Word: republicans
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...York politicians have rarely been accused of promoting a rational discussion of important issues and critical choices, and this year's candidates for the governorship haven't surprised anyone on that score. True to form, incumbent Gov. Hugh L. Carey and Republican challenger Perry B. Duryea, minority leader of the state assembly, have managed to reduce the decision on who is to run a state of 16 million people, whose cities tread regularly on the edge of bankruptcy and whose social service agencies are crumbling from dry rot and sheer neglect, into a banal game of phony partisan issues...
Clearly, Question 1 is a stopgap. No politician is going to call for an income tax, even though Republican gubernatorial candidate Frank Hatch '46 voted for the 1975 measure. Only when the King/Hatch campaign schemes for tax relief prove cosmetic, drippy lip gloss for the sore mouths and worn wallets of Massachusetts homeowners, will there exist even the possibility of genuine tax reform...
Frank Bellotti will win this one big. But his Republican opponent is making hay while the sun shines, with charges that Bellotti has gone easy on the state's biggest political scandal and that Bellotti may even be implicated...
...have an eye to the future, and this year is no different. Incumbent Francis X. Bellotti needs to win again to remain a viable force in state politics and to keep alive prospects for a shot for the governorship in the next election. William F. Weld '66, the young Republican challenger, is making his debut in state politics, and a victory or strong showing could be a stepping stone for an illustrious political career. Bellotti and Weld seem to be running not so much out of love for the particular office, but because while serving as Attorney General they...
...associate minority counsel of the United States House Judiciary Committee when that committee was investigating Watergate. He is presently living in Cambridge, with his wife, who is also a lawyer, and two children. Many political observers have said that the only problem with Weld is his political affiliation--Republican. Weld says he became a Republican because his father was a Republican, and leaves it at that. He is no ideologue...