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...victory by a 2-to-l margin, his statewide exposure during the primary, and his campaign experience and organization will make Cramer a formidable candidate in November. He will face either former Governor Farris Bryant, 56, a conservative Democrat, or State Senator Lawton Chiles, 40, a bright young moderate who forced Bryant into a Sept. 29 runoff...
Governor Kirk, who with Gurney hatched the scheme to oust Cramer from his power perch in the state party, will not have the time or the inclination to resume the feud. The flamboyant Kirk will be fully occupied in trying to win a second four-year term for himself. To Kirk's consternation, Millionaire Druggist Jack Eckerd, an ardent Nixon supporter whose ideological bent is fully as conservative as Kirk's, got enough votes to compel a runoff. In Florida, incumbents who fail to win renomination by getting the necessary 50% of the initial primary vote usually lose...
Wife-Beating. Between 1964 and 1968, the money spent on spot political commercials more than doubled, while expenditures for longer productions stayed the same. Even a minute-long appearance by a candidate worries some managers. Jim Bertron, campaign manager for Republican William Cramer in Florida, thinks a 60-second spot could become refrigerator-visiting time. "You've got to grab them with those thirties," he says...
...Florida's William Cramer, 47, who in 1954 became the first Republican House member from his state since the Reconstruction, is now in a tough primary battle with George Harrold Carswell, Nixon's rejected Supreme Court nominee. The winner's Democratic opponent will be chosen in a September primary. The election is for the seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...
Then 1969. Yovicsin had gotten a bit older in recent years, and the enthusiasm which had so characterized him at first, had faded a bit. He and Cramer could not fire up the team, and the material never gelled. Even Yovicsin's heart was telling him that it was about time to do something else...