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...Earl de Berge, 44% rated Mecham's performance as "poor" or "very poor." Mecham professes to be unconcerned about criticism, but he may find it harder to brush off Ed Buck. A Phoenix businessman, Buck launched a recall campaign in January and distributed more than 25,000 MECHAM FOR EX-GOVERNOR bumper stickers. "He is a polarizing, divisive leader," Buck contends. Under state law, Buck must wait four more months before starting to collect the 216,746 signatures necessary to force a re-election. "I don't know who is paying him," Mecham says dismissively. Even if the drive falters...
...selecting Richard Thornburgh, ex-governor of Pennsylvania who was constitutionally required to resign this January, the IOP has made a "change of emphasis" to "encourage students who are preparing themselves to take a fly at elective office," said Littauer Professor of Public Administration Richard Neustadt, a leading presidential scholar and key member of the selection committee...
...trio of tabbies joined six horses, five dogs, four ducks and two rabbits. The impressive collection of critters has evolved more or less spontaneously. Two of the most senior Reagan pets are dogs that date back to his days as an ex-Governor and a President-in-waitin g. Millie, a Labrador- setter mix, came in the '70s with Lee Clearwater, a caretaker of Rancho del Cielo who died last year; next Taka, a purebred Husky, was given to the Reagans by friends. During the 1980 presidential race, an admiring Wisconsin couple presented the Reagans with Victory, a golden retriever...
...young black man to be alone at night. And if anybody had ever said, 'Son, you better slow down in Georgia, you're going to represent Georgia in the Congress of the United States; you're going to be an Ambassador to the United Nations, named by an ex-Governor of Georgia who's going to be President of the United States; and then you will come back to be mayor of the city of Atlanta' -- the only thing I could have done would be to recommend them to the nearest mental institution...
After withdrawing from the 1978 gubernatorial race, ex-Governor Blanton was sentenced to three years and fined $ 11,000 for taking kickbacks on state liquor licenses to political favorites. The hard-drinking demagogue blames much of his trouble on Marie: "She's the only woman who ever screwed me before I had a chance to screw...