Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arkansas, two-term Governor Winthrop Rockefeller-the state's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction-spent an estimated $4,000,000 for re-election only to lose overwhelmingly to Democrat Dale Bumpers, a country lawyer from Charleston who turned back Orval Faubus' attempted comeback in the September primary. Rockefeller had been hamstrung for four years by a Democratic legislature; Bumpers promised to pull the state out of its mild stagnation. Crusty Rockefeller did himself no good by snapping back at a student who asked how much he was spending on reelection: "It's none of your damn business...
WEST VIRGINIA: Incumbent Senator Robert C. Byrd faces only token opposition from Republican Mayor of Charleston, Elmer H. Dodson. Dodson is only running because he says he feels the voters should have at least a semblence of a choice...
...that Birmingham's Bull Connor set dogs on the marchers. But it was as a behind-the-scenes man, a bargainer, that he made his mark. He helped to construct the settlements of racial disputes in Birmingham and Selma and was a negotiator in the hospital strike in Charleston; he was the mediator in Resurrection City who tried to unite blacks, Mexican Americans and Indians...
Controversial Past. Thus when Faubus accused Bumpers of being "a country clubber, a tuxedo boy, a highball-to-highball type," the image did not seem remotely apt. Charleston does not even have a country club. Faubus also tried to raise doubts about whether Bumpers believed in God. In what became known as "the Red Sea controversy," Faubus said that Bumpers had once told his Sunday school classes that some biblical scholars questioned whether God had actually parted the waters of the Red Sea. This gave Bumpers a perfect opportunity to affirm his faith for the sake of the fundamentalists...
...Carruth, who is running on the George Wallace-allied American Party ticket. Faubus' backing helps make Bumpers a clear favorite to unseat Rockefeller, whose administration has been locked in a stalemate with a Democratic-controlled legislature. Arkansas voters seem receptive to a fresh face. If they choose Bumpers, Charleston will be proud but also a bit sad. It will have to search for a new lawyer and city attorney...