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...Republicans thought that Anderson had blundered fatally. That they were wrong is an excellent example of the sophistication of the Minnesota voters. They were willing to elect a man who promised to raise some of their taxes in return for larger overall gains. When he took office, Anderson proposed a $762 million boost in state taxes?roughly a 30% increase in the biennial budget. Eventually, he got through a $588 million compromise package, with substantial increases in the taxes on liquor and cigarettes, and in corporate and personal income taxes, along with a 1¢ rise in the sales tax. With...
There is the fact that the President spent taxpayers' money to pay Bob Haldeman when Haldeman was not working for the government, but was, in fact, working only for the campaign to re-elect the President...
Most of the $220,000, Kalmbach told the committee, was provided by Nixon re-election officials from various campaign contributions: $75,000 came from Maurice H. Stans, the former Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President; and $70,000 came from Frederick C. LaRue, an aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and formerly an official at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Another $75,000 Kalmbach got directly from Thomas V. Jones, president and board chairman of the Northrop Corp., a Los Angeles-based aerospace company. (Jones claimed that...
...with barely excessive hyperbole, though, that ex-Prime Minister Brian Faulkner has called this week's election "the most crucial in Northern Ireland's history." When voters go to the polls to elect a new legislative body for Ulster, it will clearly be their best, if not their last chance to curb 50 years of trial and terror and finally set the province on the road to rule by reason...
...enough that at the moment the commonwealth has a Republican Governor, an Independent Lieutenant Governor, and a Democratic attorney general. But consider that when voters go to the polls this November, they will elect as Governor one of two well-known, longtime Democrats-neither of whom is running as a Democrat. Two weeks ago one was given the Republican nomination and the other elected to run as an Independent. Byrd's once invincible Democratic Party gave up and will field no candidate for the office...