Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Government Martin Kilson argued that Blacks have the potential for political power but often fail to exercise if in elections, citing the recent defeat of Tom Bradley, the Black mayor of Los Angeles, in the California governor's race...
...West was dominated by two races in California. In a convoluted battle of personalities, Republican Gubernatorial Candidate George Deukmejian focused his attacks on the outgoing Democrat, Jerry Brown, despite reminders from Democrat Tom Bradley that he, Bradley, was the opponent. Brown, in turn, aimed most of his attacks at Reagan, except one tactical nuclear assault on Republican Opponent Pete Wilson, who he implied was in favor of the nuclear-arms race. It ended up a G.O.P. sweep...
CALIFORNIA. Tom Bradley's victory was to have been cause for national self-congratulation: the Los Angeles mayor would have become the country's first elected black Governor. But Democrat Bradley, 64, lost narrowly to the state's stern attorney general, Republican George Deukmejian, 54, who established a modest bench mark of his own: he is the first Governor of Armenian parentage...
...Bradley beaten because of his race? Probably. California Pollster Mervin Field found that "race was a major factor." The margin, in any case, was slight, 52,000 out of 7.4 million votes...
Deukmejian, with his law-and-order reputation, may have benefited from the large number of right-wingers drawn to the polls to defeat a handgun-control initiative. Deukmejian portrayed Bradley as a coddler of crooks, despite the mayor's 21 years as a Los Angeles policeman, and concentrated on the crime-and-punishment issues. Bradley, meanwhile, talked earnestly and almost exclusively about unemployment. It was not enough...