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...polls are close. As Now. 3 approaches, L. Scott Harshbarger '64 and Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci remain locked in a tight battle for governor. Although their positions are similar on many issues, they have come to verbal blows over the question of how to treat welfare recipients. Harshbarger calls Cellucci's stance "anti-child, anti-woman;" Cellucci accuses Harshbarger of being far too soft on welfare moms and far too liberal with state money. Since they offer very different agendas around this issue, the outcome of this election may have a direct effect on many of Massachusetts...
...Cellucci, on the other hand, wants to minimize time-limit exceptions for families that are ill-equipped to move into the workplace. These families may indeed have problems, but he thinks that the state should no longer subsidize them. Whether he has plans to deal with hunger and housing crises for poor children--crises that would result from unqualified enforcement of the welfare reform time limits--is an entirely different question...
...Cellucci's latest ads, which ridicules Harshbarger for defending the civil rights of practicing witches in Salem, Mass., and not putting up Christmas decorations in his office, exemplifies how this campaign has deteriorated...
...didn't have to be this ugly. After the primary, Harshbarger invited Cellucci to join him in avoiding negative advertising in order to focus on the issues. Cellucci refused to make such a promise, and the voters are now suffering the consequences. Cellucci's consistent misrepresentation of Harshbarger's record as attorney general, coupled with Harshbarger's mean-spirited attacks on Cellucci's personal debt, have prevented discussion of matters important to Massachusetts voters...
Additionally, Cellucci's repeated attempts to have Harshbarger take a "no new taxes" pledge is a poor political ploy to paint the Democrat as a tax-and-spend liberal, while Harshbarger has rightly pointed out that the pledge limits the power and flexibility of the governor's office...