Word: duryea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the most prominent over-promisers went down to resounding defeat. In the New Jersey Senate race, Jeff Bell, perhaps the most avid proponent of Kemp-Roth, was beaten by former Basketball Star Bill Bradley, who proposed more modest tax cuts. Perry Duryea, the G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, promised to increase welfare grants and reduce taxes at the same time. The victorious incumbent, Hugh Carey, refrained from any such foolishness. In Arkansas, Bill Clinton, 32, was elected the nation's youngest Governor, even though he vowed to ask for a tax increase if a referendum reducing...
...York's incumbent Governor Hugh Carey, 59, with a scandal-free and creditable record as the state's chief executive, trailed his silver-haired Republican opponent, Perry Duryea, 57, until the final weeks of the campaign. Duryea then refused to disclose fully his personal finances and to make public his tax returns. While no improprieties were charged, Carey hit hard on the issue and found the electorate in no mood to tolerate secrecy in such matters...
Even though Carey was perceived by many voters as remote and cranky, he piled up a quarter-million vote plurality over Duryea. After the results were in, Carey vowed to do something about his personality problem: "I announce that I will not be aloof, alone, remote, inaccessible and grouchy, or any of those things. Tonight I shall embark on a new campaign." He quickly left for a vacation in the Bahamas with Anne Ford Uzielli, the 35-year-old daughter of Henry Ford II, amid speculation the two would marry...
...Duryea: "Yeah, maybe I'll be able to nail your brother...
Money is, however, and the man who has so much of it--Duryea--appears likely to come out on top tomorrow. Carey, who in four years has managed to help rescue New York City from bankruptcy, cut state taxes and eliminate the state's budget deficit, boasts a personality and political presence tolerated only by party insiders and religious martyrs, both of whom are used to suffering. Meanwhile, Duryea, one of the legislature's most deceptively conservative spokesmen, looks like a good bet: he leads most recent polls by about 2 per cent overall, but by 6 per cent among...