Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was Lester Maddox, happily pouring coffee for 100 Georgia legislators just as if he were back at the Pickrick, his onetime restaurant. Maddox had good reason to be happy -and to pour for the legislators, who were at tending a forum on government at the University of Georgia. As a result of a decision handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Georgia legislature in January will bestow the state's governorship on either Democrat Maddox, 51, or Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, neither of whom received a majority in the November general election. The likely...
...decision led both Maddox and Callaway to step up their efforts to woo individual legislators, but the advantage obviously belongs to Maddox. All but 29 of the 259 assemblymen are Democrats, who are unlikely to give Georgia its first Republican Governor since 1872. Maddox boasted that he had assurances of at least 175 votes, said that only one legislator had refused him, "and he was drunk." Said Callaway: "I never thought that it would be easy for a Republican to become Governor of Georgia...
...Supreme Court has slashed through the Gordian knot of legal complications entangling the election of Georgia's next governor by ruling that the state legislature can choose between Democrat Lester G. Maddox and Republican Howard H. (Bo) Callaway. The deadlock, created when neither candidate gained an absolute majority in the general election, must be broken. But the way in which the Court has decided to settle the contest means that the candidate with fewer votes may emerge the winner, a result hardly consistent with some of the Court's other recent rulings...
Once the election has been thrown into the legislature, the legislators may support either candidate they wish -- no matter how the people of their district voted. In this case, the overwhelmingly rural-Democratic Georgia legislature will undoubtedly support Maddox, even though Callaway had a slight plurality in the general election...
Sorensen particularly deplored the fact that the Democrats had no "bright new faces emerging from this election -unless you count Lurleen Wallace and Lester Maddox," while the Republicans came up with a carload. "Let us be frank," he said; if men like Hatfield, Percy, Romney and half a dozen others "had the word Democrat after their names, we would be boasting about them as outstanding figures in today's political scene...