[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It's the self-styled "governors of the commonwealth"

Scat, he lies.

Actually, they simply adopted Dukasis' chacterization. The Duke's response to their critism was to assert that the Commonwealth had one Governor, not three. When Howie and Barbara were guests on Jerry's show they called themselves "The Three Governors" in dirision.

[raccoonradio]

That was a great move, turning Dukakis’ words right back
on him.
Remember Howie making fun of MSD as “Pee Wee”?

Jerry would have an impersonator on—Jim Flaherty, I
think his name is?—doing the Duke complete with all
the “errs” and “very, very”s. Once Flaherty was on
with Brudnoy and I called in. He joked (in the Duke’s
voice) about turning the Golden Dome of the State House
upside down and having people throw money in, etc.
One reg. joke he did: “We’ll er, er, look at the
numbers and talk to the people, and then we’ll
talk to the numbers and look at the people.”