Word: dukakises
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The Bay State's political past at times threatened to engulf both candidates, with Cellucci branding Harshbarger a Dukakis-style tax and spend liberal and Harshbarger accusing Cellucci of riding the coattails of former governor William F. Weld '66.
Jane Swift, Cellucci's running mate as the democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, also harking back to the theme of the Dukakis years.
These fears of returning to a Dukakis-like era of large state debt and fiscal irresponsibility, coupled with troubling indications of an economic stumble, forced voters to think twice about bucking the status quo.
"Education in my town has become so much better," said Jessica A. Burdick, a North Adams fourth-grade teacher. "In the Dukakis years, I had 29 kids in my class; now I have 19."
Massachusetts is in good health today because of skillful leadership under both William F. Weld '66 and Paul Cellucci. Cellucci is a fiscal conservative whose policies can maintain the progress made since Michael Dukakis's budget deficits. Cellucci has also demonstrated a willingness to reconsider important issues, which is evidenced...