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Applebome was joined by Unita Blackwell, former mayor of Mayersville, Miss. and a former IOP fellow; Gaston Caperton, former governor of West Virginia; Robin Hayes, recent Republican candidate for governor of North Carolin and Curtis Wilke, southern correspondent for the Boston Globe...
...certainly have our problems with Bubbas and our problems with poverty, but we are a part of the country which has certainly had some great leadership," said Caperton...
...Gaston Caperton, the former governor of West Virginia who revamped the state's education system despite voter opposition, led a workshop on education at the conference...
...Caperton] was willing to stick with what he believed as right despite being one of the most unpopular governors," said Abigail L. Hing '98. "He really saw what needed to get done and then did it, regardless of its implications...
Campbell says she would like to see all Governors, not just Caperton, take a close look at the cases of women currently serving time for killing a batterer. Some are already doing so. Two weeks ago, for instance, New Hampshire Governor Stephen Merrill and the state's executive council decided to pardon June Briand, who has served nearly 10 years of a 15-year-to-life sentence for shooting her abusive husband. "You want to approach these with the same skepticism as you would other cases," Campbell says, "but if there's evidence and we can apply the relatively...