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Democratic .upporters at the Sheraton Hotel whoop it up TuMday niPt upon word

of the Cllnt9n-Go1 II vietory.

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Remember When Vermantwas Republican?

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shows. What farther indignities anitVermom'.

Gnnd Old Party?

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Governor Howard Dean. who defeated challenger John McClaughry by a

supporter'll the Sheraton Hotel Tuesday nigbL

.eNewVermont rder

Continued rom Page J

In Lh et,wake ofClinton's, Dean's and

Leahy's triumphs also

came

Democratic

victories as

Ed Flanagan won the auditor of

accounLs office and Paul Ruse reLainea the .

stale treasurer's

job.

Democrat Don Hooper and Republican

James Milne stayed up longftnto Wednesday

morning, watclling as la te reporting towns

narrowed and widened a sliIQ margin in

Hooper's favor in their contest for secretary

ofstate. For the Republicans, Attorney

6eneral JeffAmestoy, running with no

serious opposition, easily won another tenn.

Still, the evening brought deep

disappointmenLs to the Democrats. Rulland

County

Senator

David Wolk. riding the.

governor's popularity and coattai 1 s from start

to finish of his under dog campaign for

lieutenant governor, failed to oveftake

Republican Barbara Snelling. Tliat loss,

combined with early projections ofa narrow

Republican control of the Senate, leaves

Dean with the prospect of confronting

opposition factions in the Upper Chamber 88

he struggles with the budget and attempts to

institute health care financing reforms.

The

governor wi'll no

t.,

however,

hav

e to

deal with se rious Republican opposition in

the House i f early returns prove accurate.

Dean will instead face the

usually friendly

but sometimes contentious - person of

Democratic Speaker Ra1ph Wright of

Bennington. Along with Burlington

Democratic House member Barbara Grimes,

Wright engineered what appeared from early

tallies to be a landslide over their Republican

rivals. With few official returns availabke,

informal counts gave

the

Democrats well over

80 seats in the 150 member chamber. .

Just a short 10 years ago," Wright said in

a phone conversation early Wednesday

morning, -When the Republicans had the

Democrats down 85-t0-65, I

said I was going

to turn this around. I never thought rd do it,

but this was just on hellava political night

from the White House to the State House."

And from the White House to the State

House, the greatest h n ~ brought in

Tuesday's balloting

was

Clinton's

aC1"088 the country to h ~ . f ~ . l ~ ~ ' h . ~ =

-Democrat th thTOVil

envision help rather than in

facilitating more flexible use offC\ieral funds

for health eareinitiatives and job creation

programs. Having a governor - or soon to be

former governor running the federal

.government will also provide at least a more

sympathetic

hearing from the

White HOWIe

when Stales call for help. -And i f he ian\,

Dean

laid

88

be

.

watched

late returns

in

a

room at-the Sheraton, l hear aboutit."

Still, Dean hard\y apocted mirocIeo from

WuhiDgtan. (Clinton'.) got problema with

(the fedenol) hwIpt thet . . . . far wane than

DW Dean..wl. l 'haeuat... . to go

away jU8t becauae we have a DeW pl"lllllident."

But Leoh.J, with the help .on apparenll,y

II'VwinI Democra t ic . . in the U.S.

Seoale, ohouId . . . . . be ohio to win

and pNOiciol)tiaI oipatun lO r ouch

,.....,...

. . hia

to

aJIow state.

more

lalitude in din c:Iinc fedenolfundo lOr health

.

If you've got: somebody who's n6t gqj.ng to

veto things for ideological reasons; Leahy

said, referring Bush;'s stream of veLoefl in the

past four e r s "then you should be ab le to

pass things

with substance."

Leahy

al

sO

expressed hope that dealing with a former

governor of a small rural state would ease

negotiations for federal measures targeted to

enhance rural

developmentana p'rotection of

small farms.

.., don't know what Clinton's going to do ,"

Wright swd, . But his heart's in the right

place, and thQ.t's a start. We haven't had that

in 12

years.

Gaining

control of the state Senate, i f early

"returnshold. promised to

be

the

Republican's .

greatest achievement of the evening. With a

few key"races still in the balance, the GOP

was expected to hold a 16-t.o-14 edge in the

30-member chamber. That could give them

along with Snelling - complete control of the

3-member panel that assigns members to

committees, an advantage that could s iape

spending and tax measures, h e a 1 t h ~ r e .

refonn and every'other bill that moves

through the Legislature in the neXt. two -

years.

While those concerns were high in the

minds of Dem0CT'8tic office holders as

they

watched tallies roll in to makeshift boiler

rooms on election night, such details were

relatively remote worries forthe masses. of

partying acolytes hack in theOallroom.

There, the sign-wielders who waved at cars

on street comers throughout Tuesday's chill

danced $Dd whooped into the night as Paul

Simon - the singer. not the Democratic '

senator

from Dlinois - wailed

-r...et

me

call

you AI when Vice President-Elect Gore

appeared on"the big.scroon T.V

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