Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lieutenant Governor, Robert Killian, who said that he might consider a state income tax. Grasso countered that she would veto such a measure. She also pointed to three straight years of budget surpluses. She trounced Killian 2 to 1 and is favored to win in November against Republican Congressman Ronald Sarasin...
...Donald Eraser was narrowly defeated by a conservative millionaire businessman, Robert Short. Eraser was one of the few Democratic candidates who still defended costly social programs. Short called Eraser's liberalism a "burden on the people" and urged a $100 billion slash in the federal budget. Even the Republican Senate candidate, Dave Durenberger, is less of a budget cutter than Short, an indication of the upheaval in the once powerful D.F.L...
Almost every Republican with presidential ambitions has been making the trek to New Hampshire, which holds the first primary in the nation (Feb. 26, 1980). Illinois Republican Philip Crane, so far the only declared G.O.P. presidential contender, has made half a dozen swings through the state. Some local Republicans have informed Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker that they would like to start organizing for him, but Baker is now concerned with winning re-election by a big margin in Tennessee. The moderates are ready to support Ford, but if he decides not to run, they are prepared to back former...
...Congressmen by saying there could have been four shots, and thus a second gunman. But when pressed, he said there was only a fifty-fifty chance that four shots could have been fired. Further, he said his finding could be the result of random statistical error. When Michigan Republican Harold Sawyer grumbled, "I'd hate to sue anybody or prosecute any body on this sort of evidence," Barger just shrugged...
...central issue between the Government and the people is taxes, "says New York Representative Barber Conable, the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. But rarely do leading citizens and Government policymakers get an opportunity to exchange their views face to face on this basic and sensitive issue. At a moment when the U.S. Senate is debating where and how much to reduce taxes, and many states are moving to emulate California's tax-slashing Proposition 13, Time Inc. last week brought 90 top businessmen and economists to Washington for a Conference on Taxation...