Word: amand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hired Guns. Helping to get out the vote in Mississippi was a new kind of Wallace operative. Steve St. Amand, 25, worked in Edmund Muskie's 1972 presidential campaign, but he had no qualms about switching to Wallace because he wants the political experience. While he labored in Mississippi, 17 other "hired guns," all under 30 and earning $12,000 a year, were organizing elsewhere for Wallace. The candidate could not care less whether they agree with him. Says Wallace's director of communications, Joe Azbell: "What we want from these young people is expertise and hard work...