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...President, the numbers of party victories were less troubling than the particular winners and losers. Potentially strong Republicans had captured key governorships: Richard Thornburgh in Pennsylvania, William Clements in Texas, Lee Dreyfus in Wisconsin. Republican Jim Rhodes remained in control of the Ohio statehouse, and Bill Milliken was re-elected Governor of Michigan. Perhaps most threatening of all, Jim Thompson won re-election in Illinois by 600,000 votes-demonstrating that he is a moderate Republican with broad appeal in a big industrial state. He has not denied that he might run for President in 1980. Said Thompson: "The Republican...
...Bill Bradley (D) New Mexico Not Yet Reported Pete V. Domenici (R) New York Hugh L. Carey (D) North Carolina Jesse A. Helms (R) North Dakota Ohio Too Close to Call Oklahoma George Nigh (D) David L. Boren (D) Oregon Victor Atiyeh (R) Mark O. Hatfield (R) Pennsylvania Richard Thornburgh (R) Rhode Island J. Joseph Garrahy (D) Claiborne Pell (D) South Carolina Richard W. Riley (D) Strom Thurmond (R) South Dakota William J. Janklow (R) Larry Pressler (R) Tennessee Lamar Alexander (R) Howard H. Baker Jr. (R) Texas Too Close to Call Too Close to Call Utah Vermont Richard...
...Garth but also by the legendary Joe Napolitan, onetime seer for Hubert Humphrey; then to Detroit, where he is handling the re-election campaign of Governor William Milliken; then to Ohio to write some TV spots for Governor Rhodes; then to Pennsylvania for a conference with Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Thornburgh. Says Deardourff: "You either win or you lose, and people who lose fall by the wayside...
PENNSYLVANIA. Democrat Pete Flaherty is considered ahead in the Governor's race, partly because he was a penny pincher even before Proposition 13. As mayor of Pittsburgh, he trimmed the city payroll by about 25% and reduced real estate taxes. Even so, neither Flaherty nor his G.O.P. opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is calling for a state tax cut, since Pennsylvania is running a small deficit. Instead, both are proposing constitutional amendments to limit state spending. As U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Thornburgh sent some 200 gangsters and corrupt public officials to prison. But one of these, Numbers Racketeer Anthony Grosso...
About a dozen incidents have come to Thornburgh's attention. A Los Angeles woman, fired by her employer, made a dozen copies of her last paycheck and cashed them all; an East Coast bank was taken for a total of $25,000 when someone cashed copies of a check at 13 different branches; a Washington, D.C., man drove away with a $10,000 Cadillac bought with a copy of a cashier's check...