Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major parties had little to crow about, but not much to complain about either. They split the two gubernatorial races. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord...
...expected, Democrats kept most of the mayors' jobs in big cities, but in many cases party dissidents or independents bucked the regular organization and won. In Pittsburgh, Interim Mayor Richard Caliguiri, a Democrat who ran as an independent with support from the ethnic wards, beat Democratic candidate Thomas Foerster, a more conventional liberal. It was the third successive mayoralty defeat for the once mighty Pittsburgh machine. In Cleveland, scrappy Dennis Kucinich, 31, a former three-term city councilman, edged out Edward Feighan, 30, the candidate of the regular Democratic organization, and promised a thorough housecleaning at city hall...
Cleveland: Dennis Kucinich smiles like an altar boy and snarls like a truck driver-a potent combination in a city of energetic ethnics. Part Irish, part Croatian, standing 5 ft. 6 in. and looking even younger than he is, Democrat Kucinich is accused of going for the jugular even when he does not have to. He accused Republican Mayor Ralph Perk in the primary of selling out to business interests and neglecting the neighborhoods. Perk finished a poor third behind Kucinich and State Representative Feighan...
...Dominion, John Dalton, 46, easily made Howell, who had run in 1969 and 1973, a three-time loser, picking up 56% of the 1.2 million votes cast. Dalton, a moderate conservative, overcame the 2-to-l Democratic bulge in the Virginia electorate by attracting twice as many independent voters as Howell. Only the election of middle-of-the-road Democrat Charles S. (Chuck) Robb as Lieut. Governor gave the Democrats any joy. Lawyer Robb, 38, Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law, is already being touted as a possible gubernatorial candidate...
Garth's original and enduring love is the TV tube. He dropped out of Columbia's graduate psychology department 20 years ago to produce local TV sports programs in New York City. A liberal Democrat who grew up on Republican Long Island, he got into politics in 1960 as an organizer of the Draft Stevenson movement. After working as the unpaid television adviser in John Lindsay's successful 1965 mayoral campaign, he plunged full-time into political consulting...