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...government. But there was nothing mellow or complacent about the New Mexican who addressed the liberal Americans for Democratic Action in Los Angeles last week. "The hands that pick our lettuce, the hands that pick our cotton, are the hands that can pick the next President," thundered Governor Toney Anaya. "I will travel the length and width of this great nation as many times as I have to to ensure that Ronald Reagan is retired...
...scant ten months after taking office as the nation's highest-ranking Hispanic and its only Hispanic Governor, Anaya, 42, has established himself as a colorful and controversial activist with national ambitions. In New Mexico, a state with a weak Governor system, he has already earned a reputation as an ironfisted leader. Nationally he has gained visibility as chairman of Hispanic Force '84, an effort by elected and appointed Hispanic officials to mobilize the nation's approximately 6 million voting-age Hispanics into an influential force in the Democrats' 1984 presidential campaign. Says Anaya: "My political...
Born the seventh of ten children in the small town of Moriarty in central New Mexico, Anaya grew up in a three-room adobe house with a dirt floor, outdoor plumbing and no electricity or telephone. His father was a laborer and broncobuster; his mother spoke almost no English and was only semiliterate in Spanish. By the age of seven he was working before and after school at his brother's grocery store as well as milking the family cows and chopping wood. "I've been on the same treadmill ever since," he says. "I've never...
After he was elected New Mexico's attorney general in 1974, Anaya transformed the office from a sleepy political backwater into one of the most visible and independent positions in the state by crusading against white-collar crime and championing consumer and environmental issues. In 1982 he was elected Governor by a margin of 25,000 votes out of 406,000 cast, considered a landslide in New Mexico. Under state law, however, Anaya cannot succeed himself, a fact that has made him work feverishly to put his populist stamp on state government and consolidate power in the Governor...