Word: weicker
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...party. The level of support remains high, though regard for Perot has ebbed. Waning loyalty to the major parties, rather than enthusiasm for any one independent leader, whets the appetite for alternatives. "You're going to see a centrist, third-party challenge in '96, without question," says Lowell Weicker, a former Republican Senator who won Connecticut's governorship as an independent. Others speculate about a fourth party as well...
...governors have started the fight to make the GOP pro-choice, or at least netural. Govs. Christine Todd Whitman (R-N.J.), Pete Wilson (R-Cal.) and Massachusetts' own William F. Weld '66 have taken up the battle that Weld and Connecticut governor and former U.S. senator Lowell P. Weicker lost repeatedly. All three have aspirations to sit in big offices in the nation's capital, so consensus will eventually become very important to them. The question becomes whether the Republican Party will stand behind each or any of them...
Currently, many Massachusetts residents gamble at the Foxwoods Casino in nearby Ledyard, Conn. If state residents are going to gamble, we might as well take their dollars for ourselves, rather than letting them enrich Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker's fiefdom...
Outright prohibition -- at least of handguns -- is exactly what some people have in mind. Rhode Island Senator John Chafee has twice introduced a bill to ban their sale, manufacture and possession. Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker plans to introduce a bill in February making it a crime for most people to be caught outside their home or business with a concealed weapon. Weicker says he intends for the law to lay the groundwork for an eventual ban on handguns in his state -- though as a lame-duck Governor he would be leaving the job of getting one as a tricky legacy...
INTERVIEW Governor Lowell Weicker on making tough choices...