Word: apodaca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico, Gerald Apodaca...
...Jerry Apodaca, 40, was a successful insurance and real estate man in Las Cruces before he won a state senate seat in 1966. Three years later he became chairman of the legislature's reform-minded school study committee and head of New Mexico's Democratic Party. "If you're right on the issues, you may get in trouble with the politicians but not with the people," says Apodaca, who beat his closest opponent by just over 10,000 votes in a six-man scramble for the gubernatorial nomination last month. Supported by labor, Chicano activists and liberals...