Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida Governor's race pitted two lavish campaigners against each other. Democrat Robert Graham, a millionaire Miami Lakes land developer and dairyman, spent $2.6 million. His Republican opponent, Jack Eckerd, who built a burgeoning chain of drugstores that bear his name, vowed to spend "whatever it takes" and ended up with a $2.9 million campaign, $2 million of which was his own. But Graham dispelled his wealthy Harvard image with a well-publicized series of 100 one-day stints at blue-collar jobs across the state. He won with a surprisingly large 56% of the vote...
...state's governorship. But his finances became a campaign issue: he was criticized for his dealings with Georgia Banker Bert Lance and for his hotshot banking practices. His campaign spending also became an issue. Charged Republican Alexander: "Citizens of this state won't let Jake Butcher buy the Governor's office." He was right...
...most interesting aspects of this year's Southern elections, and the most encouraging for the Democrats, is the emergence of fresh faces. Perhaps the brightest new light is Arkansas' William Clinton, a Yale Law School graduate and Rhodes scholar, who at 32 will be the nation's youngest Governor in 40 years. He worked on the McGovern and Carter campaigns and used his tenure as attorney general to fight for consumers. He is an anomaly for both Arkansas and 1978. He said he might ask for a state tax increase if food and drugs were exempted from the sales...
...biggest winner in the West last week was, in a sense, California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. With his stunning 1.3 million-vote victory over G.O.P. Challenger Evelle Younger, the state's attorney general, Brown greatly enhanced his stature as a politician with national clout and national aspirations...
Atiyeh, the son of Syrian immigrants, will be the nation's first Governor of Arab descent. In a vigorous grass-roots campaign, he traveled 40,000 miles, relentlessly calling for tax relief for homeowners. Straub apparently misread the antitax mood until very late in the campaign. Said Atiyeh after his victory: "I think the phrase from the movie Network covers what I've been hearing during this campaign: 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more...