Word: gop
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...FINANCING per se is the least of either candidate's problems. This year the GOP state committee has a $1.75 million budget, covering all state races. More than 100 prominent Republicans known as the "Circle Club" have also contributed $200,000 (in $1,000 amounts) in the last four years to help Lugar finance his political campaign...
...pedalling approach and slick skirting of issues should be unbeatable. Indiana Republican officials also believe the Ford pardon decision may work in Bayh's favor. They are afraid the decision could mean less interest in the Ford visit to Indianapolis next month--a visit deemed politically beneficial to the GOP two months...
...handles Ford's harsh line toward civil rights legislation with kid gloves. In last Friday's issue Norman Miller, after discussing Ford's views on race relations, pardoned Ford's attitudes as due mainly to "pragmatism." As House minority leader, writes Miller, Ford, by maneuvering his colleagues, "enabled the GOP to accumulate Dixiecrat IOUs that Mr. Ford could call in on other bills...
Thomas P. Salmon, 42, in 1973 became Vermont's second Democratic Governor in 119 years. He was helped by a divisive GOP primary and a shirtsleeve campaign against development: "Vermont is not for sale " A lawyer who was a judge at 30 and the youngest minority leader in the history of the state house of representatives at 35, Salmon has helped enact stringent laws to control land development and speculation. Rather than seek retiring Senator George Aiken's seat he is running for a second term, intending to complete the programs he has begun...
Cowin, who resigned last Thursday from the highest appointive-office in state government--secretary of administration and finance--becomes the first announced GOP candidate for the job of the state's chief law enforcement officer...