Word: dreyfus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Georgia, Kentucky and Rhode Island, Governors kept trucks moving by calling out the police or the National Guard for protection. In the Midwest the truckers disrupted deliveries of gas and diesel oil for stations in eight states. After independents blocked fuel storage depots in Green Bay, Wis., Governor Lee Dreyfus declared a state of emergency, and police ordered the line of trucks removed. Said Dreyfus Aide Bill Kraus: "The truckers found the aorta and put their thumb on it, but the gas is now going everywhere again...
...this sounds unconventional, so is the avuncular Dreyfus, whose wife Joyce refers to him affectionately as "Flannel Mouth." After his upset victory over Democratic Incumbent Governor Martin Schreiber, he is emerging as a bright new Republican figure...
...former professor of mass communications who became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at 41, Dreyfus is a self-styled "Republicrat." He only joined the G.O.P. in December of 1977. "If you're going to take 'em over, the least you can do is join 'em," he says. An accomplished orator, he challenged and beat Congressman Robert Kasten, the official party choice, in the 1978 primary. He then went on to defeat Schreiber on a platform of open government, curtailed spending and tax relief. It was quite a feat for a political...
...Dreyfus carried out his pledges. Before even proposing a budget, he got the Democratic-controlled legislature to pass a tax-cut bill, which in effect returned the state's huge tax surplus to the people without cutting services. "First you decide how much money there is, and then you decide what you're going to spend it on," he argued. He opened off-limits meetings to journalists, and he announced that there would be a new fiscal restraint. Although he has proposed a budget that is 20% higher than the previous one, Dreyfus maintains that "my key program...
...Dreyfus' real feat to date, though, has been his rejuvenation of the state Republican Party, all but moribund since 1970. Preaching that the party must become more progressive to survive, he has crisscrossed the state, drawing crowds of 500 and 600 at rallies that once attracted only 50 or 60. His efforts to court new party members, particularly among the independents who helped elect him, have paid off. G.O.P. membership is up about 1,500 in the first five months of 1979, and party contributions are expected to increase $100,000 over previously projected figures for the year. "Dreyfus...