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With a record number turning out, voters gave incumbent Kennedy and Governor Foster Furcolo mammoth pluralities. At the same time, they elected a Democratic State Senate for the first time in the history of the Commonwealth...
Both Kennedy and Furcolo jumped off to immediate leads, and never were in danger, as the avalanche of Democratic votes poured in. With 1,422 of 1,970 precincts reporting, the count stood...
Listed as a "famous professor of Government" and "Cambridge resident," Bundy called Governor Furcolo "not a wicked man. He is something more dangerous than that. He is a bad Governor." The advertisement does not mention Bundy's position in the University...
...Governor, Furcolo has spent more than any other executive in state history. Inflation is one cause of this record and debt retirement has proved very expensive. Massachusetts has the largest per capita state debt in the nation, despite the existence of a high state income tax, extra excise taxes and local property levies that pass $90 per $1,000 valuation in Boston. (However, it should be pointed out that part of Furcolo's expenditure has gone to provide additional housing for the elderly, to establish nine state junior colleges, and to reconstruct the inadequate state road system...
Another debit is Furcolo's ineffectiveness as a party leader, shown by his inept attempt to institute a state sales tax. Also, corruption in the Department of Public Works has not been corrected. Furcolo is keeping out needed industry with his high tax policies and his insistence on a withholding tax; he foresees only an expansion of state expenditures in the future. It seems that neither Furcolo nor Gibbons has the potential to deal with the Massachusetts crisis...