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Fifty-five percent of those polled said that Weld deserved reelection, while 29 percent said that someone else should hold the governorship...
...election were held today, say the pollsters, Brown would unseat the implacable Wilson. Eight other states held primaries yesterday. The most notable: Fred Grandy, who overcame his reputation as the clownish "Gopher" on "The Love Boat" to win a seat in Congress, lost his bid for the governorship of Iowa...
...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...