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...Arkansas, two-term Governor Winthrop Rockefeller-the state's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction-spent an estimated $4,000,000 for re-election only to lose overwhelmingly to Democrat Dale Bumpers, a country lawyer from Charleston who turned back Orval Faubus' attempted comeback in the September primary. Rockefeller had been hamstrung for four years by a Democratic legislature; Bumpers promised to pull the state out of its mild stagnation. Crusty Rockefeller did himself no good by snapping back at a student who asked how much he was spending on reelection: "It's none of your damn business...
...increase in property taxes. Kirk's counterthrusts are characteristic: Askew is an ultra liberal and a "Goody Two-shoes powder puff." The race is considered close, win a third. Democrat Dale Bumpers, a Sunday-school teacher and political neophyte who polished off former six-term Governor Orval Faubus in the primary, is conducting a low-key campaign almost as if he were certain of victory. By contrast, Rockefeller is covering the state in jet-powered helicopters and spending money in the Rockefeller manner in a sometimes frenetic bid to stay in office. As Nov. 3 draws near, there appears...
Controversial Past. Thus when Faubus accused Bumpers of being "a country clubber, a tuxedo boy, a highball-to-highball type," the image did not seem remotely apt. Charleston does not even have a country club. Faubus also tried to raise doubts about whether Bumpers believed in God. In what became known as "the Red Sea controversy," Faubus said that Bumpers had once told his Sunday school classes that some biblical scholars questioned whether God had actually parted the waters of the Red Sea. This gave Bumpers a perfect opportunity to affirm his faith for the sake of the fundamentalists...
Bumpers raised no questions about Faubus' controversial past, but he did not need to do so. Faubus suffered from the memory of a sordid prison system exposed shortly after he left office and a scandal involving a savings and loan firm run by his cronies. Faubus, 60, campaigned with his 31-year-old bride Elizabeth at his side, a silent reminder that last year he divorced his first wife Alta after 37 years of marriage. The embittered Alta, 57, at first threatened to enter the race against him, but confined herself to warning voters not to trust his campaign...
Although hurt and angry over his loss, Faubus urged his supporters to get behind Bumpers in the race against two-term Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and Walter Carruth, who is running on the George Wallace-allied American Party ticket. Faubus' backing helps make Bumpers a clear favorite to unseat Rockefeller, whose administration has been locked in a stalemate with a Democratic-controlled legislature. Arkansas voters seem receptive to a fresh face. If they choose Bumpers, Charleston will be proud but also a bit sad. It will have to search for a new lawyer and city attorney...