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DIED. Hugh Gallen, 58, plainspeaking, two-time Democratic Governor of traditionally Republican New Hampshire, who upset Incumbent Meldrim Thomson in 1978 on his promise (later honored) to eliminate a surcharge from electric bills and hold the line on taxes; of liver and kidney failure, a week before he was to leave office; in Boston. A self-made owner of a car dealership, Gallen in his third gubernatorial campaign refused to take "the pledge" against a state income or sales tax because of looming budget problems, rightly suspecting that his stance might cost him reelection...
...Meldrim Thomson, a former Governor of New Hampshire, was in the odd position of having to run against himself in the race for the statehouse. The political reversal began during the primary, when two of the nine candidates refused to take "the pledge," a campaign promise customarily made by New Hampshire gubernatorial candidates to veto sales or broad-based income taxes. Determined to protect the state's tradition, Republican Thomson came out of political retirement and filed as an independent. But the Republican nominee turned out to be John Sununu, a conservative ally. Fearing his candidacy could drain enough...
...Maryland 10 Edward Conroy Charies McC. Mathias Massachusetts 14 Michigan 21 Minnesota 10 Mississippi 7 Missouri 12 Thomas Eagleton Gene McNary Joseph P. Teasdale Christopher Bond Montana 4 Ted Schwinden Jack Ramirez Nebraska 5 Nevada 3 Mary Gojack Paul Laxalt New Hampshire 4 John Durkin Warren Rudman Hugh Gallen Meldrim Thomson New Jersey 17 New Mexico 4 New York 41 Elizabeth Holtzman Alfonse D'Amato* North Carolina 13 Robert Morgan John East James Hunt Jr. Beverly Lake Jr. North Dakota 3 Kent Johanneson Mark Andrews Arthur Link Allen Olson Ohio 25 John Glenn James Betts Oklahoma 8 Andy Coats...
Since the mid-'60s, the society's has been a prosaic; if mildly prosperous, existence. With little turnover in membership, about 200 people constantly work in Belmont, the western headquarters in San Marino, Calif., and in the field. A council whose members include former New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thompson and Bunker Hunt, of the Texas oil family, raised and administer an 58 million budget that has not changed in about five years. The latest major project is something called TRIM, Tax Reform Immediately, an organization of local pamphleteers who rate their congressman by his stands on raising taxes. Far from...
...WHICH is not to say that Larouche is going to get many votes at the end of the month--the people here are more sophisticated than that. But campaigns (and voters) are often defined by their fringes, and many seem to wish that Larouche, or former New Hampshire governor Meldrim Thompson (running on the Constitution Party ticket) were truly in the race. "I wish Bill Loeb (the publisher of the Union-Leader, a fanatical conservative) would run," one old man declares. "I'd vote for him--he's an honest man." The bedrock conservatism of the Granite State...