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...majority's power, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller quickly summoned a special session of the old legislature, forced through a reapportionment bill favoring Republicans and two measures that put $617 million of the state's bond reserves out of Democratic reach. Said Lame Duck Rochester Republican Assemblyman Eugene Goddard: "It's a common practice when you're about to be taken over by the Huns to change the locks on the doors...
Yorty, 55, is no pushover, not even for the eldest son of F.D.R. A maverick, he started his political career as an ultraliberal California assemblyman but turned conservative, and vociferously antiCommunist, during two terms in the U.S. House and backed Republican Richard Nixon in 1960. That brought threats from regular Democrats to get Sam's scalp, but he went on to win an upset victory for mayor...
...Berkeley Assemblyman Do Mulford said that the uprising was "far more insidious than it appears on the surface." Addressing the GOP State Central Committee, he termed the demonstrations "Communist inspired...
Probably not one voter in 20 can name the state assemblyman from his district; yet the struggle for control of the legislatures produced some of the most remarkable results of the election. For example...
Pffft went the tires of the Ghana Ambassador, three federal Congressmen, one state assemblyman, and a plainclothes detective shadowing a suspect. One squad of cops was discovered gleefully flattening the tires of 35 legally parked cars, until someone pointed out the error. When police moved in on six illegally parked official cars they almost came to blows with some marines on guard; a squad of battle-dressed tommy gunners was eventually called up to protect the wheels' wheels...