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...control of a vital state. PENNSYLVANIA. Hubert Humphrey could explain the impossibility of shucking identity with an unpopular Administration. An ardent listener would be Lieutenant Governor Raymond J. Broderick of Pennsylvania, who is striving to move up a notch and to dissociate himself from unpopular Governor Raymond P. Shafer in the process. Republican Shafer will leave the state in a fiscal shambles, with new taxes a prospect. The campaign of Broderick against Millionaire Milton J. Shapp, a Democrat, revolves around the problem of where to get the needed revenues, and Broderick begins his speeches by declaring: "I am the candidate...
Getting together to talk about common concerns may seem an unexceptional event. Granted, the eight days of discussions that ended last week in York, Pa., produced no miraculous cures for the aching city of 50,000. Yet the women's pride was justified. York, Governor Raymond Shafer said recently, is "one of the most tense communities in Pennsylvania as far as race relations go." Facing the usual array of urban inadequacies and the possibility of a third consecutive summer of violence, blacks and whites have been trying not only to limit confrontation to talking rather than fighting, but also...
...Council of Economic Advisers under Ike, were both reasonable bets for Secretary of the Treasury. Republican National Chairman Ray Bliss may become Postmaster General, which would let Nixon put his own man atop the G.O.P. apparatus. Michigan's Governor George Romney or Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond Shafer could be named Secretary of Commerce...
...maintain a tenuous hold on power, the party's real strength has been slipping away. In the past six years, the Democrats have lost two gubernatorial elections and one U.S. Senate contest. While the Republicans have been fielding attractive candidates like William Scranton. Hugh Scott and Raymond Shafer, and backing them with unite campaigns, the Democrats have been wasting their energies in destructive primary contests...
Permanent Minority. After Shafer won the governorship in 1966, Joe Napolitan, a gifted political manager who had worked for the Democrats, inspected his party's hardening arteries and concluded. "The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania is ready for a major reorganization." Progress since Napolitan's critique has been nil. Former Governor George Leader observes that his party has shown "no sense of urgency" in coping with its problems...