Word: governorships
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...showed an early flair for politics. In 1966, just out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, he borrowed $600, bought a 1959 Ford and campaigned successfully for a state-assembly seat. He was just 24. Following a failed 1979 congressional bid, he went on to win the governorship in 1986 and was easily re-elected last November...
Will Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu become a gulf-war casualty? That possibility was raised last week after Kaifu's ruling Liberal Democratic Party was badly jolted by the 2-to-1 defeat of its candidate for the governorship of Tokyo. The humiliating upset prompted the resignation of the party's chief political operative, Ichiro Ozawa, who took responsibility for the loss. Ruling party insiders say that Ozawa had agreed to try to prevent re-election of the L.D.P.'s incumbent governor as part of a deal with the opposition, in exchange for passage of Japan's additional $9 billion gulf...
Richard Celeste has worked to improve the lot of battered women for much of his public career -- even turning his former home into a shelter for them. Last week, in a dramatic final act before relinquishing the Ohio governorship, he granted clemency to 25 abused women convicted of killing or assaulting their mates. The move, the first such mass commutation in the nation, was hailed by women's rights groups as a major victory in the fight to treat violence-prone battered women as victims, not criminals. But many prosecutors charged that the action would encourage more abused women...
...Dallas, San Antonio and Corpus Christi. This year Ann Richards, who became the first woman to hold statewide office in Texas in a half-century when she was elected state treasurer in 1982, hoped for the same voter response in her knock-down, drag-out battle for the governorship...
Democrat David Walters grabbed the open Republican governorship in Oklahoma. Bruce Sundlun wrested the governorship from Republicans in hard-times Rhode Island, outing Edward DiPrete. Former Gov. Bruce King's successful comeback returned New Mexico to the Democratic column, and Joan Finney outsted GOP Gov. nike Hayden in Kansas...