Word: republicans
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Barks & Blights. Docking lost his first campaign for governor in 1954 by 44,000 votes. On his second try, he campaigned in every county of the state, won by 115,000 votes. His victory followed a crunching split in the long-powerful Kansas G.O.P., where highhanded Republican Governor Fred Hall had thoroughly alienated his own party. Even so, the Republicans felt that a Democrat in the statehouse represented some political quirk of fate and would prove to be a brief nightmare. But once in office, Docking settled down to a program so different from Hall's that it pleased...
...Democratic Party is showing gaining strength, building a fresh, new organization, putting up candidates for county and municipal offices where Democrats have never had a chance. The Democrats already have one of Kansas' six congressional seats, have high hopes of gaining one or two more this November. The Republican factions are still too busy snapping at each other to find a good candidate to throw against Docking in the November election...
...worries Docking not at all that his budget is in for a drubbing. He has maneuvered so that the Republican defensive will make him look good to Kansas voters. With such a losing finesse likely to work out in his favor, the governor and his Democratic partners stand a good chance of picking up a new book of tricks in November...
...Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner and Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff took up the campaign in hopes of winning the votes of commuters, mostly presumed to be Republican. Furthermore, both states are pressed for cash and would like to get some of the money going to New York. The governors descended on New York's Governor Averell Harriman, another Democrat. But Harriman was cool to their heat: New York is already worried about a $20 million drop in all revenue. There may be discrimination, he agreed, but tax laws cannot be written to take into...
Also pressured to act last week was New Jersey s Republican Senator Clifford Case whose commuter constituents are taxed not only by New York but by Delaware and Philadelphia as well. Case introduced a Senate resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to prevent any state or local government from taxing nonresidents. His proposal also plugged by Rhode Island's Governor Dennis J. Roberts, whose constituents are taxed by Massachusetts, has very little chance. Even if it should get by the Senate Judiciary Committee, an amendment would need ratification by 36 states, and about a dozen are already taxing nonresidents...