Word: nonpartisan
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...issue is clearly nonpartisan, for the "Republican" plan has consistently been supported by a coalition composed in roughly equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. The sales tax was first proposed almost ten years ago by former Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, and its most vociferous supporter, next to the Governor himself, has been Collins -- a power in the state Democratic party. Furthermore, the bill is not one that pits liberal against conservative, for most of the state's liberals have either supported it, or out of personal loyalty to Donahue, remained discreetly silent. Finally, the bill is hardly a confrontation between...
...fellow members of the Springfield city commission. Other Negroes have served as mayors of towns and small cities, but Henry is the only Negro now serving in a community of Springfield's size. By custom, the commissioner who receives the greatest popular vote in the nonpartisan popular election is named to the largely honorary post of mayor. Henry, a Republican, was the top vote getter last November after the Springfield Sun editorialized that he "began public service as Springfield's first Negro city commissioner and long since proved himself everyone's commissioner...
...ALABAMA. Five of the state's eight U.S. Representatives are Republicans, all elected in 1964. In all, 105 Republicans now hold elective public offices in Alabama, not counting mayors or aldermen, who run mostly in nonpartisan municipal elections. So confident is the state's G.O.P. organization that it plans to field candidates next year not only for the U.S. Senate seat held since 1946 by Democrat John Sparkman, but also for every major state office as well...
Cavanagh's popularity and his strength lead to only one conclusion: that he wishes to seek higher office in Michigan. He is probably more interested in the Senate than in the Governorship, but both of the state's seats are held by Democrats. (Detroit municipal officers are nonpartisan, but Cavanagh is known to be a Democrat.) Senator Philip Hart, who is 51 and was reelected last year by 900,000 votes, is not about to retire, but the other seat, held by 70-year-old Pat McNamara might be up for grabs...
...Republican Party. For if the G.O.P. expects to become a truly national party again, it is to progressive, liberal candidates of Mr. Lindsay's stature that it must turn. The days of Goldwater have passed. Now Mr. Lindsay must turn all his efforts toward giving New York dynamic, nonpartisan government. He has won, and now he must prove himself, but he cannot do it alone; it is time for those who welcomed his victory to join him in his efforts...