Word: governors
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...endorsement but certainly the blessing of the most popular figure in the state, Howard Jarvis, author of Proposition 13. Jarvis originally appeared in a TV ad praising Younger for successfully opposing the legal challenge to Proposition 13. But then the tax cutter decided to help out the Governor as well. He cut a tape praising Brown: "Sure, I wrote Proposition 13, but it takes a dedicated Governor to make it work...
...level of the project, Huntsville grew out of Redstone Arsenal Army base--a major Army installation. The government took over the growth of the city and its surrounding vicinity. As a result, school desegregation met with few problems; integrated neighborhoods have always been common in both Huntsville and Decatur. Governor George C. Wallace stopped carrying North Alabama...
...which presents the Brooklyn-born governor with the most damnable of ironies. New York, after all, is a state where geography has traditionally held the key on election day, and up until a few months ago it looked as though Carey had done his map-work well. It's all very simply arithmetic: the Republicans can usually count on the northern half of the state, Democrats can usually count on the southern half, and the winner winds up as the party that manages to sneak enough votes out of enemy territory. Last May, his home base presumably secured...
...federal aid to the city, lowering the state income tax and eliminating a billion-dollar budget deficit--Carey projects coldness, aloofness, insensitivity. Aside from occasional forays back to the wilds of forgotten Brooklyn, where he doesn't mind stumping amidst a sea of pug noses and red hair, the governor hasn't been able to charm all those blue-collar and ethnic voters who grew up voting Democratic but wouldn't mind breaking the habit. Given the chance to vote for Duryea--a moderate conservative, almost a city dweller, a man who says he understands the city and its needs...
Absurd or not, Perry Duryea still has a very real 'chance of sending Carey back to Brooklyn for good next month. There is, of course, always the chance that the governor could charge back--if, for instance, the city's newspapers return soon enough to allow Carey the extra publicity that always attends the incumbent, or if city voters abruptly decide to vote for one of the candidates instead of simply against one. But right now Duryea still keeps a firm grip on his 5-per-cent lead in the polls, and the governor still spends most of his time...