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TIME'S Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers followed Brown one day last week as the Governor took his message to varied groups of voters. Boarding the chartered Learjet at Los Angeles, Brown first flipped through the morning papers, stopping at a story that reported unemployment statistics down. Jabbing his finger at the item, he said, "Government is flattening out. The private sector is pushing forward." Noting that corporate profits in California are double the national average, he said he expects the 1979 state surplus to be as large as this year's. So despite all the grim forebodings...
...estd?" Sitting in the reviewing stand, he showed a flash of anger when a reporter touched on one of those troubling matters of the gubernatorial style. He wanted to know if Brown had ever smoked marijuana. "I've answered that before," snapped the Governor, turning his head away. As the morning grew hotter, Brown doffed his jacket to give a brief speech in the 105° F. heat in Brawley, a town in the arid Imperial Valley. "Taxes are going down," he declared. "I didn't have much to do with Proposition 13. That was the other fella...
...what's happening?" barked Brown, as he strode in. "How about a beer for me? I've got money." Ten minutes later, Brown was gone. Winging back to Los Angeles (though the Governor remarked that he might prefer to head for the Santa Monica airport?presumably because it is closer to Malibu, home of his close companion, Singer Linda Ronstadt), Brown explained his attempt to blend liberal and conservative positions. "It's what I call mixing frugality with compassion. The people want fiscal responsibility and openness and experimental government. Anti-red lining, antismog regulations and farm labor laws?all these...
MASSACHUSETTS. In perhaps the most consistently liberal state in the nation, Edward J. King, a onetime guard for the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts, preached tax-cutting to unseat incumbent Governor Michael Dukakis in the Democratic primary. Dukakis and liberals around the country are still not sure exactly what hit him. "Incumbentitis," the mere fact of holding office in this surprising, restless year, was doubtless a factor. In addition, Dukakis, though far from a big-spending liberal, had raised taxes after promising in his 1974 campaign that he would not. King is clearly to the right of his Republican opponent...
CONNECTICUT. In a tight race for Governor, Democratic Incumbent Ella Grasso has discovered that a chief problem is her own rather earthy personality. An old-school politician who gives as well as she gets, Grasso called her primary opponent an s.o.b., among other things...