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...Finch's election in 1975 was a signal that the long era of irrationality in Mississippi gubernatorial races was not yet at an end. In that race he defeated William Winter in the Democratic primary and Gil Carmichael in the general election. Both opponents are among the most intelligent, articulate and truly progressive leaders the state had to offer...
...without Nixon's support and that Eastland was one of the most powerfully established political figures in the state. In the 1975 race, Carmichael outlined rational and workable plans for improving the state. While he was doing this and Winter was voluntarily disclosing income tax returns, Finch was bagging groceries, refusing open press conferences and debates, and criticizing Winter for not disclosing more, even though he had himself disclosed nothing...
...disclosed his income, it may have come as a shock to his poor people's alliance. Finch is hardly a working man. He is a wealthy trial lawyer, whose income by the most conservative estimates was $60,000 the year before his election...
...easy to understand Finch's appeal to the poor: He tells them what they want to hear. Mississippians are, on the average, so poor, and so tired of being reminded of it that they will listen to anyone who will tell them differently or promise to change it. Combined with this is an extremely low level of education, and when a campaign as slick as was Finch's (again, one can only wonder where the money came from) hit them, it was natural to fall...
...cannot change the election of Cliff Finch; it was legal and is over. But we do not have to go along with what he has done (or not done) and try to say, for optimism's sake, that it was good. Instead, we can expose him as what he is--a political animal of the worst sort, one who knows how to appeal to people's emotions rather than to their senses, one whose actions indicate only a desire for self-perpetuation, a follower elected to a position of leadership...