Word: governorship
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...level, the vote was simply the latest machination in Michigan tax politics, which resembles nothing so much as a billion-dollar game of chicken. Engler, a Republican, won the governorship in 1990 by less than 1% after promising in the campaign to cut property taxes 20%. His attempts to do so -- and to replace the revenues by increasing the sales tax -- were rejected by the voters until last summer, when state Democrats, in an apparent act of political grandstanding, proposed to do away with education-funding property taxes without naming any alternative revenue source. To the applause of some onlookers...
BOSTON--Calling job creation his top priority, State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) officially declared his candidacy for the governorship of Massachusetts last night...
When State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) and State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) were the only Democratic candidates for the governorship of Massachusetts, observers complained that the two candidates were too similar...
Never get tarred as soft on crime. Bill Clinton learned that lesson late, but he learned it well. After regaining Arkansas' governorship in 1982, which he had lost in 1980 to a law-and-order rival, Clinton set 70 execution dates for 26 prisoners over 10 years; three were actually put to death. To reaffirm his mettle as he ran for the White House, Clinton rushed home from New Hampshire to deny a condemned murderer's clemency plea. The brain-damaged killer barely knew his own identity, let alone the fate that awaited him (at his last meal, he saved...
...Massie is running not just on his own attributes, but perhaps even more on his opposition to the stances of present Governor William F. Weld '66. Massie is succinct in his views on the Weld governorship...