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...impending change of leadership in the State House will heavily influence the next two months for the legislators, Gov. Edward J. King, forced into retirement by his loss in the September primary, will be looking to leave his mark in the final weeks in office, and is apparently rushing to get some pet projects accepted before the more liberal Gov.-elect Michael S. Dukakis comes into power...
...also significant to note that Gov. Edward J. King, who openly embraced supply side economics and who was known as Ronald Reagan's favorite Democratic governor, lost in the September Democratic primary by a mere six percentage points. Indeed, polls indicated that it was his brush with corruption, not conservative economics, that provided the margin of defeat. At the same time, John W. Sears '52, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, stayed noticeably silent on the Reagan program, but was buried in the general election by 20 percentage points...
RUNNING FOR the Republican presidential nomination early in 1968. Michigan Gov. George Romney did himself in when he admitted he had been "brainwashed" into supporting the Vietnam War. Seeking the Democratic nod for the Oval Office four years later, Maine Sen Edmond S. Muskie permanently crippled his front-running campaign when he publicly wept in response to spurious charges about his wife leveled by the tasteless Manchester Union Leader...
...LEWIS LEHRMAN somehow were elected to succeed New York Gov. Hugh Carey, the Democratic pols were laughing this summer. New York would be the only state to have had governors Hughie, Dewey, and Lewie. But those same Democratic pols were the ones laughing this summer at the thought that anyone could beat New York Mayor Edward I. Koch in a Democratic gubernatorial primary. They're not laughing anymore...
...romp, reportedly spending more than $6 million of his own money for that initial race alone. By becoming a fixture on daily and night time television, Lehrman has catapulted himself through sheer dollars into a leading spokesman for conservative, indeed libertarian, government. Or, as his Democratic opponent Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo put it, "a more Radical version of Reaganomics...