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...Democratic Party is stronger here and the identification that people have with the Democratic Party is stronger here than it is in other places," says William B. Vernon, executive director of the Massachusetts State Republican Party...
...Republicans here have a higher mountain to climb in terms of voter registration and we also have a higher cultural hill to get over. For many years, it was culturally unacceptable to be a Republican in Massachusetts," Vernon adds. "I kept the fact that I was a Republican under wraps...I mean if I was at some social function in Cambridge, I would not say I was a Republican...
...Although Vernon was happy with Weld's convincing win over Democratic State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 in November, he laments the fact that there is "no spokesman for the Republican Party here on national issues...
...Vernon E. Carter, who lives in a rent-controlled apartment in Cambridge, says he'll be able to keep his unit because of his advanced age. But he worries about the impact of the rent control's loss on students and other renters...
...reveals in owlish, bumpety-bump verse and vivid drawings why the great man entered politics: because his livestock drove him goobers. His cows insisted on wearing lavender gowns and being sprayed with cologne (which was quite expensive); his pigs wore wigs and served dinner to guests at Mount Vernon (very nicely too, but still ); and his sheep wore academic gowns and delivered lectures. They "measured the sea with a stick./ Then, raising their hoofs in triumph, they cried:/ 'We say with a certain amount of pride,/ If the ocean were stood up on its side/ You would see that...