Word: babbitts
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Dubuque's annual small-college basketball tournament is drawing some far-flung spectators this year. Delaware Senator Joe Biden and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, who have more on their mind than hoopsters, decided it was the place to be on Sunday. Others are likewise discovering the joys of Iowa in January. New York Congressman Jack Kemp was there twice last week, and former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont is going there this week to tell farmers how he plans to phase out commodity price supports, then heading to New Hampshire for his fifth visit in five months...
...raise more than $3 million this year. Already potential contributors are scouting the field; in Phoenix this weekend, 36 Democratic donors who have formed a group called Impac '88 met to discuss uniting behind one candidate early on. Meanwhile, skeletal campaign organizations were adding expert meat to their bones. Babbitt last week became the first Democrat to form a full-fledged campaign committee. In the past fortnight senior strategists also took posts in the campaigns of Kemp, Du Pont, Gary Hart and Richard Gephardt...
...taken all that seriously by the Republican establishment. This time around, everyone assumed that Burton Barr, the G.O.P. leader of the house who had the personal backing of Ronald Reagan, would easily capture the nomination and probably go on to win the governorship that Democrat Bruce Babbitt is vacating...
Democrats, who seemed assured of winning the statehouse with only Mecham to worry about, were rattled by Schulz's late entry. Babbitt and Democratic leaders called a press conference last week to reaffirm their support for Warner. "I've never seen the party so united," said former Governor Sam Goddard. In fact, however, Democrats as well as Republicans helped Schulz get the signatures to run as an independent. The Democrats could be split so badly by the Schulz candidacy that Mecham just might slip into the governorship...
...Governors fret about losing control of the troops they like to think of as their own. More than half-a-dozen Governors have said they would rebuff Pentagon calls for Guardsmen to serve along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. Some, like Maine's Joseph Brennan and Arizona's Bruce Babbitt, are reluctant to help the Reagan Administration in its support of the contras. Most of the reservations, however, arise from the Governors' determination to retain full authority to use the Guard in such politically popular activities as patrolling areas devastated by storms or restoring order in violent strike or riot situations...