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...Tennessee. Brock still led narrowly in the polls when Sasser attacked his failure to disclose his finances; heir to a candy fortune, Brock was described by Sasser as "the candy man from Lookout Mountain." Fighting back, Brock tried to link Sasser to miniscandals in the administration of Governor Ray Blanton, but the ploy flopped...
...fallible selection," and in some ways it was. One of the 200 is now in jail for income tax evasion (New York City Councilman Matthew Troy). Some lost elections-but are doing well in other pursuits (Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander, who lost the 1974 gubernatorial race to Democrat Ray Blanton, is now a television commentator; Minneapolis Mayor Albert Hofstede, edged out by Charles Stenvig in 1975, is a bank vice president...
...readily admits, the fight is still very much uphill. His opponent in the fall will certainly have more money, the district is largely upper-middle class and staunchly Republican, and Loegering's campaign staff is composed entirely of volunteers working part-time, save for his campaign manager, Thomas S. Blanton '77, a full time volunteer and former roommate who is also taking a year...
...names: Mayor Abe Beame was aboard, one said, and that would help with the Jewish voters, and Chicago's Dick Daley was issuing compliments. Staffer Rick Hutchinson, who at 24 looks like one of the painters of Tom Sawyer's fence, spoke of Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton being the key to that state's uncommitted bloc and the chances he would deliver its nine delegates. There was talk about Alaska's Mike Gravel endorsing, and the need to work on Hawaii Senator Dan Inouye. Perhaps Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, a close friend of Inouye, would help...
...profiles of the candidates were written by: Thomas S. Blanton, David N. Carvalho, Stephen J. Chapman, James J. Cramer, Henry Griggs, David B. Hilder, Thomas W. Janes, Daniel E. Larkin and Charles E. Shepherd...