Word: governors
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Meanwhile, state politicians are bracing themselves for a pitched battle with the governor over whether he has the constitutional right to freeze local funding over their objections...
Maloney said that the the governor's direct veto would cost Cambridge $1.57 million in state funding and that the entire package of budget costs would amount to $3.3 million less for the city...
...despite the override vote and heavy public criticism, Dukakis continues to hold his ground and refuses to free the $100 million. The governor said he made the cuts "under the authority given to me by the Legislature. I can't distribute those funds unless they're there and they're not going to be there," he said...
Massachusetts representatives voted 114-34 yesterday for changes to the health care law, but the proposals may never get as far as the governor's desk because the Senate has consistently supported the landmark package...
...came to Mexico last week -- sort of. In the booming border state of Baja California Norte, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, the candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), was declared the victor over Margarita Ortega Villa, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in the race for governor. Once officially confirmed this week, Ruffo's victory will mark the first time in the 60-year history of the P.R.I. that the party has conceded defeat in such an election. "It is a decisive event," says political analyst Jorge Castaneda, "the first that will have an authentic historic significance...