Word: gov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town, Rappaport latched onto a strategy strikingly similar to the one John R. Silber had just employed to grab the Democratic nomination for governor. Instead of sparring with Kerry on the battelfield of national issues, he would equate his opponent with "tax and spend" state liberals like Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...property taxes local governments could levy. Since that time, Massachusetts cities and towns have had to rely on a steady flow of of state aid to finance the most basic municipal services--including schools, hospitals, police and fire protection. Two summers ago, in a sweeping series of budget cuts, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis made it abundantly clear that local officials can no longer count on that...
According to finance committee vice chair DavidA. Aronberg '93, other council members oftenperceive finance delegates as "man-eating,power-hungry gov-jocks who are pretty conservativeand pretty ruthless...
Zaleskas goes on to ridicule Harmon and the club for "deciding not to endorse" Silber. She asks if "Massachusetts voters are not intellectual enough for the Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats" and cites Democratic National Committee Chair Ron Brown's and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's endorsements as evidence that the club had not good reason not to endorse the candidate...
...Kennedy School last Friday, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder (who is Black) delivered a remarkable address about the need for fiscal responsibility. The specific topic of Wilder's address is less important than the underlying challenge he poses to Farrakhan and Jackson. Perhaps he will one day restore to Black leadership a sense of realism and purposefulness...