Word: ex-governor
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...gubernatorial race offers the voters of Massachusetts an uninspiring choice. The Republican Party passed over an attractive and fiercely dedicated Attorney General in order to give another chance to an ex-Governor with little legislative imagination. Not to be outdone, the Democrats, by an internal logic inscrutable even to its friends, repudiated an honest and progressive, if uninspiring, Governor in favor of an opportunistic political neophyte. With such a choice, why choose? Why not, with justifiable pique, write in either Peabody or Brooke...
However, the ex-Governor does have problems, at least thirteen of them: Bellotti's 12 children and Goldwater. The "virility issue," as Volpe's aides call it, cannot be met rationally. Everyone in Massachusetts knows about, and feels either sympathy or admiration for, the fatherly ambitions of the Democratic nominee. The issue is one of the great imponderables of the campaign...
...been placed on Volpe's decisions to back the national ticket. Some observers have noted that some Republican fund raisers in the state, most prominently Lloyd Waring, support Goldwater wholeheartedly. However, Volpe's stand has probably hurt him financially by alienating some very wealthy liberal Republicans. This week the ex-Governor used these words to ask a Lawrence factory owner for funds: "This Goldwater thing has emptied the coffers. We need your help...
Bellotti has concentrated on the Goldwater issue, calling Volpe "a party to the coalition of reaction." To illustrate the ex-Governor's "inhumanity," the Democratic nominee tells audiences that Volpe refused in 1962 to implment fully the Federal Manpower Retraining Act. The charge, claims Volpe, is groundless since the Act was then just beginning to oper ate: "Bellotti deals in glittering generalities about Goldwater. Just glittering generalities...
Ironically the charge of "glittering generalities" has usually been used by Volpe's opponents. For years he has suffered a reputation for blandness. This image results primarily from newspaper accounts of his speeches and press conferences. The ex-Governor is addicted to the cliche; if separated from the staccato directness of his voice and the energetic briskness of his gestures, his words seem hopelessly commonplace. Wednesday he began an address to the student body of Westport Academy by celebrating "all these bright shining faces of young people wanting to learn how to be good, solid citizens." He continued the string...