Word: governors
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...bribery and conspiracy. Former California Democratic Representative Richard Hanna, who allegedly received $200,000, has already pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Other former Democratic Congressmen on the list include New Jersey's Cornelius Gallagher, who supposedly accepted about $40,000, and Louisiana's Edwin Edwards, now Governor, who has admitted to receiving $20,000. Other payments made by Park were smaller and often described as "campaign donations," like the $4,650 to House Majority Whip John Brademas and the $300 given to Mo Udall of Arizona...
Heading the President's K.B.L. (New Society Movement) ticket is Superwife Imelda, 48, who has served as the flamboyant, can-do governor of metropolitan Manila since 1975. The leader of the opposition party, Strength of the Nation (known as Laban, for its constant battle cry), is Marcos' bitterest political rival, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., a former Liberal...
...long-is standing love affair with the law is in danger of turning obsessive and destructive ?if it has not already done so. Writing in the California State Bar Journal, J. Anthony Kline, a Yale-trained lawyer who serves as legal affairs secretary to California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., offers this catalogue: "The trial courts are in disarray, mechanisms for the prompt resolution of minor disputes do not exist or are inadequate, the adversary process is in disrepute, the criminal justice system is maligned, legal procedures are in many cases hopelessly arcane and unnecessarily complex, and legal services...
...state into bankruptcy too. Now the state expects a surplus of $360 million this year and is debating how much to cut taxes. Michigan last November projected a deficit of $78.4 million in its 1978 fiscal year, ending Sept. 30. Now it expects a $68.4 million surplus, and Governor William Milliken is proposing reductions in property and income taxes. Budget Director Gerald Miller agreed with a reporter that the estimate of a deficit was "a ploy." He remarked candidly that there are times "when it is appropriate to indicate the situation is not as good as it might...
...cuts in income taxes alone totaling $625 million annually in eleven states, including New York, Michigan and Minnesota. Property taxes are another favorite target, since they have provoked citizen revolts in many areas. California wound up last year with a $2.9 billion budget surplus, largely because, in line with Governor Jerry Brown's celebrated small-is-good philosophy, the state severely held down spending. Now flush California is planning to cut citizens' property taxes by $1.4 billion...