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...traditional Southern claghorn, Senator Strom Thurmond. Thurmond recently hired the former director of a black-voter registration project to run his home-state office in Columbia. Said one South Carolina politician: "Next to having that baby at age 68, it's the best thing Strom has done." Governors Reubin Askew of Florida, Dale Bumpers of Arkansas and Linwood Holton of Virginia are, like Carter and West, cut in the new moderate mold (see box, page...
...REUBIN ASKEW OF FLORIDA...
...Democratic vote centers of Southern Florida. His opponents in last year's Democratic primaries were State Senate President John Mathews, Attorney General Earl Faircloth and Dade County Mayor Chuck Hall, three of the best-known men in the state. In a high-rolling state that likes politicos with pizazz, Askew is a nonsmoking teetotaler who devotes most of his spare time to Presbyterian Church activities. Further, he ran on a platform of substantial tax reform that would cost big business many of its traditional tax breaks, and he chose as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor...
...Askew, 42, had quietly but forcefully built a solid strategic base during his twelve years in the state legislature. Though he represented the state's westernmost, ultraconservative district, he often sided on key issues with legislators from populous Southern Florida. While his district had a greater voice in the wildly malapportioned legislature than its population warranted, Askew was one of the leaders for reapportionment. He gained a reputation for sincerity and fair play; that, coupled with his promise of tough tax, welfare and prison reform measures, helped him through the primaries and then easily to whip incumbent Republican Governor Claude...
Says Bumpers: "My election and the victories of Governors Carter in Georgia, West in South Carolina and Askew in Florida weren't coincidences. There has been a cry for new leadership in the South...