Word: brotherton
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...Brotherton, a B.U. junior and delegate to the College of Liberal Arts Forum, a B.U. student government organization, said yesterday student support of the faculty was widespread...
...West Virginia history. Like Thompson, he promised a limited, efficient government. But Rockefeller has had trouble living up to that goal. A balky state legislature, though controlled by fellow Democrats, has shredded some of his major proposals. "His first seven months were a total loss," admits Senate President William Brotherton, a Rockefeller ally. "He's not flamboyant, and that's a drawback. He states the facts like an accountant." Rockefeller does not demur from this judgment, but he likes to remind people, fairly enough, that he still has three years to go in his first term...
...Maybe people expected him to solve all their problems right away because he is a Rockefeller," says Brotherton. "He has found out that state government is a give-and-take proposition, and he communicates a lot better than he did at first. He's a bigger man than when he came into office...
THIS WAS ALL very depressing, especially on this particular kind of morning. But the final candidacy that ruined my morning was the election for the state senate in my district. Opposing William Brotherton, incumbent and senate president, was Marvin Horan. Marvin Horan is a truck driver-turned-preacher at the First Independent Calvary Baptist Chruch of Witcher's Creek, West Virginia. He is presently appealing his three-year sentence for blowing up Midway Elementary School during the textbook issue. I just didn't want to look at the big pink road map after that...