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Those links were dramatically evident during Martinez's losing bid for re- election against former Senator Lawton Chiles. The G.O.P. campaign was headed by the President's son, Jeb Bush, a Miami real estate executive who once served Martinez as the state's secretary of commerce. The President himself visited Florida several times to stump for Martinez. First Lady Barbara even made campaign commercials...
...Republican Bob Martinez wanted to be re-elected Governor, he had an odd way of going about it. He infuriated taxpayers by reneging on his promise not to raise taxes. He alienated many women by trying to impose strict limits on abortion. That played into the hands of Lawton Chiles, a former three-term U.S. Senator, who surfaced after a 15-month hiatus from politics to mount a corny but believable populist bid for the state capitol...
...lack of money to define your image. In Florida, former Senator Lawton Chiles defeated Republican incumbent Bob Martinez in the governor's race with an appeal against the influence of money in politics. Chiles gambled by limiting individual campaign contributions to $100; on the other side, Martinez worked with a $10 million campaign treasury. By making clear his views about money in politics and translating those views into practice. Chiles gained the advantage in money despite having less...
Democrats elected Ann Richards as governor of Texas and Lawton Chiles in Florida, giving them the last word in redistricting that will add House seats to both Sunbelt states for the next decade...
...states candidates have backed away from attack politics after their assaults backfired. Floridians had every reason to expect a barrage of negative campaigning between Republican Governor Bob Martinez and his Democratic challenger, Lawton Chiles. But when the Martinez camp aired TV spots misrepresenting Chiles' U.S. Senate record on Social Security increases, voters reacted angrily. Says Martinez's adviser, David Hill: "We were trying to tiptoe into the waters of negative advertising, and the shark swam up and bit us." The result: a relatively serene campaign focusing on the candidates' records...