Word: gantt
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...height of cockeyed optimism for anyone to try to unshoe him; yet not one, but two cockeyed optimists are contending in North Carolina's Democratic primary next week for the sporting honor of challenging the Senator when he runs for a fifth term in November. One is Harvey Gantt, an architect and former two-term mayor of Charlotte who pulled off a respectable 47% to Helms' 53% of the vote when he tried to dislodge Helms in 1990. The other is Charlie Sanders, a millionaire physician, educator, onetime pharmaceuticals executive and a newcomer to politics...
Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is recruiting millionaires who can self-finance their runs for the Senate. This has stirred controversy in North Carolina, where Republican war horse Jesse Helms looks vulnerable and Helms' 1990 foe, Harvey Gantt, wants to make another run at him. Gantt has edged ahead of Helms in recent polls, yet Kerrey has encouraged Charlie Sanders, a former Glaxo chief executive, to run. Insiders say Kerrey touted Sanders to big Democratic contributors at a recent retreat in Aspen, Colorado. Officially, a Kerrey spokesman says both Gantt and Sanders...
...Democratic primary may be necessary for N.C. Senate candidates, as former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt and State Schools SuperintendentBob Etheridge are also preparing to challengeHelms for the Senate seat...
...Gantt challenged Helms in the 1990 race, butonly captured 47 percent of the vote to Helms...
...divide. He grew up near Charlotte in a tin-roofed home with no electricity or running water. But he went on to law school at Yale and a career as a civil rights lawyer. He also got a bitter taste of politics when he managed former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt's ill-fated 1990 Senate race against Jesse Helms...