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To the editor:
There are those who disagree with Vice-President Bush's claim that “Gov. Dukakis has not been a highly successful governor” and they ask, “who are the best judges of this?” The answer to that question could be Dukakis’ very own fellow' Democrats in the state of Massachusetts. Here are some facts about his record:
The governing body of the 1,600 member Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association voted to endorse Mr. Bush, just as it had endoresed President Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Robert Guiney, president of this police union and a 30-year veteran of the force said, “during his term as governor, Dukakis has presided over a revolving-door criminal justice system; that he has pardoned 232 felons over a four-year period, including those convicted of drug-dealing; that his liberal furlough policies for convicts resulted in 428 convicts failing to return from those furloughs.”
Jack Flood, Democratic Chairman of the Massachusetts House Taxation Committee said, “The national media are portraying Dukakis as a successful implementer of economic policies. But on every important economic measure affecting the state since 1980, he lost.” For example.
• In 1980, Dukakis opposed a 40 percent property tax cut and cap (Proposition 2-1/2). The voters passed it 50 to 41.
• In 1985, he proposed a damaging world-wide unitary tax on cor
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