Word: bellotti
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...each campaign stop the GOP "Volpe--An Experienced Governor." candidate hammers away at the two "gut" issues of experience and clean government. Bellotti's first office is his present one, the Lieutenant-Governorship, while Volpe has served as Commissioner of Public Works "scandal-free years," he says), Federal Highway Administrator, and of course, Governor. He also boasts years of administrative experience as president of the large building firm he founded, the John A. Volpe Construction Company...
...honesty issue. He established the Crime Commission which started the indictment ball rolling. Only one of his appointees as Governor, Warren Giles, was ever indicted, and his name was forced upon Volpe by a balky Governor's Council. The ex-Governor contrasts this record with what he terms "Bellotti's shady dealings." In this way he hopes to exploit the widespread conviction among independent voters that Bellotti's defeat of Peabody represented a victory for the forces of corruption within the Democratic Party...
...come out strongly for House Bill 3000, which would transfer the statutory powers of the Governor's Council to the Governor. A constant hurdle to firm executive leadership, and frequently a den of corruption, the Council has drawn fire from nearly all of the state's independent political organizations. Bellotti, who several years ago advocated abolishing the Council, now says that he "could live with it." This stand may cost him the independent vote which Peabody garnered for the Democrats...
Last week's Columbus Day parade indicated that Bellotti may also lose much of the typically Democratic Italian vote. The ex-Governor outshone his opponent as they marched together through Boston's East End, a Democratic and Italian stronghold. Many young woman and children chanted "Volpe, Volpe," and a few broke police lines to besiege the GOP candidate with hugs, kisses, and flowers. Later in the week, Volpe also seemed popular with Lawrence's Italian laborers. As one textile worker said, "Both candidates real nice, you know Italian. But I take Volpe, I think, he so nice...
However, the ex-Governor does have problems, at least thirteen of them: Bellotti's 12 children and Goldwater. The "virility issue," as Volpe's aides call it, cannot be met rationally. Everyone in Massachusetts knows about, and feels either sympathy or admiration for, the fatherly ambitions of the Democratic nominee. The issue is one of the great imponderables of the campaign...