Word: ex-governor
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...reading your article "McKelvie v. Lowden" I wondered whether there was any significance behind that title. . . . . A few months ago one of the leading bank presidents of the country, at a conference of influential men of the Great Central West, I am informed, introduced ex-governor McKelvie [of Nebraska] as the next president. Doesn't it seem reasonable to surmise from these circumstances that have arisen during the past few months - McKelvie's conference with the President at Washington; the first overnight guest of the President at his summer home; the recipient of the only visit made by the President...
Life is so simple when you are at the back of the pack. No one picks on you, and no one picks up on your gaffes. When the Democratic presidential race started to take shape a year ago, few bothered to attack the quirky doctor who was an ex-Governor of a small New England state. He barked and blustered, but the Democratic establishment and the media saw in him little more than entertainment value. He stood on the wrong side of a popular President's war and outside the party establishment, within which the winner would be anointed...
...particular chasing young, mobile Evangelicals with a message aimed straight at their hearts. "It's the heavy, heavy red-meat stuff," says a top Republican activist. On the Democratic side, Dean's rise to the top of the heap is not so much the raising up of an obscure ex-Governor from a tiny state as it is evidence that a candidate can ride the tidal wave of Democratic indignation. The Democratic base still burns with resentment at what they saw as Bush's theft of the 2000 election. With his barely concealed anger and his transparent disdain for Bush...
DIED. LUIS FERRE, 99, ex-Governor of Puerto Rico who championed statehood; in San Juan. A powerful political and cultural force for half a century, he helped produce Puerto Rico's 1952 constitution and founded the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, arguing until he died that without statehood the island would be forever hampered by "colonial" status...
...most watched and feared candidate of the moment may be rewriting that plot. It is true that Dr. Howard Dean, the testy ex-Governor of a speck of a state, fits the profile of the doomed insurgent, the Eugene McCarthys and John McCains who have come before. He is not only running outside the Establishment; he is attacking it at every opportunity. But at a time when money talks louder than it ever has in politics, he is raising cash in unprecedented ways and in impressive amounts for a Democrat at this early stage. In a large field of candidates...