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The other Republicans in the race are no pushovers either. Connecticut House Speaker Anthony Wallace, 46, is well respected by his fellow legislators. Newman Marsilius, 44, is a conservative former state senator with an impressive knowledge of the state's economy. Peter Mariani, 46, minority leader of the state senate, built up from scratch the largest electrical-parts house in the state. John Mather Lupton, 45, an evangelistic conservative, stirs his audiences with charges that Ribicoff is a "collectivist," claims the John Birch Society is "no more extreme than the A.D.A." He stumped Lodge's home town of Westport, got his own slate of delegates elected (1,237 to 1,206) over a slate then pledged to Lodge for Governor.
The 660 delegates to the state convention must endorse one of these candidates ; yet the fratricide may not end there. Any one who gets 20% of the votes can de mand a primary election. And most seem determined to do just that.