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OHIO. Silver-haired and flannel-tongued Republican James Rhodes, 69, who has already served an unprecedented twelve years as Ohio's Governor, has gained considerable favor with voters by driving his own car to work, jawboning his way through all of Ohio's 88 counties and living in his own home (he says he would like to sell the Governor's mansion...
With polls showing that education is the chief concern of most voters, the issue has been seized on by Democratic Nominee Richard Celeste, 40, a Rhodes scholar and father of six who has been Lieutenant Governor since 1974. Celeste favors cutting property taxes and making up the school budget gaps from corporate and personal income taxes. He has carefully refused to provide any estimates of what his proposal would cost and avoids mentioning that it would probably require an income tax increase. Claims Rhodes: "He doesn't have any education program...
WISCONSIN. Fifteen months ago, when Governor Patrick Lucey was named Ambassador to Mexico, he bequeathed to his successor, Democrat Martin Schreiber, a healthy state economy and a budget surplus projected to total $500 million by next June. To soak up the spare cash, Schreiber, a colorless career politician, proposed cutting property taxes by a modest $110 million and increasing state spending on water purification, schools and debt reduction. But Schreiber, 39, has run afoul of Proposition 13 fever, which has been skillfully exploited by his Republican opponent, Lee Sherman Dreyfus...
...more than a generation, Strom Thurmond has been a legend in South Carolina. As Governor in 1948, he indignantly walked out of the Democratic National Convention to protest the civil rights plank in the party platform and ran for President as a Dixiecrat. In the Senate he became the foremost filibusterer against civil rights legislation, declaring that there would never be enough laws on the books or troops in the Army to force the South to integrate. In 1964 he bolted the Democrats for good, joined the Republican Party, and later was part of Richard Nixon's Southern strategy...
...distinguished South Carolina family-Ravenel won scholarships to Exeter and Harvard (where he was quarterback of the football team). Then after seven successful years as a Wall Street investment banker, he returned in 1972 to his home state, started an investment firm and prepared to run for Governor. His seemingly sure election in 1974 was snatched out of his hands: he had won the Democratic nomination but the state supreme court ruled him off the ballot for not meeting South Carolina's five-year residency requirement for gubernatorial candidates. Ravenel thereupon antagonized many party regulars by refusing to support...