Word: furcolo
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...issue in the campaign, the Democrats say, is unemployment. The recession hit the state hard and Furcolo points out that his administration extended unemployment insurance benefits from 26 to 39 weeks and liberalized the vocational retraining program during the crisis. Furcolo mentions that his bill to float a $50 million bond issue to finance state projects and create jobs was killed by the Republican controlled Senate...
This battle between the Governor and the Senate is another issue which should help the Democrats. Last spring, Furcolo proposed withholding state income tax; this, he said, would cut down the large number of tax delinquents in the state and bring in the millions of dollars needed to balance the budget without putting any additional burden on the people. The Senate killed it on three separate occasions after it had passed the House...
Besides these issues, Furcolo has other advantages working for him. Of Italian and Irish extraction, the Yale-educated ('33) Governor with a large family has a common-man appeal which Gibbons has not had time to build up. He amassed the largest vote ever given to a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the last primary and defeated a popular Lieutenant Governor in a year in which Eisenhower was sweeping the state. Gibbons is running hard and has made gains--notably in the western part of the state--but at this stage of the game it doesn't look...
...gubernatorial contest pits incumbent Foster Furcolo against Charles Gibbons, who became the party's rush nominee when Attorney-General Fingold suffered a fatal heart attack ten days before the primary. Gibbons, backed by thousands of dollars from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, is harping on the heavy state expenses in the last two years, and on the excessive state debt. The Republicans, however, are neglecting one point: most of the debt was incurred in the last two GOP administrations...
...majority leader under former Governor Herter, Gibbons supported the expansion of the state debt by over $600 million--70 per cent of the current total--so that the blame cannot rest entirely on Furcolo's shoulders. Furthermore, Gibbons has shown reactionary tendencies in his voting record in the state General Court. He opposed the establishment of a state Fair Employment Practices Commission and voted against raising the minimum wage on four separate occasions...