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...California, earnestly competent San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, 48, won the Republican Senate nomination over three Congressmen-Barry Goldwater Jr. (a Senator's son), Pete McCloskey and Robert Dornan-and Maureen Reagan (a presidential daughter). Far ahead in the polls only six months ago, an overconfident Goldwater ran a lazy and lackluster campaign and finished a distant third with only 19% of the vote. Governor Jerry Brown won the Democratic Senate nomination, but it was not an impressive victory. He captured only 51% of the ballots cast, giving up 15% to Author Gore Vidal, 15% to little-known State...
...front runners in the fight to take over Hayakawa's seat-Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. (son of the former California Governor) and Representative Barry Goldwater Jr. (son of the current Arizona Senator). At the moment, possible Senate candidates also include moderate Congressman Pete McCloskey, conservative Congressmen Robert Dornan and John Rousselot, and San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson. Mervin Field's California Poll last week gave Maureen Reagan only 7% of the vote...
...issues have been obscured in the race by mud as thick as a Los Angeles slide. Dornan is an expert slinger; he has called Peck "a sick, pompous little ass" who is a "Daddy's boy looking for something to do." Early in the campaign, Dornan charged that Peck in 1978 accepted an illegal campaign contribution from an Alabama businessman who is in federal prison for fraud. The charge backfired: the businessman did try to contribute $13,000, but Peck eventually returned the checks. Peck faults Dornan for his membership, now terminated, on the advisory board of the right...
...Although Dornan and Peck debated 17 times in 1978, there have been only two this year. At one of the forums, Peck demanded an apology from his opponent for his campaign attacks. Dornan responded by slapping a coin down on the table: "Here's a dime, character. Use it to call and congratulate...
Peck may get to keep that dime. Dornan's tactics have turned off voters and helped win Peck the endorsement of Dornan's predecessor, eight-term Republican Alphonzo Bell, who stayed neutral in 1978. He now criticizes Dornan's "extremist, right-wing viewpoints." Although Dornan and Peck are running about even in the polls, political experts give Peck a good shot at pulling ahead...