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Shortly before Bill Clements took office as Governor of Texas in January, he named a Dallas clergyman as his staff adviser on matters of morality. The appointment was unusual but not all that surprising: Clements has talked a lot about morality.
A wealthy Republican businessman who served as Governor from 1979 to 1983, Clements regained the office last November from Democrat Mark White, partly by accusing him of duplicity. As chairman of the board of governors of Southern Methodist University, a post he gave up when he took office in Austin...
Nor was that all. Within a week Board Chairman -- and Texas Governor-elect -- Bill Clements announced the abolition of special admissions that let in some 15 athletes a year with SAT scores as low as 700 (400 points below the norm). And Clements declared he was "dead serious" about dropping...
Many gubernatorial races were influenced more by special circumstances than by shifting party loyalties. Texas Republican Bill Clements won back his office from Mark White, the Democrat who had defeated him four years ago. Texas, moreover, suffers heavily from depressed oil prices, and White had the courage -- some might say...
White made his mistakes with his hand, signing an extremely unpopular tax hike and the "no pass, no play" bill that applies to high school athletes. Clements' mouth did its share of fumbling. Near the end of the campaign, Clements stated that the state's economic woes were not his...