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...majorities in white working-class and middle-class areas. Green, 32, son and namesake of the longtime Philadelphia political boss who died in 1963, polled only 35%, despite glittering endorsements from Senators John Tunney and Edward Kennedy and the tardy backing of Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp. Green ran most strongly in black wards and well-to-do Chestnut Hill...
Green also received the endorsement and active support of Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor, Milton Shapp. Apparently this didn't help Green much either. Shapp has been pushing a very unpopular tax plan, and his identification with Green gave voters an opportunity to vote against Shapp through Green. Rizzo attacked the tax plan, thus strengthening his position with those voters...
...lead me to believe that our chances of getting federal revenue sharing without strings attached are virtually nil." McKeithen's is no ordinary congressional delegation: it includes House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Mills' Senate counterpart, Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee! Pennsylvania's Milton Shapp, also a Democrat, attacked the Nixon plan for offering neither short-term nor long-term solutions to his state's problems. Agnew in turn taxed Shapp with eroding "the unified, massive effort it will take" to get revenue sharing through Congress. But the cause of federalized welfare was already...
Michael S. Dukakis, the defeated Democratic candidate for Lientenant-Governor in Massachusetts, is scheduled to discuss campaigning with the group sometime next week. The seminar has also invited an aide to recently-elected Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp to speak in two weeks on politics and the techniques of campaigning...
...NORTHEAST. Pennsylvania Democrat Milton Shapp defeated Raymond Broderick by a 498,000-vote margin that astonished even Shapp. Under the reign of Governor Ray Shafer, political heir to the widely admired William Scranton, the state deficit rose to $500 million (the budget is currently $1.2 billion). Broderick's plans to cut spending antagonized large blocs of voters. Shapp, a wiry and intense millionaire, will become the Commonwealth's first Jewish Governor. "The people wanted a change," said Phrasemaker Shapp...