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California BROWN v. FLOURNOY In another year, facing an opponent with a less familiar name, Houston I. ("Hugh") Flournoy, 45, might have been a different candidate in a different kind of race...
...passionate issue in this campaign," he declares. Nor does he display much passion himself except in infrequent face-to-face encounters with Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown Jr., 36, in which he emerges as a match for the front runner. "Sometimes I wish I had an electric prod," says a Flournoy staffer. "Hugh is so good. But he comes on like Sominex...
While Brown was making his victory statement on TV and promising to bring a "new spirit" to Sacramento, his performance was being closely appraised by the Republican candidate who had also won that evening, State Controller Houston Flournoy. "What a crock," Flournoy muttered to no one in particular and then went downstairs to make his own TV appearance...
...Brown's ego trip is politics, and sometimes, he appears to be feuding as bitterly with his fellow Democrats as with Flournoy. He is running almost entirely on his own; his ticket mates rarely appear on the same platform or billboard. To finance his campaign, he depends upon contributions, almost all of which he raises without the help of his father. Total tab for the primary and main race: $2.5 million. No fewer than four of his aides carefully check every donation to make sure it carries no stain of scandal...
Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown, 36, the son of ex-Governor (1959-66) Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown. Now California's secretary of state, Brown has frequently put Houston Flournoy, 45, the state's able controller, on the defensive...