Word: governorship
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Roosevelt, who has both bachelor's and law degrees from Harvard, is seeking the state's governorship on a moderate platform that includes support for increased education reform, reduced taxes and more employment opportunities, as well as opposition to legalized gambling in Boston...
Last week Herbert Hoover's son Allan died, Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis, 41, announced her engagement to a 27-year-old laborer, and George Bush's eldest son George W., 47, declared his candidacy for the Texas governorship. Here's what other children of recent Presidents...
...fraud perpetrated by a vast conspiracy. Virtually everyone you saw on-screen -- reporters, analysts, candidates and their handlers -- knew what everyone else was waiting to hear, yet pretended ignorance. Not just that Clinton would win, but by what margin in which states. And the Senate and governorship results too. All available at the punch of a computer button hours before they were reported to viewers...
When pundits speculated that Joseph P. Kennedy II might abandon his U.S. House seat two years ago to seek the governorship, Barrett says he considered making a bid for the position. But now, Barrett appears to have forsaken any designs he had on the House seat, saying that Kennedy is "just settling in" and that "he's doing a wonderful...
...been plagued in recent years by rich guys bored with making boodle who decide to take up public service instead. An entirely commendable impulse, but why don't they start by running for the school board or the county commissioners' court? Why do they always want to buy the governorship or a senatorship? Or, in the case of Perot, who's richer than God, the presidency? It's enough to make you yearn for the good old days, when rich guys just bought racehorses and yachts...