Word: andersons
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...will undoubtedly be increased by the rightward shift among the incoming legislators. Again, the numbers are less important than the individual changes. The President lost five key liberal supporters in the Senate: Clark of Iowa, Thomas Mclntyre of New Hampshire, William Hathaway of Maine, Floyd Haskell of Colorado, Wendell Anderson of Minnesota. As head of the African Affairs Subcommittee, Clark was a strong backer of the Administration's policy of pressuring the white powers in southern Africa to grant black majority rule. He was defeated by Conservative...
...D.F.L. was, in a sense, a victim of its own success. It began to falter when once popular Governor Wendell Anderson resigned in 1976 and was immediately appointed by his former Lieutenant Governor, Rudy Perpich, to the Senate seat vacated by Mondale, who had moved into the vice presidency. Anderson's impatient act of self-promotion was resented by many Minnesota voters. Then Perpich appointed Muriel Humphrey to fill the remainder of her husband's term. That meant the state's three top offices were being held by members of the D.F.L. who had not been elected...
...D.F.L. might have survived its own overambition. Though Anderson made little impact in the Senate, Humphrey wisely decided not to seek a full Senate term this year, and the colorful Perpich began emerging as an able Governor. But without Hubert's healing hand the party fell into a fatal primary fight. Robert Short, a millionaire businessman-sportsman (truck-firm operator, former owner of the Minneapolis-now Los Angeles-Lakers and the Washington Senators), challenged a Humphrey protégé, liberal Congressman Don Fraser, for the nomination to Humphrey's seat and won the primary in an upset...
...indeed. D.F.L. voters abandoned their party in large numbers, and Short was trounced in the Senate vote by Republican David Durenberger, 44, a Minneapolis lawyer. Durenberger's margin was some 400,000 votes. Anderson was defeated by Rudy Boschwitz, 48, a lanky Jewish émigré from Nazi Germany and millionaire founder of a Midwestern chain of stores selling home-construction and remodeling materials...
Attacking Anderson's frequent and unexplained absenteeism in the Senate, Boschwitz campaigned effectively, charging: "First Anderson appoints himself to the job and then he doesn't show up for work." Boschwitz won by more than 200,000 votes. Perpich ran a closer race but lost his Governor's office to veteran Republican Congressman Albert Quie, a moderate who earned a reputation as one of the G.O.P.'s most effective legislators in his ten terms in the House...