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Graham, an active supporter of local tenant groups, will also appear on the November ballot as an independent, nonpartisan candidate for state representative...
...former G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss. "I believe this will be a morale booster." In Massachusetts, Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent was quick to take advantage of the change in the political climate. Since only 19% of his state's voters are Republican, Sargent must maintain an almost nonpartisan position to win reelection, yet in the meantime he faces a tough fight in the primaries with Conservative Candidate Carroll Sheehan. Last week Sargent began to attack "blind, deaf and dumb" partisanship, rejecting for himself "the law that says loyalty to the party is the highest loyalty in government...
...were Democrats). The intended harassment, which began early in the Nixon Administration, was often blocked by the men Nixon himself had appointed commissioners of the Internal Revenue Service or by Treasury Department officials. Though bullied by top White House aides, these men often insisted that the integrity of nonpartisan application of tax laws must be protected and that political use of tax information on individuals not only violated privacy but also violated federal law governing the IRS. Non-political audits are of course commonplace. Many taxpayers are routinely audited in random checks of their returns, or because some part...
Spending Ceiling. Among these would be the establishment of an office of "public attorney" - a sort of permanent version of the Special Watergate Prosecutor - who would prosecute criminal cases involving conflicts of interest within the Executive Branch. The committee favored setting up a nonpartisan elections commission to enforce statutes governing campaign contributions and expenditures. It proposed that cash contributions by an individual be limited to $100; that total contributions by any person to a presidential candidate be limited to $6,000; and that the overall spending in any presidential campaign be limited to an amount equal to 120 for every...
...points in this year's batch of amendments to vote against a solid majority of them. Harvard opposed, for instance, a series of resolutions asking corporations to affirm their political nonpartisanship because, although the sentiments behind the resolution were noble, the corporations had already said publicly that they are nonpartisan...