Word: hiestand
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Democrats, of course, play the reapportionment game, too. Victims of Democratic legislatures include Edgar Hiestand and John Rousselot, both California Republicans and members of the John Birch Society. These two were eliminated although they each represented almost a million constituents and, before 1962, won by large majorities. The legislature placed each of the Birchers' residences in smaller, more Democratic areas, and they were both defeated...
...Democratic voting advantage of some 47,000 in his new downtown Los Angeles district was too much to overcome: he lost by nearly 17,000 votes to Los Angeles Councilman Edward Royhal, a liberal who plugged medicare. In a swirl of libel suits, the bitter campaign of Republican Edgar Hiestand and Los Angeles Councilman Everett Burkhalter centered around Hiestand's membership in the John Birch Society. Hiestand lost. Another Bircher, smooth-talking Republican John Rousselot, also found the society plus a new district a politically fatal combination, succumbed to Assemblyman Ronald Brooks Cameron...
...rocking chair.' " His opponent, conservative Democrat John Sutton, seems to have no answer, complains: "If I get beat, it'll be because he's the best TV personality I've ever seen." In California, Republican Congressmen John Rousselot and Edgar Hiestand have been demanding action on Cuba, still may lose because of redistricting and their membership in the John Birch Society...
...Congressmen agreed. In Los Angeles, Arizona's Barry Goldwater said: "A lot of people in my home town have been attracted to the society, and I am impressed by the type of people in it. They are the kind we need in politics." Republican Congressman Edgar Hiestand of California called the attacks "a pro-Communist smear," proudly noted that both he and John Rousselot, another California Republican, are Birchers. Ohio Republican Gordon Scherer, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, said that although he was not a member, he "looked favorably on this organization...
...California Democrats Dalip S. Saund, the only Hindu in Congress (he was born in Amritsar, India, is a naturalized American), and Jimmy Roosevelt were both reelected. Rudd Brown, granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan, failed in her second attempt to unseat Republican Edgar W. Hiestand...