Word: sarasin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ella Grasso, 59, also had some problems with her prickly personality. But her record of fiscal austerity prevented Republican Congressman Ronald Sarasin from making a believable antispending pitch to Connecticut voters. She defeated Sarasin easily and will remain one of the country's two women Governors. (The other is Washington's Dixy...
...Republican adversary, Congressman Ronald Sarasin, faults her for substantially increasing the state budget. But Grasso has produced a surplus for three successive years, and she has proposed sales and business tax cuts for the 1979 budget. Sarasin is leading a petition drive for a state-constitution ban on an income tax and a limit on spending. He says of the 50,000 people who have signed to date: "I see them as supporting the concept. I hope they support...
...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...
...going to come from. Though the party did not suffer a rout and there was no consistent pattern across the U.S., the more the professionals examined the returns, the more it appears that voters, especially Republican voters, had decided to punish the G.O.P. for Watergate. Says Ronald A. Sarasin, a Republican Congressman from Connecticut, where the Democrats captured an additional 22 town halls: "Too many outstanding officials were defeated for no discernible reasons to attribute it to normal local considerations. We must not sit back and think that the Washington situation had no effect even though...