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WISCONSIN. Fifteen months ago, when Governor Patrick Lucey was named Ambassador to Mexico, he bequeathed to his successor, Democrat Martin Schreiber, a healthy state economy and a budget surplus projected to total $500 million by next June. To soak up the spare cash, Schreiber, a colorless career politician, proposed cutting property taxes by a modest $110 million and increasing state spending on water purification, schools and debt reduction. But Schreiber, 39, has run afoul of Proposition 13 fever, which has been skillfully exploited by his Republican opponent, Lee Sherman Dreyfus...
...rural mural program has brought praise from all sides. Kenneth Ray, assistant art professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, likens the paintings to "an outdoor museum." Governor Patrick Lucey sees the inspiration for "other projects that blend art with life." The kids are delighted, of course. "My folks were real proud of me," says Nick Folley, 16, who worked on the blue cow. With no mural to paint, "I would have sat around and done nothing, I suppose," he says. Meanwhile, Rouby has been getting inquiries from all over the country on how to start up similar ventures...
Though such incidents make Washington wives wary of saying anything, some rebel. Jean Lucey, wife of the Wisconsin Governor, told a demonstrating group of welfare mothers to get off their behinds and get jobs. The wife of one Southern Senator is joining the board of a black college to show her independence. And Betty Ford of the unpredictable opinion, is becoming quite a heroine to feminists...
...much more than the faded clippings in their scrapbooks. In almost every city and hamlet, Americans can see that the politicians who went to Washington now talk and act like men in a different nation from their fellow politicians who stayed back home. They see that their Governors-Lucey, Brown, Ray, Longley, Dukakis, Walker, Thomson, Evans-are true executives and make real decisions. Senators talk and shake hands...
Wisconsin, Patrick Lucey...