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...Farmington, pop. 7,400, where logging and farming provide seasonal work and unemployment is twice the national average, pride runs deep. A handshake binds a contract almost as often as a signature. So when a local writer walked unannounced into the office of Franklin Memorial Hospital president Richard Batt to explain that he could not pay for his son's hospitalization, Batt wanted to help the man meet his obligation honorably. After agreeing to adjust the bill, Batt asked--in an afterthought really--if the writer would help rework the hospital's brochures. "It was a transforming experience," Batt says...
...every Friend of Bill's is in trouble this election cycle. Larry EchoHawk, who has actually posed for pictures with President Clinton, is leading the race for Governor of Idaho by about 15 points over his Republican opponent, Phil Batt, according to a statewide poll. If he wins, EchoHawk will become America's first Native American Governor. EchoHawk's strong showing is a major surprise because he is running for chief executive of a state that is largely Republican and white. EchoHawk, currently the state's attorney general, even favors gun control, anathema to many Idahoans...
...been friends with Clinton, but not always in agreement with him, ever since the two served on the Democratic National Committee's policy commission in the mid- 1980s. In the Idaho race, EchoHawk and his Republican rival have been sparring over who is the more conservative candidate. Batt likes to paint his opponent as a closet liberal and big spender. Says Batt: "When you come down to it, he's a ! Clinton Democrat, I'm a Reagan Republican, and there's a tremendous difference...
...same time, Batt charges that EchoHawk's ancestry is providing him with special advantages. "He gets attention because he comes from an unusual background," says Batt, a former Idaho lieutenant governor. "I don't get that kind of free media." Batt also charges that EchoHawk's campaign has received a lot of help from out of state. Actor Dustin Hoffman has reportedly donated...
Although, according to Ferry, DeMaiha and Harvard play a similar style of "push-the-batt-up" basketball, both players admit that they don't really have any special on-court chemistry together left over from high school days...