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...convinced himself that he should run for President. He was saved from making the race in 1964 by a series of political setbacks in Michigan the preceding year: his state constitution was almost defeated, his tax program killed by a Republican legislature, and he was running behind ex-Governor Swainson in the polls. Now he must prove himself to conservative Republicans, who dislike the non-partisan tone of his earlier efforts and his refusal to support Barry Goldwater in 1964. He will almost certainly win reelection. The three Democrats who might have threatened Romney--Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh. Attorney...
...crucial, because Romney's list of accomplishments is astonishingly small. Romney could persuade the heavily Republican legislature to fulfill few of the campaign promises made in 1962. Romney was even less successful than his Democratic predecessor in his efforts to enact a badly needed tax reform. governor John Swainson's bill made it to the floor of the State Senate and almost passed, while Romney's bill died in committee...
Romney's Presidential stock feel fastest, however, when the Legislature rejected his tax program. The governor had proposed an income tax, lower corporation taxes, and the removal of the four per cent sales tax on food and drugs--virtually the same program his predecessor, John B. Swainson, had advanced a year before. If anything, Romney had worse luck than Swainson in the Legislature. At one point, Swainson had a majority of the state Senate supporting his bill, when suddenly six moderate Republicans decided at once that each of the other five was going to change his vote, and the bill...
...Michigan's first Republican governor since "Soapy" Williams won the first of his six terms in 1948. But Michigan has given Democrats other than Williams consistent majorities only since 1954, and their pluralities have seldom been large--again Williams is the exception. In this light, Romney's victory over Swainson by 80,000 votes in 1962 pales beside Scranton's 480,000 margin and Rockefeller...
...failure of Romney's tax program probably cost him more votes. A poll taken for ex-Governor Swainson surprisingly showed Swainson ahead of Romney, 50.1 per cent to 49.5 in the gubernatorial contest. Swainson, however, has ruled himself out of November's race for reasons of health, and the likely winner of the Democratic nomination is Neil Staebler, now Congressman-at-Large and the Democratic State Chairman who presided over Williams's victories. Staebler won his '62 race--his first--by 110,000 votes, and although he is not as well-known as Swainson, he does not have the close...