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With all the space you've given to Massachusetts politics, you might have mentioned that we did elect Ed Brooke attorney general. This Negro Republican is a man to keep your eye on. He just might wind up being the first Negro governor anywhere...
...know at least one comforting fact about our new Governor-elect, "Chub" Peabody. He can certainly play football...
...poorly in the cities-of 41 U.S. cities with a population of 300,000 or more, Nixon won a majority in only 14. The Bliss report put much of the blame on lackadaisical party organizations, urged a buildup of permanent local organizations with fulltime, paid staffs. In the 1962 elections, Republicans did much better in the cities. Pennsylvania's Governor-elect William Scranton got 43% of the votes in Philadelphia as against Nixon's 32% in 1960, and Michigan's Governor-elect George Romney won 33% in Detroit as against Nixon's 29%. In Bliss...
Bliss is an obvious possibility to succeed Miller as national chairman some day. "I have not been interested in being national chairman up to now," says Bliss. "I reserve the right to change my mind." In the meantime, his job, he says, is "electing Republicans in Ohio." He has done so well at it that there are few major political offices in Ohio still held by Democrats, but the 1962 returns were barely counted before Bliss was back in his red leather chair making plans to elect even more Republicans...
Finally, the Governor-elect has called for a substantial reorganization of existing State agencies in order to eliminate overlapping functions, and make all department heads responsible to the governor. This proposal, successfully implemented, will eliminate the source of much of the notorious corruption in Massachusetts...