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Backers mounted their biggest push in North Carolina, where they had the political support of Governor James Hunt. They also enlisted lobbying help from Hunt's wife Carolyn, and two celebrities, Actor Alan Alda and Columnist Erma Bombeck (If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries−What Am I Doing in the Pits?). President Carter pitched in by calling State Senator R.C. Soles Jr. But Soles had already heard from his own constituents, and told Carter he could not back...
Illinois supporters of the amendment had been beaten nine times since 1972. Last week they tried to lower the proportion of votes in the state senate needed for ratification from three-fifths to a simple majority. The strategy was backed by G.O.P. Governor James Thompson, but only three Republicans in the Democratic-controlled senate went along with him, and the proposal lost, 31 to 24. Accused by ERA supporters of political impotence, Thompson retorted: "I put in my two cents' worth, and my two cents was not enough. Neither was anyone else...
...Since Governor King and the Cambridge city manager want to put caps on spending, I think Harvard ought to put some caps on their actions as well," Vellucci said...
...governor is rendered helpless, paralysed by the chairman of his own committee," State Sen. David H Locke, said yesterday...
...governor's proposal takes away our town meeting," another Fair Share representative noted, "and that is an extremely radical concept that we shook off 200 years ago with the other King...