Word: governorship
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...only turn in public life was as chairman of the board of International Broadcasting for eight years, a position that gave him a little exposure to Washington. His foray into campaign politics so far consists of advising Christine Todd Whitman in her successful run for the New Jersey governorship in 1993. So he takes comfort in the example of Wendell Willkie, the utilities executive and political neophyte who grabbed the G.O.P. nomination in 1940. Forbes is willing to spend $10 million of his own money--an estimated 5% of his fortune--on his outsider...
...regard for Perot has ebbed. Waning loyalty to the major parties, rather than enthusiasm for any one independent leader, whets the appetite for alternatives. "You're going to see a centrist, third-party challenge in '96, without question," says Lowell Weicker, a former Republican Senator who won Connecticut's governorship as an independent. Others speculate about a fourth party as well...
...having just raised $26 million for the Governor's race, can he really go back to the well all over again and say, 'Oh, now I have to raise more money to run for President'?" Most important, powerful Republicans in Sacramento are pressuring Wilson not to relinquish the governorship to the capable but liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Gray Davis. Wilson, however, has a history of overcoming tactical ob-stacles with the grit of a Marine platoon leader showing recruits how to scale a roped wall, which he once did. In 28 years of elective politics, Wilson has lost just...
Roberts, 58, entered the political scene on behalf of her autistic child in an effort to increase state and federal aid to mentally retarded children. In addition to the governorship, she held several elected positions in Oregon, including state representative and secretary of state...
Weld, a longtime U.S. attorney, won the governorship in 1990 by a narrow margin. His victory, which was backed by many liberal Democrats, was seen as a rejection of his opponent, acerbic Boston University president John T. Silber...