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SECTION 3, PAGE 7 STATE JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1978 Leg is Dative Header Alolimicaro dies To accommodate our patrons we have relocated to 306 State Street i f. Come in and visit our spacious new studio and browse through our fine selection of HANDWROUGHT JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS GEMS After his brief term as speaker in the 1959-61 session, the Republicans regained control of the Assembly and Molinaro lost his top Democratic position to Huber. Molinaro was speaker pro tem of the Assembly in 1965. Huber named Molinaro co-chairman of the Joint Finance Committee in 1965 and 1971, with the Republicans controlling the Legislature in other years. Molinaro was bumped from that powerful chairmanship in the 1973 although he remained a member of the committee as he had most of the years he was in the Assembly.

He was made chairman of the Assembly Rules Committee and suggested many of the procedural changes that came in the 1977 session after he had left. In recent years Molinaro has been affiliated with a Kenosha bank as a director and officer. Funeral services are pending. THE WORKSHOP 306 State "Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 (608)251-7705 Former state Rep. George Molin-aro, D-Kenosha, a longtime Democratic leader in the Legislature, died Friday night at University of Wisconsin Hospitals after a brief illness.

Molinaro, who would have been 76 today, had been speaker of the Assembly in the 1959-61 legislative session, was Democratic floor leader several terms when the Democrats were in the minority and twice was chairman of the powerful budget-writing Joint Finance Committee. Molinaro had suffered from cancer complicated by emphyzema in recent months. During his years in the Legislature, he seldom was seen without a cigar jutting from his mouth or a cigarette in his hand. Prior to being elected to the Assembly in 1946, Molinaro had served 10 years on the Kenosha County Board. Molinaro retired from the Legislature in 1976 after serving 30 years, a tie for the longest tenure for an Assembly member in legislative history.

The other former member with 30 years service was Rep. Tom Klostuck, D-Portage, who also had been a Republican and Progressive during his 30 years. The Kenosha representative started out as an American Motors assembly line employee and was that when elected to the Legislature. He once noted that when he arrived in the Assembly in 1947, "there were so few Democrats we could caucus in a telephone booth." Molinaro became embroiled in the since the demise of the Progressive Party in 1946, had a much better grasp of the procedures and often created havoc in the chamber. Molinaro, with a quick temper and what even his friends admit was a shaky grasp of the English language, frequently added to the tumult.

Molinaro also was known both for his feisty debating style in the Joint Finance Committee and the full Assembly and for his speaking style, which awed, perplexed, amused and warmed the hearts of many because it seldom included a complete sentence. However, Molinaro seldom had problems getting his point across to his protagonists, frequently heads of state agencies he found were doing less than a good job in his view. A few examples of his speaking style, taken from a tape-recorded interview before his retirement: Asked about conflict between the Senate and Assembly, he said "While the Senate for once has gotten control of that house, I think that control has gone to their heads and instead of having cooperation we've come to squabbling as young children do. I don't think much of it of grown people. I don't lend any fuel to keep it burning, and I've decided to quit trying to pour cold water on a hot dog." Commenting in the Joint Finance Committee on a proposal to conduct a study of the civil service system, Molinaro once said: "If we took all the studies that we've ever had in the state of Wiscon 10-5 Since 1970 George Molinaro Democrats on that committee insisted on meeting privately to make budget decisions before ratifying them in the regular open sessions of the full committee.

Molinaro had started his leadership tenure in 1959 as an opponent of secrecy in the Assembly. Although his Democratic colleagues voted that year to hold closed-door party caucuses, Molinaro said he preferred open caucuses. He said again in 1977 that although he supported the majority view, he didn't care who sat in on the pre-meet-ing caucuses. Molinaro's election as speaker of the Assembly in 1959 was somewhat of an upset. He defeated Rep.

Robert Huber, D-West Allis, who was speaker in the 1965 and 1971 sessions. His tenure as presiding officer was a tumultuous one according to Assembly observers of that time. sin and loaded them on the biggest battleship we have, you know it would uauiesiup we nave, you kjiuw woi secrecy controversy during the 1977 legislative session as a member of the Joint Finance Committee. Assembly legislative session as a memuer ui me Joint Finance Committee. Assembly The Republicans, who had con ine nepuuiicans, wno nau con- trolled both houses of the Legislature sink in 10 minutes." Council president will quit that job when he formally runs for mayor nouncement is made, several alder Arnold said his appointment to the By Thomas W.

Still Of The State Journal Rather than tempt "conflict of interest" charges, City Council President Fred Arnold said Friday he will quit that post once his decision on running for mayor becomes final. "It just makes sense to do that," said Arnold, who filed his mayoral campaign committee Wednesday. "Why leave any doubt about it when I can just resign?" men mostly from the city's downtown districts have asked that he step down immediately. Some aldermen also are asking Arnold to dump his membership on the city's Board of Estimates, which will begin review of Madison's 1979 budget next month. Arnold said he does not plan to surrender to either demand.

"It's ironic, in a sense, that anyone would care" about forcing an immediate resignation from the president's job, Arnold said, because the post prevents him from speaking out. "When you're chairing a meeting, you have no opportunity to speak to the issues," he said. "If they want to shut me up they should leave me there until I make a formal announcement. "Once I'm back in my regular seat, I can talk just like anyone else," Arnold said. Board of Estimates came in April, 1977 a year before his election as council president.

"I plan to serve out my two-year term," he said. Alderman Natalie Smith, 1st District, the council's president pro tem, would become acting president once Arnold steps down. Since city law does not provide for council elections in the event of a resignation, the pro tem post probably would "remain vacant until next year. Arnold is one of four people who have filed mayoral campaign committees a sure sign they will seek the top post next year. Mayor Paul Soglin will not run for a fourth term.

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