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  Tipper Gore -- Gore-LIEberman 2000 unofficial campaign web site
In 1985, Tipper Gore made a name for herself as a crusader against "porn rock." She was a founding member of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), a group which emerged overnight on the national media scene.
Gore echoed his wife’s feeling that the hearing ‘was not a good idea,’ and attempted to exculpate himself from the proceedings by virtue of the fact that he was ‘a freshman minority member of the committee’ in no position to veto the affair.
Tipper Gore has scaled back her fight against explicit rock music in an attempt to pander to the left wing of the Democrat Party.
crm114.com /algore/tipper.html   (2806 words)

  
  Tipper Gore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tipper was born on August 19, 1948, at 2:40 AM EDT in Washington D.C. Interestingly enough, her husband's other "partner", Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946...wives and best friends often share similar energies, because they represent our shadow selves.
Tipper was born with the Sun in Leo, the Moon in Aquarius and Cancer rising.
Tipper was born in the Year of the Rat, the Month of the Dragon (see "Chinese Power Animals" due to be released in June of 2000 for the reasoning behind this animal for Leo), the Hours of the Ox and the Minute of the Snake.
www.acumind.com /News/Tipper.html   (1119 words)

  
 Tipper Gore - Biography
Although she planned to become a child psychologist, Tipper Gore, wife of Democratic presidential candidate, Al Gore, has made activism her career, endorsing various causes from reducing violence in the media to helping the homeless.
Tipper attended St. Stephens and St. Agnes, a private Episcopalian school in Alexandria, Virginia, where she excelled at athletics and played the drums for an all-girl band, the Wildcats.
Tipper has since downplayed her objections to media violence, prompting observers to note that many Hollywood and media executives have been strong allies of the Clinton administration.
www.infoplease.com /spot/tippergore1.html   (467 words)

  
 Tipper Gore Recovering from Biopsy (washingtonpost.com)
Wednesday, December 29, 1999; 1:00 PM Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore, is scheduled to be released from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore this afternoon after a surgeon successfully removed a growth from her thyroid.
Gore's spokeswoman, Camille Johnston, said the nodule was discovered "a couple of months ago as an incidental finding" during a follow-up examination for an exercise-related injury.
Gore consulted Udelsman, a Johns Hopkins physician, because he is an expert in endocrinology and decided to remain in his care, Johnston said.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/29/tipper.htm   (299 words)

  
 CNN.com - Tipper Gore says no to Senate bid - March 18, 2002
Tipper Gore, wife of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, says she considered entering the Senate race.
Gore's decision to forgo the race appeared to clear the way to the Democratic nomination for Rep. Bob Clement, an eight-term U.S. House member from Nashville and the son of a former Tennessee governor.
Gore's future had swirled through Washington last week as sources confirmed the Gores are in the process of buying a home in Nashville.
archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/17/tipper.senate/index.html   (604 words)

  
 Tipper Gore hopes to give faces to issue of homelessness
That was the notion that motivated Tipper Gore to turn back to her roots as a photojournalist.
Gore, who is the wife of former Vice President Al Gore, started work as an advocate for the homeless in the mid-1980s, after her children -- who were in grade school at the time -- asked her about a homeless woman they saw on the street.
Gore's photos include two taken in Tennessee in 1974 -- one of them a fl-and-white portrait of a woman who had been evicted from her apartment.
www.postgazette.com /headlines/20020105tipper0105p3.asp   (410 words)

  
 Tipper Gore Feedback
Though Tipper herself may be quite happy to bypass the presidential mansion, her solar return chart for this year has the 7th lord, Jupiter, in the benefic 9th aspecting the ascendant.
Tipper's 24 Pisces SR Moon is in her natal 10th and trines both her natal Jupiter (26 Scorpio) and Pluto (22 Cancer).
Tipper Gore is blessed with Venus in Cancer on the ascendant giving her the mother of the year image.
www.astrodatabank.com /NMGoreTipperFB.htm   (1513 words)

  
 Tipper Gore undergoes operation for nodule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
WASHINGTON — Tipper Gore, the wife of Vice President Al Gore, is undergoing surgery to remove a nodule recently discovered on her thyroid gland, her spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Gore did not know of the nodule, or growth, until it was discovered during a recent, unrelated medical exam, the spokeswoman said.
Gore was scheduled to remain in the hospital overnight, and the vice president was expected to stay with her.
www.bouldernews.com /news/worldnation/29agore.html   (332 words)

