former Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton.
www.govote.com /Profile_Bill_Bradley.htm   (344 words)

  
 Bill Bradley on Families & Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bradley advocated expanding the Family and Medical Leave Act, which requires employers with 50 or more employees to give workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year for reasons like childbirth or family illness.
Painting an American portrait of stressed-out parents and deserted kitchen tables, Bill Bradley proposed $2.6 billion in annual help to families everything from preschool and child care, to community colleges and a new army of senior-citizen volunteers.
Bradley said [his full proposal package] would be paid for out of the federal budget surplus, like his $65 billion-per-year universal health plan.
www.issues2000.org /Celeb/Bill_Bradley_Families_+_Children.htm   (1482 words)

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