Word: governor
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Republican candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and other key offices are optimistic that the new decade could end an era in which their party has played a small role. Democrats, on the other hand, are fighting to save their reputations--tarnished by the state's fiscal crisis--and preserve a 20-year rule on Beacon Hill...
...Nineteen-ninety is going to be an amazing political year in Massachusetts," says Rep. Stephen D. Pierce (R-Westfield), House minority leader and a frontrunner in the Republican primary for governor. "This gubernatorial cycle has kicked off earlier and with more intensity than before...
Five Republican candidates have begun raising money for campaigns for governor--a position that has not been won by their party since 1972. Although so far they have not generated the amount of campaign money their Democratic counterparts have, they have a number of other advantages...
...Indeed, in some instances, [the Republicans] were correct," says Rep. John Flood (D-Canton), a candidate for governor and chair of the Taxation Committee. He says he has voiced his opposition to the Democrats' budget plans since they were first debated...
...California, where America's tax revolt began in 1978 with Proposition 13 rolling back property levies, will have to consider a tax boost. The state has begun payments out of a $1 billion emergency fund, but Governor George Deukmejian does not intend to drain that fund, and even if he did, more would be required. The Governor is expected to call the state legislature into special session in another week or so to decide how much more relief is needed and how to pay for it. It is hard to see how any significant amount could be made available without...