Word: governorship
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...start of his political career, he ran as a Democrat, albeit a conservative on fiscal issues. But in 1992, he switched parties and ran as a Republican for reelection to the governorship...
...curious mix of intellectual exhilaration and spacy West Coast image has dogged Brown ever since the bushy-browed onetime Jesuit seminarian first vaulted into the governorship in 1974. What most characterized his administration was incessant questioning of the status quo. Long nights were spent brainstorming about everything from cost-cutting to energy conservation -- and virtually no idea was considered too absurd to be dismissed out of hand. Recalls state controller Gray Davis, who was Brown's chief of staff: "Upon learning that Nevada had reneged on a tentative agreement to provide greater environmental control over Lake Tahoe, Jerry spent several...
...Exactly the opposite is true here, where Jorg Haider, an articulate young (43) David Duke look-alike, is smooth enough to be described as a "yuppie fascist." Last summer he declared that the Nazis "had a proper employment policy in the Third Reich," then had to resign his provincial governorship in the protest that ensued. But he has led his Austrian Freedom Party to a higher share of the vote in 13 straight provincial and national elections, and in November the party won a startling 23% of the ballots in staunchly Socialist Vienna. It just might poll enough...
...President Art A. Hall '93 said that the representatives from the Institute of Politics (IOP) had asked his organization to sponsor a possible speech by Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who last month lost in his bid for the Louisiana governorship...
Harvard students interviewed yesterday expressed relief that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke lost in his bid for the governorship of Louisiana Saturday...