Word: scrantons
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Goldwater and Rockefeller remain the names most frequently mentioned in talk about the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. But if both Barry and Rocky were to falter, the most likely G.O.P. choice would be either Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or Michigan's Governor George Romney. Both took office last January, replacing Democratic governors in key states with staggering economic problems. How each has met those problems may yet dictate the choice of next year's G.O.P. nominee. An interim report on their gubernatorial records...
Pennsylvania's Scranton took office with state unemployment at a horrendous 9.4%. He was presented by outgoing Democrat David Lawrence with a budget carrying a $53 million deficit -and, because of already-authorized new spending projects, holding the red ink even to that amount required raising $175 million more than state tax revenues brought in the previous year...
...Scranton, 46, went right to work, paring projected state financial obligations by $90 million. But even that would have left a total deficit of about $138 million. To raise the needed revenue, Scranton last April went before the legislature, asked for a hefty increase in the general sales tax, along with hiked cigarette and liquor taxes...
...numbers, Republicans controlled the Pennsylvania House 109 to 101, the Senate by 27 to 23. But there was'bitter factionalism within the ranks of the G.O.P. legislators. It took Scranton more than a month of hard-nosed, behind-the-scenes persuasion before the legislature passed a bill that raised the sales tax from 4% to 5%. Scranton can now lay claim to a balanced budget -a feat that had been considered impossible only a few months before...
...also tackled Pennsylvania's patronage mess. He wanted more than 50,000 state employees put under civil service regulations that would place them safely beyond the reach of pork-barreling politicians. Again, Scranton pushed his proposals through a reluctant legislature...