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Supporters are trying to collect signatures from 2500 registered voters by tomorrow to guarantee the Republican presidential candidate's name will be included on the GOP ballot...
...veto it five months later? Presidential ambition. Savvy politicos noted that as soon as Wilson won the close-fought gubernatorial campaign a year ago, he began setting his sights on a 1996 bid. But when the bill outlawing job discrimination against gays landed on Wilson's desk, top GOP strategists warned him that he would lose conservative support if he signed it. Maybe they were right. But because of his performance on this and other issues, recent polls show that Wilson's voter-approval ratings are the lowest of any California Governor in 25 years. By this time next year...
Republican Kirk Fordice held a slim, steady lead over Gov. Ray Mabus in Mississippi, in a surprisingly strong bid to become the state's first GOP governor in more than a century...
Waterbury, Conn., had a mayoral race with the twist. Former Democratic Mayor Edward D. Bergin, acquitted in April on state bribery charges, ousted three-term GOP Mayor Joseph J. Santopietro, who faces 21 criminal charges...
Republican spokesperson Gary Koops expressed disappointment with Pennsylvania but satisfaction in New Jersey, where voters gave the GOP control of both houses of the legislature. "Pennsylvania is gone, but we're real happy with what we're seeing in the legislative and local races...