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...unexpectedly defeated Robert Finch, former lieutenant governor of California and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Nixon, in the state primary this June...
...vote to win if he or she receives a solid black vote. One of the great significant changes has been the Southern blacks who have been voting nearly 100 per cent for liberals like Jimmy Carter, Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, and Gov. Cliff Finch of Mississippi. Southern Democrats now often look on a coalition of poor and working class whites and blacks as the central constituency of their party. Uncomfortable with the "New South" Democrats, the corporate establishment in most of the region has joined up with the Republicans, potentially setting up a type...
...Governors: Arkansas' Dale Bumpers, Florida's Reubin Askew, Mississippi's William Waller, South Carolina's John West, Louisiana's Edwin Edwards?and Jimmy Carter. They have since spawned a second generation. In Arkansas, Moderate David Pry or succeeded Bumpers as Governor, defeating old Segregationist Orval Faubus. In Mississippi, Cliff Finch, who uses a workingman's lunch pail as his political symbol, has followed Waller...
...people were being mistreated. Campaigning successfully for the U.S. Senate in 1970, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles walked a circuitous 1,003 well-publicized miles from Pensacola to Miami, chatting every step of the way with prospective voters about their problems. Last year, while running for Governor, Mississippi's Cliff Finch caught attention by spending a day a week working at such jobs as grocery-store clerk and bulldozer operator...
...that Bankers Trust not only was insured by, but owned 45% of American Savings. Heavy withdrawals began in the other nonfederally insured S & Ls, and by late June had developed into a full-fledged run on deposits. After conferring with Treasury Secretary William Simon, Mississippi Governor Charles ("Cliff') Finch proposed legislation freezing most business-no withdrawals, no loans-at the nonfederally insured S & Ls. The legislature hustled the bill through in its first emergency session since Hurricane Camille devastated the Gulf Coast...