  
 CNN.com - Speculation swirls: Tipper Gore for Senate - March 15, 2002
Gore, long held to be a reluctant political wife, would seriously consider having her own political career.
Gore's future swirled through Washington as sources confirmed the Gores are in the process of buying a home in Nashville.
Al Gore, who won the popular vote but lost the election after a vote-counting controversy ultimately was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, has been increasingly visible in the past few months as he stumps for candidates in 2002 races.
archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/15/tipper.senate   (423 words)

  
 :: NASA Quest > Women of NASA ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Gore co-founded and chaired Families for the Homeless, a nonpartisan partnership of families that aims to raise public awareness of homeless issues.
Gore received a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Boston University in 1970 and her master's degree in psychology from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University in 1975.
Gore worked as a newspaper photographer for the Nashville Tennessean until her husband was elected to Congress in 1976.
quest.arc.nasa.gov /women/TODTWD/gore.bio.html   (569 words)

  
 Tipper Gore implores citizens to vote, mourns loss of Missouri governor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore, came to speak at John A. Logan Community College, but the mood was tempered by the death of former Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed Monday night in a plane crash outside St. Louis.
Gore stopped briefly in Carterville before heading to St. Louis to watch her husband square off with George W. Bush in the last of the presidential debates.
Tipper Gore, a native of Arlington, Va., has involved herself in a number of endeavors, including issues relating to children and health care.
www.dailyegyptian.com /fall00/10-18-00/gore.html   (762 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - ISSUES - Tipper Gore Mulls Tennessee Senate Run
Gore would run, however, given her tendency to shrink from the limelight during the presidential campaign and her general unease about the national political process.
A Democratic official who spoke with Al Gore on Thursday said the former vice president had mentioned that his wife was talking to people in Tennessee who are eager for her to run and is thinking through the possibility of a Senate campaign.
Gore would follow in the path of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. At the urging of Democrats, the former first lady ran for, and captured, her Senate seat at the end of her husband's term.
www.truthout.com /docs_02/03.16H.Tipper.Senate.htm   (555 words)

  
 Skeleton Closet - Al Gore, The Dark Side
Tipper and I were supposed to do $1.1 million, and it looks like we will be closer to $1.3 million." Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward estimates that Gore and his network raised fully $40 million of the Democratic National Committee's $180 million total in 1995 and 1996.
Knight also ran Gore's House and Senate offices for years and helped finance his campaigns; Time calls him "the hub of Gore's political circle." Haney claims that the million bucks was a fee for "advice" on attracting the FCC to the Portals; that must have been some damn good advice.
But Gore recently (on September 18, 2000) told a union meeting that his parents sung him to sleep with lullabies such as "Look for the union label" -- a song that was written as a jingle for a union ad in 1975, when Gore was 27.
www.realchange.org /gore.htm   (3940 words)

  
 Tipper's Dance
When Gore speaks of his wife, what comes through most clearly is his gratitude, his feeling that she rescued him emotionally and his appreciation for the price she paid to be the wife he needed her to be.
Gore's staff tends to steer clear of her, as a surprising number of his aides have remarked in passing over the last year.
By the sound of it, Tipper was glad to be getting another crack at a happy childhood, away from the pressures, in the refuge of her real life.
partners.nytimes.com /library/magazine/home/20001001mag-tipper.html   (2805 words)

  
 Tipper Gore - Biography
Although she planned to become a child psychologist, Tipper Gore, wife of Democratic presidential candidate, Al Gore, has made activism her career, endorsing various causes from reducing violence in the media to helping the homeless.
Tipper attended St. Stephens and St. Agnes, a private Episcopalian school in Alexandria, Virginia, where she excelled at athletics and played the drums for an all-girl band, the Wildcats.
Tipper has since downplayed her objections to media violence, prompting observers to note that many Hollywood and media executives have been strong allies of the Clinton administration.
www.factmonster.com /spot/tippergore1.html   (453 words)

  
 ABC News: Tipper Gore Ready For Another White House Run
Tipper Gore says she will support her husband if he decides to make another run at the White House.
Al Gore is back in the political spotlight with his new documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," and some are wondering if he'll make another run for president.
Tipper Gore's photograph's range from nature shots to portraits of world leaders, representing the unique vantage point she had at the White House for eight years.
abcnews.go.com /GMA/story?id=2069724&page=1   (491 words)

  
 Tipper Gore
Tipper (a nickname she was given as a little girl from a lullaby), met Al Gore at his high school senior prom.
The Gore family increased with the addition of four kids, Karenna, born on 8/06/1973, Kristin, 6/05/1977, Sarah, 1/07/1979, and Albert III, 10/19/1982.
Since Al Gore was first elected to Congress in 1976, Tipper spent most of her time raising their kids in their Arlington, VA home.
www.astrodatabank.com /NMGoreTipper.htm   (848 words)

