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...takes with the force of his own personality." A 1997 study by the University of North Carolina ranked the powers of the office 49th out of the 50 governorships--which makes Texas "a perfectly good training ground for the [weak] Executive power of the presidency," says Bruce Buchanan, professor of government at the University of Texas. As with the President, the Governor's success depends on his use of the bully pulpit and his relationships with legislators. "Bush recognized that," says Laney, "so he wanted to work with us from...
...between us and said, 'We need y'all to have a meeting today to vote'" on the bill containing full-family sanctions. As Maxey tells it, Smith then said, "We think we need to adopt the Governor's welfare reform. The Governor needs sanctions to protect himself against Pat Buchanan in the primaries." Smith says he told them only that Buchanan would have a "heyday" with their welfare proposal...
...billionaire saw him as a bit of a kook. When JACK GARGAN, Ventura's candidate, became the party's chair last year, war broke out. Then came the parade of drop-ins--first DONALD TRUMP, then WARREN BEATTY. By the time professional activist LENORA FULANI had relocated in PAT BUCHANAN'S kitchen, it was just too weird. Last week, Perot allies ousted Gargan in a meeting marred by shouting and shoving. When Ventura dubs the party a "dysfunctional family," he's being kind...
...Hampshire has always been useful less for picking winners--ask almost-Presidents Buchanan, Tsongas and Hart--than for chastening losers, stripping them bare, exposing the phonies, humbling the pundits, rewarding the pirates and generally leaving the impression that the voters might actually have some role to play in deciding who gets to be President. Even so, no one was prepared for what happened to American politics last week...
...with Buchanan, you can ask Keyes what time it is, and the answer will include a withering indictment of moral depravity and possibly end with his head igniting. And as with Buchanan, you are never quite sure whether to stand up and cheer or run for the hills...