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...professional politician, Donald Dworak is used to fielding hostile questions of the have-you-stopped-beat-ing-your-wife variety. But this is worse by far-unfair, underhanded, unAmerican...
Bathed in the bright glare of television lights, he squirms nervously, kneading his hands together tightly, his knuckles whitening. Dworak, a second-term state senator from Nebraska who is considering a run for Governor, manages credible and even convincing answers to probing questions on water policy, a prime concern to Nebraska farmers. But then comes a change-up from his questioner. "What's your favorite color?" Dworak starts to stammer a confused response and finally breaks up in laughter on-camera. "Remember," admonishes the unamused interviewer, "be ready for anything...
...take for granted a solid blue-collar base or mass backing from minorities. The voter has become increasingly independent of party labels, a finicky comparison shopper among parties, candidates and issues. There are new techniques for wooing this voter, methods so far used most effectively by the Republicans. Don Dworak realizes this all too well. He was a Republican before switching parties earlier this year. For Democrats, even newly minted ones like Don Dworak, this is the first day of school...
Until Sorensen took over, Omaha had experienced four of the stormiest years in its political history. Under James J. Dworak, a bow-tied mortician before he became mayor in 1961, the city's pressing problems, from slum housing to rotting sewage pipes, were left to marinate in what the Omaha World-Herald called a "swamp of stagnation." Dworak's reign was marked instead by feuding with the police department, the mayor's indictment on charges of soliciting a $25,000 bribe (he was acquitted), an unsuccessful recall movement, and such ludicrous controversies as a hassle over...
Changed Climate. A millionaire electrical-equipment dealer, Sorensen served a stint as president of the city council from 1957 to 1961, then dropped out of politics. He was persuaded to come out of retirement to oppose Dworak in the city's nonpartisan mayoral election, handily won with 62.5% of the vote. One of Sorensen's first actions was a dramatic and symbolic one: he sold Omaha's crumbling, 75-year-old City Hall to the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, moved city workers into an abandoned Elks building, and launched plans...