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...Tunney-come-lately" gibe from Spiro Agnew. He also exploits California's rising rate of unemployment, as high as 15% in some job categories, tells laboring men who are satisfied with that to vote for George Murphy. He keeps a generous distance between himself and Reagan's Democratic opponent, Jess Unruh, who now appears certain to lose...
...Your article, "The New Jess Unruh" [Sept. 14], was the first I'd heard that one of my cartoons was responsible for driving the California gubernatorial candidate to diet. ("After a political cartoon pictured him as a fat Buddha...
Today, at 47, Unruh wears well-tailored Italian suits and razor haircuts, holds his weight at a husky 190-200 Ibs., drinks moderately and counts his calories. He has also trimmed his name from Jesse to Jess. His opponents call the change only a minor victory of public relations. Says one enemy who is influential in California Democratic politics: "Hell, scratch him and there is the same old conniving Jesse Unruh. To know him is to hate him. Sure, he has to say there is a change. How else can he get elected...
High Risk. There have indeed been changes in Jess Unruh. He has a quiet, almost alarming candor that is not usually expected in a politician. His coarse yet sensitive face seems to communicate a new credibility. Because he has seen much of the seedy side of politics, and has been in on so many deals and schemes, he has the poignant aura of a sinner who has seen the light...
...change in the system" he knows so well by publishing an exposé. "I'll write," he threatens, "the damnedest book you ever read. I've been in on the deals, through the back doors. I know all about it." But, then, no one has ever doubted Jess Unruh's expertise...