Word: lesinski
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Third, while Romney was preparing to submit a new U.S. congressional district reapportionment plan that would keep intact the present split of eleven Republicans and eight Democrats, his Democratic Lieut. Governor T. John Lesinski sandbagged him. Lesinski came up with a plan of his own-which would probably give Democrats at least one additional seat in Congress-and slipped the scheme through the state senate with the cooperation of ten conservative Republicans who had fallen out with Romney. This, complained Senate Majority Leader Stanley Thayer, a Romney loyalist, was a "secret diabolical move." Fuming with anger, Romney accused the dissident...
...quest for bipartisanship, the Governor bears a heavy burden in the Falstaffian form of his Lieutenant Governor, T. (for Thaddeus) John Le-sinski, a 300-lb. Democrat who loves to ridicule Romney. Last week Romney returned from a two-week vacation in Hawaii to discover that Lesinski, as acting Governor, had just issued a devastating takeoff on Romney in his own "Report to the People...
...These 14 days," Lesinski boasted, "have seen more done to get Michigan ready for the future than any other 14 days in memory. During this time, the legislature has produced more legislation than any other fortnight in the state's history. The house passed 35 bills and the senate passed 33 bills. We have moved forward in all areas where we have stagnated for years...
...conservative Republicans and even less with Democrats. In one dramatic confrontation with about 40 House and Senate Democrats in his office, Romney declared: "I'm prepared to discuss with you any changes that you think will make the bill acceptable to you." Replied Democratic Lieutenant Governor T. John Lesinski: "We will not write your program. It is the responsibility of the executive to provide leadership. We stand ready to assist." Snapped Romney: "I'm not asking Democrats to write my program. I've got a program. What we're talking about is votes...
...Romney implying that Michigan's Democratic Party is presently infiltrated by Communists? Romney hedged: "It's difficult to say . . ." Appalled. Democrats, holding their own convention in Grand Rapids, made the most of Romney's outburst. Incumbent Governor John Swainson found it "incredible." Lieutenant Governor T. John Lesinski pronounced himself "shocked and appalled." The convention roared through a resolution labeling Romney a "political slanderer." There was no recourse but for beleaguered George Romney to issue a "clarification." He had never said that "there are Communists at the present time inside the Democratic Party." He did "not believe that...