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...Mexico's Democratic Governor Jerry Apodaca, 42, finds himself in a situation where he would like to lead in a different direction but has no hope of succeeding. "A bill [restoring
CHRIS BROWN, 27, New England Regional Coordinator. A native of Seattle and an expert on the mechanics of campaigning, he was a student organizer for McCarthy in 1968, and was an early co-chairman for McGovern in Seattle four years later. In 1974 he managed Jerry Apodaca's winning gubernatorial campaign in New Mexico. After briefly serving on Apodaca's staff, Brown joined Carter in 1975. Now that the electioneering is moving on to primaries beyond New England, Brown will probably run Carter's campaign in the Western states...
...complicated than the fact that the party had generally managed to put forward the most attractive and distinctive candidates in a campaign in which many of the gubernatorial rivals were taking remarkably similar positions. Among the winners were Raul Castro, the first Chicano to be elected in Arizona; Jerry Apodaca, the first Spanish-surnamed candidate to win in New Mexico in 56 years; and Hawaii's George Ariyoshi, the first American of Japanese ancestry to reach a U.S. Governor's mansion...
...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...