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For the President, the numbers of party victories were less troubling than the particular winners and losers. Potentially strong Republicans had captured key governorships: Richard Thornburgh in Pennsylvania, William Clements in Texas, Lee Dreyfus in Wisconsin. Republican Jim Rhodes remained in control of the Ohio statehouse, and Bill Milliken was...
Democrats also lost two hotly contested gubernatorial races. Carter stumped for wheeler-dealer Banker Jake in Tennessee, but he was upset by Republican Lamar Alexander, who walked 1,000 miles across the state to conquer his reputation for aloofness. Texas activist Attorney General John Hill, who had toppled Governor Dolph...
While candidates across the South repeatedly denounced high government spending, they were less critical of campaign spending. The old Confederacy was awash with money, much of it from the candidates' own deep pockets. Thirty years ago, Clements founded an oil-drilling firm that made him one of Texas' richest men...
Increasingly, voters seem to be turning to relatively obscure businessmen to run state governments. A variety of millionaires won victories in this year's gubernatorial primaries: Democrats Robert Graham in Florida and Jake Butcher in Tennessee; Republicans William Clements in Texas and Jack Eckerd in Florida. "I am not a...
TEXAS. Again a personality clash between two conservative candidates. "I think the race is getting to be more fun all the time," says William Clements, the multimillionaire oil-drilling contractor who is running for Governor. Clements' idea of fun is to skewer his Democratic opponent, Texas Attorney General John Hill...