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Fumbles. That freed Percy to turn his fulltime attention and limitless energies to his campaign against Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, 56, a handsome, likable man who was hand-picked by Chicago's Boss Daley. As Governor since 1960, Kerner has a good record on civil rights, can point to advances in the field of mental health, savings in Illinois' huge public-aid expenditures. But he has fumbled badly in efforts to reform Illinois' archaic tax structure, and not even his fellow Democrats would accuse him of being a dynamic leader. Said onetime Chicago Boss Jake Arvey recently...
Packaging Johnson. Kennedy's opponent, Senator Kenneth Keating, last week hired small Weiss & Geller to handle his ads. In Chicago, Needham, Louis & Brorby is carrying the banner of Republican Charles Percy against Governor Otto Kerner's agency, Kennedy & Heyne; in California, Pierre Salinger has engaged the Walter Leftwich Organization against George Murphy's Sanford Weiner. Other candidates dispense their business to home-state agencies, almost as a form of patronage, and many also take on public-relations agencies to prepare press kits, write speeches and help the campaign manager form the candidate's image...
What a mess! Required by constitutional amendment to redraw Illinois' political districts, the state legislature fussed and fought, finally had the only redistricting bill that it did pass vetoed by Democratic Governor Otto Kerner. Result: this year candidates for all 177 seats in the Illinois assembly must run in a statewide, at-large election. Moreover, a Republican-Democratic agreement since regularized by law prohibits either party from nominating more than 118 candidates-amounting precisely to a two-thirds assembly majority...
Confusing? Worse than that. Chaotic. But in that chaos, former Bell & Howell Board Chairman Charles Percy, 44, the G.O.P. nominee for Governor against Kerner, saw opportunity. He reached for it in a fashion that should disprove the notion that youthful, well-scrubbed, idealistic Chuck Percy is more an Eagle Scout than a tough politician...
...OTTO KERNER Governor of Illinois Springfield...