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- <text id=90TT0928>
- <title>
- Apr. 16, 1990: American Notes:Governors
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 16, 1990 Colossal Colliders:Smash!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- GOVERNORS
- Heading for The Exit
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The Governors of the economically beleaguered Northeast are
- calling it quits. First Michael Dukakis, surveying
- Massachusetts' shattered miracle, announced he would not seek
- re-election this fall. Then Connecticut Democrat William
- O'Neill said he had no taste for the difficult campaign he
- faced after hiking the sales tax to 8% and chopping $600
- million out of the state's $7 billion budget.
- </p>
- <p> The latest dropout is Democrat Madeleine Kunin of Vermont,
- who announced last week that she will not seek a fourth term.
- She has been forced to cut social programs and propose a 3%
- income tax hike. Kunin blames Washington for "telling the
- American public they can have it both ways: no tax increases
- and increased social services. Unfortunately, Governors can't
- play by these rules."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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