Word: romneys
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...afraid you weren't going to ask me that," replied Governor George Romney to the inevitable question at the Washington dinner he was addressing. Romney may have been half-joking, but only half: his Presidential stock has gone down considerably in the past year. Only last spring his name was invariably mentioned after Rockefeller and Goldwater and before Scranton; now he has difficulty making the Top Five...
...Romney's main liability is that he hasn't made a roaring success of being Michigan's first Republican governor in fifteen years. Most of his proposals failed to get through the Legislature, where they were opposed both by Democrats and by the outstate, ultra-conservative Republicans who have dominated both houses. Michigan, which Republicans often call labor-dominated, still does not have a minimum wage law, although Romney has again promised one for this year. Romney's one attempt to assert state over federal power ended when the state Attorney-General, a Democrat, ruled it unconstitutional; thus the state...
...Romney's Presidential stock feel fastest, however, when the Legislature rejected his tax program. The governor had proposed an income tax, lower corporation taxes, and the removal of the four per cent sales tax on food and drugs--virtually the same program his predecessor, John B. Swainson, had advanced a year before. If anything, Romney had worse luck than Swainson in the Legislature. At one point, Swainson had a majority of the state Senate supporting his bill, when suddenly six moderate Republicans decided at once that each of the other five was going to change his vote, and the bill...
...Romney still retains some of the charisma that shone on the cover of Time magazine in his more cocksure days; he runs ahead of Governor Scranton, for instance, in a poll of Republican rank-and-file. However, he has never actively sought the Party's Presidential nomination for 1964, and he has no large organization working for him. Besides, party professionals, who now place him far down the list, have never liked him much anyhow; it is said that they feel he is too independent. But this does not explain much, for while he is certainly not allied with...
What is probably more objectionable to professional politicians is his lack of vote-getting ability, Admittedly, Romney is Michigan's first Republican governor since "Soapy" Williams won the first of his six terms in 1948. But Michigan has given Democrats other than Williams consistent majorities only since 1954, and their pluralities have seldom been large--again Williams is the exception. In this light, Romney's victory over Swainson by 80,000 votes in 1962 pales beside Scranton's 480,000 margin and Rockefeller...