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Question: in the 1990 MA Gubernatorial race?
#1
Bill Weld (R)
 
#2
John Silber (D)
 
#3
Leonard Umina (IHT)
 
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Total Voters: 24

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Mechaman
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« on: April 11, 2011, 06:55:29 AM »

Meh Weld sounds like the best choice out of the three.
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Mechaman
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« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2011, 08:22:48 PM »

I have no interest in voting for a libertarian-leaning candidate

That's good because Weld isn't one.

How so? Isn't he was generally regarded as a 'downsize the government' conservative with socially liberal leanings? Explicitly professing a libertarian ideology isn't what I mean by libertarian-leaning.

Except he didn't downsize government at all. He cut it by a measly 1.8% his first year then subsequently increased the budget roughly 17% by 1994. And social liberalism more often than not is the anti-thesis of libertarianism, there is nothing libertarian about affirmative action, gun control or special protections for gays for example. All of which of course Weld supported.
Yeah I heard something similar from Libertas, thus my "meh" vote.
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