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...even if the council does manage to piece the petition together, it is likely to meet the unfriendly veto pen of Governor William F. Weld '66, a strong opponent of rent control...
Asking them to do otherwise is futile. Let them drag rent control--a very dead horse--through the dirt. The time they waste will prevent them from doing more damaging things. And Gov. Weld can simply veto whatever they produce...
...William Weld...
...G.O.P. is still divided. While making war on Clinton, they will make war on themselves. By and large the new congressional Republicans, led by Gingrich, are of the busybody moralistic sort. But in the statehouses, Republicans like William Weld in Massachusetts and Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin are of the libertarian, problem-solving sort. The Democrats, in a division embodied in Clinton himself, are split between old-line, Big Government sorts and a faction that sees the limits of state intervention. A stable middle has yet to be established. Neither party has the leaders or the programs to transcend the need...
...Outside Moderates: Two newly re-elected Governors, William Weld in Massachusetts and Pete Wilson in California, have proved that government works. Both are fiscal conservatives and social moderates. They are pro- choice. "Most of the possibilities will be cookie-cutter candidates running to the right to get well with the Christian Coalition, which makes up about 25% of the nominating electorate," says G.O.P. consultant Roger Stone. "There's room for a pro-choice Republican like Weld or Wilson, and the social issues have always been big in the primaries." But Wilson could have trouble even at home. California conservatives supported...