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...both contests the lesson was the same: it's fun to be a bomb thrower until the bomb blows up in your face. Texas Republican Clayton Williams squandered his lead over state treasurer Ann Richards with an unending stream of bloopers. He called Richards a liar and refused to shake her hand. His doom was sealed in the closing days of the campaign when he not only revealed that he was ignorant of the only constitutional amendment on the ballot but also admitted that he had paid no income taxes in 1986, even though he is a multimillionaire. Williams' gaffes...
Watch your opponent self-destruct despite big bucks. Clayton Williams, Republican candidate for governor in Texas, spent more money in his campaign than most people would know what to do with--$9 million of his own fortune and $20 million altogether. Tom Luce, a fellow at the Institute of Politics who lost the Republican primary to Williams, said that Williams privately acknowledged that he intended to buy the Republican primary...
When Sidey said he believed Clayton Williams would defeat former Texas Treasurer Ann Richards in the race for Texas governor, he admitted that more unconventional factors entered his thinking...
...recent months, Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter Jr., Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan and some in Congress have suggested amending the law and letting the God Squad make the toughest calls. That would be the effective demise of the act. The Senate last week defeated a measure that would have empowered the God Squad to settle the dispute over timbering the ancient forests. But the broader question remains. Ruling on a species' fate has eternal consequences. A political appointee's vision dims beyond the next election. Matters of such gravity ought to reflect society's broadest interests. Biologists, environmentalists, theologians, historians...
Five months ago, Clayton Williams, Republican candidate for Governor of Texas, took a pledge: "No more mud." His Democratic rival, state treasurer Ann Richards, said amen to the goal of a clean campaign. Those good intentions lasted no longer than a firefly's twinkle. No sooner had the vows been made than both candidates began hurling misleading accusations, tossing insults and making absurd pledges of no new taxes in a state facing a budget deficit of at least $3 billion...