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...Motors Corp., announced that he would make his first run for elective of fice. Said Michigan's Romney: "I will be a candidate for the Republican guberna torial nomination." Although Romney is a cinch to win that nomination, he faces an uphill fight against Incumbent Democratic Governor John Swainson in the fall. Yet many a politician and pundit were already measuring him for 1964, and the reasons were plain enough. The Republicans have three much bigger names than Romney, but each carries some weighty liabilities. Nixon bears the onus of his 1960 defeat; he has his hands full this...
When Romney comes up against Incumbent Swainson, who has a lackluster record but is a Democrat in a state that has elected only Democratic Governors for the past 14 years, his attractions will be sternly tested. A recent Detroit News poll indicated that if the election had been held in January, Swainson would have won, with 50.7% against 41.9% (7.4% were undecided...
With the retirement of the bond issue that originally floated the 23-year-old Blue Water International Bridge between Port Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Ontario. Michigan's Democratic Governor John B. Swainson, 36, stoically took the only appropriate action. By executive decree, he ended the two-bit toll on the bridge-and with it the $6,115-a-year toll-collector's job held since 1957 by John A. C. Swainson. 57, his father...
What was more, the Republicans were quick to blame Swainson for some political partisanship when he vetoed a bill calling for stricter voter registration in Detroit, the Democratic stronghold that the G.O.P. suspects of wholesale vote stealing last November...
Just before the legislature adjourned last week, Governor Swainson really enraged the Republicans: he vetoed a bill that would have barred payments of state unemployment benefits to Michigan employees thrown out of work by the effects of an out-of-state strike (as in the case of a Michigan auto company that laid off men after its Ohio supplier plant was struck by the United Auto Workers). The Republicans shouted that Swainson, like Soapy before him, was playing the U.A.W. game. Retorted Swainson: "Strictly a political charge, of course." Thus the brief romance between John Swainson and the Michigan legislature...