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...Dallas and south Texas. In New Jersey last week federal judges declared the plan approved by the Democratic state legislature unconstitutional and demanded a new plan by March 22. The discarded maps, which had been signed into law last January by Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne just hours before Thomas Kean, a Republican, was sworn in as his successor, had been challenged in court by the state's seven Republican Congressmen, who argued that the plan was drawn mainly to help elect Democrats. "Hurray!" said Kean, with a partisan cheer after hearing of the court's decision. "That good...
...United States Conference of Mayors warned that the 1983 budget would "seriously undermine the economic and social health of cities." The criticism from Governors was also widespread, but it was sharpest in the Northeast, where populous states already face severe budget problems. New Jersey's Republican Governor Thomas Kean, in office barely a month, charged that Reagan's budget "will have a severe human impact." Anticipating a $130 million state deficit even if there were no new Reagan slashes, Kean said New Jersey cannot replace funds taken away by Washington. An aide to Pennsylvania's Republican Governor...
...America, land of the permanent campaign, every congressional vote, every opinion poll, certainly every off-year election somehow becomes a referendum on the President and his programs. So Ronald Reagan campaigned dutifully last month for Republican gubernatorial Candidates Marshall Coleman in Virginia and Thomas Kean in New Jersey. Both party hopefuls returned the embrace. As Kean said during the campaign: "We have got to do in New Jersey what President Reagan has been doing in Washington." But there was scant evidence that voters in either state saw their contests as a sort of large-scale Gallup sampling. The races were...
...suggest that if they were meant as a down-home test of Reagan's popularity, the nation is a house divided. As soon as the quirky results were in, a thudding defeat for Coleman by Democrat Charles Robb in normally Republican Virginia, and an apparent narrow victory for Kean over Democrat James Florio in normally Democratic New Jersey, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes proclaimed the elections were emphatically not "a referendum on the President himself or the President's economic policies...
With 4,664 of the state's 5,467 precincts reporting, Kean had 936,964 to 926,382 for Florie...