Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been lodged with the FBI last July by an undisclosed informer. It had hung unfairly over the President's campaign, casting doubt on his reputation for integrity. The informer had passed along the rumor that Ford had illegally used contributions given to two Kent County Republican committees in Michigan by two unions: the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and the Seafarers International Union...
...Vendetta. Ruffs clearing statement said that the FBI had examined records of the Michigan committees and the two unions, both of which are heavy political contributors (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Officials of those groups had been interviewed. At Ruffs request, Ford had supplied financial records and authorized Ruff to examine an audit of his finances for the years 1967-72 made by the Internal Revenue Service and the Congressional Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Concluded Ruff: "The evidence developed during this investigation was not corroborative of the allegation on which it was predicated. Nor did evidence ... give reason to believe...
...very funny Polish joke is even less of a laughing matter for Jerry Ford. It echoes his troubles among Polish Americans and other people of Eastern European descent who make up 10% or more of the population in such pivotal states as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. A loss of a relatively few ethnic votes in those battlegrounds could cost Ford dearly, and many of these voters were surprised and offended by his celebrated gaffe in the second debate with Jimmy Carter. "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe," said the President ingenuously, adding...
...going to win the election. Even his professed hope of capturing four or five states is farfetched. Nonetheless he plans to spend the rest of the race concentrating on nine states where he has a substantial following among liberal Democrats and independents-Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Oregon, Michigan, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and California. That strategy looks as if it is designed to maximize the damage to Carter, and McCarthy seems almost to relish the role of wrecker. He says almost gleefully to applauding audiences: "I've been accused of being a spoiler. Well, how can you spoil this...
...MIDWEST: Carter is out front in Minnesota, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia. He barely holds Missouri. Ford has respectable margins in North Dakota, Nebraska and Indiana. He is well ahead back home in Michigan, and hangs on-but just by his fingertips-in Iowa and Bob Dole's Kansas. South Dakota is seen as a tossup. So are the region's three richest electoral prizes: Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin...