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California's initiative follows the lead set by Michigan last October, when Republican Governor John Engler threw 90,000 "able-bodied" adults off the welfare rolls in an effort to close a projected $1 billion budget gap. But Engler's "solution" has produced more chaos than cure. Michigan's unemployment rate is greater than 9%, and even highly qualified workers are finding it hard to get a job. In the wake of Engler's edict, thousands of welfare recipients have lost their apartments; seven people who were disqualified from receiving welfare have died from exposure this winter...
...John Engler led Democratic Gov. James Blanchard in a Michigan surprise...
...Blanchard faced complaints of age and sex discrimination in his treatment of Griffiths, his major Republican opponent, state senate majority leader John Engler, seized the opening to announce that his running mate will be Connie Binsfeld, 66, a bland state senator and antiabortion activist. Blanchard countered by selecting Olivia Maynard, 54, who has been popular with senior citizens as director of the state office of services to the aging, to replace Griffiths. Ever loyal to her party, Griffiths said she will support / Blanchard's re-election. And, presumably, she will continue to inquire about his health...
CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL. It may be a long, hot summer for Governor Jim Blanchard of Michigan. Although the Democrat is locked in a tight race against Republican John Engler, the greatest damage to his campaign is expected to come from his ex-wife. Paula Blanchard has penned 'Til Politics Do Us Part, an account of the breakup of their 21-year marriage that the publisher says will < be "painfully honest." The book, which will be excerpted in the state's largest newspaper, deals with Jim Blanchard's rumored affair with former staff member Janet Fox, whom he married last year. Opponent...
...Gary Engler of San Francisco State University is Ampersand's Pizza Division winner with "RCA announced today the release of Elvis--the Pizza Sessions; previously unreleased material of Elvis talking, toking and singing while eating pizza. This limited edition 3-album set will include a special collector's poster of Elvis' stomach from 1956-1976. (List $49.95 /Extra Cheese $54.95)." Pizza Division winner Engler will be receiving a Greatest Hits album, just as soon as Truth Consultant falls by the Elvis section of a handy record store...