Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the coming months, Dukakis faces a battle over next year's budget with an angry legislature while still facing this year's revenue shortfall.
A year ago, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis campaigned across the country touting the "Massachusetts Miracle." Aides to powerful Senate President William M. Bulger, a Democrat, were quietly talking about a campaign for state-wide office. And no rational politician dared make designs...
Dukakis's proposed fiscal 1990 budget--which was unveiled last week and calls for a 12.4 percent increase in state spending--is already under attack from legislative leaders, who denounced the $13.4 billion plan, saying the governor is unaware of the state's "new fiscal realties."
Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair Patricia MacGovern (D-Lawrence), whose committee must approve the budget, has requested that Dukakis rescind his proposal and overhaul the plan before resubmitting it.
During the Atlanta convention, he had 20 telephone lines in his hotel suite. At least twice a day, he met with the Dukakis camp, using a three-page game plan he had hammered out with Jackson and his entourage during an all-night session in Nashville the Friday before the...