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...SELF-DESTRUCTION OF REPUBLICANS seeking the office of governor might have been tragic, if it weren't so funny--and if the incumbent Democratic governor weren't such a star. After embarrassing revelations that Greg Hyatt was seen nude in his office on several occasions and that Royall Switzer had falsified his war record, the Grand Old Party had trouble finding a good old candidate. Eventually, George Kariotis volunteered, but it doesn't make much difference, considering the phenomenal success run up by Governor Michael S. Dukakis in his second four-year term...
However, he chose a trump card to play in last night's reply to the charges. He answered that "Anybody who thinks people like Greg Hyatt and [Wellesley State Rep.] Royall Switzler ought to be in his cabinet is really..." and was drowned out by laughter and applause...
...third Republican nominee to oppose Dukakis this year, Kariotis had offered cabinet positions to his predecessors. Hyatt left the gubernatorial race after allegations emerged of fraud on his election papers and bizarre personal conduct. Switzler bowed out soon after, when he was found to have falsified his Vietnam War record. Both appeared on the ballot in the primary, while Kariotis waged an unsuccessful write-in campaign, gaining the nomination by default...
...candidate, Gregory S. Hyatt, has fallen to twin charges of inappropriate personal behavior and forged signatures on campaign forms. Another, State Rep. Royall Switzler (R-Wellesley), was felled by a phony war record...
This candidate still has trouble being recognized as the Republican choice. He lost his last-minute sticker campaign in the primary to Hyatt, who remained on the ballot, then withdrew after the results were announced...