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...lost. When his audience seemed less sophisticated, George spelled it out: "the black bloc vote." His newspaper ads bluntly urged whites to "vote for your own kind." Vicious rumors also were spread-apparently without Wallace's approval and certainly without any foundation-about the sex lives of Brewer, his wife and two daughters. Mrs. Brewer broke into tears in a Montgomery department store after hearing some of the stories...
...runoff in 1962 and the 237,000 by which his late wife Lurleen won the Democratic primary for Governor in 1966. More than half a million voters refused to go along with George this time, although possibly half of those were blacks. In one black precinct in Jefferson County, Brewer's margin was 2,149 to 24; in a Montgomery precinct, it was 2,829 to 227. The Governor's other strength came mainly from affluent suburbs and middle-and upper-class white neighborhoods of large cities, where the new, enlightened Alabama is taking shape. The decisive vote...
...Brewer, a calm, effective but unexciting Governor, must bear some of the blame for his loss. After shocking Wallace by topping him in the seven-man Democratic primary last month, Brewer campaigned for the runoff in such a low-keyed manner that Wallace grabbed all of the attention. A racial moderate -from the Southern viewpoint-Brewer had no desire to embrace the black vote openly or to engage in racial arguments with Wallace. His strategy was a lofty "Mr. Clean" approach that even ruled out attacks on the previous Wallace administrations. "You can't fight Wallace with one hand...
Good Grief. Brewer was content to argue that Wallace would be only a part-time Governor while seeking the presidency. He promised to cut auto-license fees from $13 to $3 and to remove the state sales tax fronr drugs and medicines, calling them "a tax on pain and misery." His ads sometimes replied to Wallace attacks with such opening lines as "Good grief, Mr. Wallace," which sounds sissified in Alabama. His toughest stand was to charge indirectly that a Wallace administration might become a corrupt one, telling voters that "political hacks are trying to defeat me because they want...
...there was no way for Brewer to outpromise Wallace, who embraced the Brewer pledges and also proposed, among other things, to lower automobile-insurance rates, reduce the cost of gas, telephones and electricity, erect new medical schools and build four-lane highways in rural areas. He even implied that he would eliminate the sales tax on food, which would cost the state about $55 million in annual revenue...