  
 NPR : Tipper Gore and Family Values
Tipper Gore, left, and the late Frank Zappa testify in separate appearances before a Senate panel about government regulation of objectionable music lyrics in 1985.
Gore says she surveyed the music landscape and found everything from "bubblegum" pop to heavy metal to songs about violence against women and killing police officers.
Gore, whose 1985 testimony before a Senate panel was countered by musicians Frank Zappa and Dee Snyder of the group Twisted Sister, says she wasn't out to censor the objectionable material.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4279560   (1043 words)

  
 Al Gore 2008 - Tipper Gore Ready to Support Another White House Run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It was Tipper Gore who pushed her husband to refocus on his longstanding interest in environmental issues, as a means of moving on.
Tipper Gore insisted neither she nor her husband dwell on what might have been if her husband became president in 2000.
Tipper Gore said her husband will be able to affect policy and the public debate on key issues even if he never enters politics again.
www.algore04.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=81   (897 words)

  
 Tipper Gore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Elizabeth Gore (born August 19, 1948), known as Tipper Gore, is the wife of former Vice President Al Gore and was Second Lady of the United States from 1993 until 2001.
Gore received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Boston University in 1970 and her master's degree in psychology from George Peabody College, which later merged into Vanderbilt University in 1975.
In 2002, Tipper was urged by her supporters to run for the vacant U.S. Senate seat her husband once held in Tennessee, which was being vacated by Fred Dalton Thompson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tipper_Gore   (730 words)

  
 Hillsborough: Tipper Gore stops by a youth center in Tampa Heights
TAMPA -- Tipper Gore toured a youth center in Tampa Heights on Thursday as part of a campaign swing through Central Florida for her husband, Vice President Al Gore.
Gore shook hands with the Salesian Youth Center's staff, said hello to the students and quizzed parents about how the center made a difference in their children's lives.
Gore was thinking of stopping by as part of her husband's presidential campaigning, and was looking for an "education venue," said campaign consultant Karl Koch.
www.sptimes.com /News/061600/Hillsborough/Tipper_Gore_stops_by_.shtml   (534 words)

  
 Copernicus Election Watch | The Candidates
Born on March 31, 1948, Al Gore is the son of former U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr.
He married Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson in 1970, but soon thereafter enlisted in the Army, and served as a reporter in Vietnam.
Gore began his political career in 1976, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee.
www.edgate.com /elections/inactive/the_candidates/gore   (315 words)

  
 Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Gore co-founded and chaired Families for the Homeless, a non-partisan partnership of families that aims to raise public awareness of homeless issues.
Gore received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University in 1970 and her Master's degree in Psychology from George Peabody College in 1975.
Gore is well known as an avid photographer; she worked as a photographer for the Nashville Tennessean until her husband was elected to Congress in 1976.
clinton1.nara.gov /White_House/EOP/VP_Wife/html/TIPPER_Home.html   (382 words)

  
 Who is Tipper Gore? - June 16, 1999
Gore has been taking a higher-profile role in her husband's campaign, working both inside and outside of the Gore operation to help the image of a campaign that has already run out of steam.
Gore also started work at the newspaper as a part-time photographer while raising their first child, Karenna, and pursuing a master's degree in psychology at George Peabody College.
Gore's work to promote awareness of children's health, women's issues, homelessness, and AIDS has turned her into one of the leading health advocates in the nation.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/16/president.2000/mrsgore.biography/index.html   (655 words)

  
 Mon Valley rolls out red, white and blue carpet for Tipper Gore
Tipper Gore visited Monongahela yesterday to rally votes for her husband, Vice President Al Gore, in this traditional Democratic stronghold.
Gore's afternoon speech at the Chess Park gazebo was festive, with bagpipe player David Olsen warming up the crowd, followed by a Ringgold High School Band performance and high school cheerleaders doing a Tipper cheer.
Gore said President Clinton helped create 22 million new jobs in eight years and the lowest unemployment rate in history.
www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20001027tipper2.asp   (569 words)

  
 A Biography: Tipper Gore
Tipper Gore is the wife of Vice President Al Gore.
They were married on May 19, 1970 at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. That same year, Tipper received her B.A. degree in Psychology from Boston University and in 1975, received a Master's Degree in Psychology from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University.
With her husband and four children, Karenna (born August 6, 1973), Kristin (June 5, 1977), Sarah (January 7, 1979) and Albert III (October 19, 1982), Tipper Gore likes to jog, bike, hike, ski and rollerblade.
www.a-ten.com /biographies/tipper_gore.html   (870 words)

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