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Ronald Reagan, who knows a thing or two about landslides, telephoned from the White House to confess to the triumphant candidate that he was "envious of your margin of victory." By a lopsided 2,166 votes to 799, Actor Clint - Eastwood, 55, had seized city hall in Carmelby-the-Sea (pop. 4,800) with about as much authority as his famous movie detective Dirty Harry uses in seizing bad guys. Incumbent Charlotte Townsend offered her concession about an hour after the polls had closed...
More traditional, though by now epidemic, is the celebrity candidate. In 1986 alone, there will be one Love Boat star, two Kennedys and a perfect-game pitcher (Jim Bunning, Philadelphia Phillies vs. New York Mets, June 21, 1964) running for Congress. Clint Eastwood ran for mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. (1 sq. mi., no street addresses, 67 art galleries, 40 jewelry stores) and won in a walk. And there have been near misses: in the past year, we have come close to seeing Harry Belafonte run for the Senate in New York, and Charlton Heston and Fess Parker...
...definitely riles Eastwood, a part owner of the town's funky hot spot, the Hog's Breath Inn. When he attempted to construct a new building adjacent to the Hog, as insiders call it, the village government turned him down. Dirty Harry would have handled it one way. Clint chose another. He threatened to sue, and the planning commission approved a modified design...
...dispute led to his newest role. Encouraged by a group headed by a saloonkeeper named Bud Allen, Eastwood stunned the town with his decision to run. Candidate Laub was stunned too but recovered quickly. He stocked CLINT FOR MAYOR T shirts in his stores, giving them only to customers who bought a LAUB FOR MAYOR shirt for $11.95. All of which has made grand entertainment for the camera crews and reporters drawn to Carmel from France, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and points between. The race has even become the target of a running satire in the comic strip Doonesbury...
Eastwood's campaign seems to have shaken the mayor. Waving a letter from a local woman, Townsend says, "There's a rumor that tour-bus companies are selling tickets to future city council meetings. It's not appropriate." Candidate Clint is not falling for any of that. On the tea-and-cracker circuit around town, he is setting forth his position on burning local issues like "second kitchens." A tradition in Carmel, second kitchens have been put in many cottages to allow older residents to live at home while renting out the rest of the house. A tough new ordinance...