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...John Maddox is the author of What Remains to Be Discovered
Georgia had Lester Maddox and Louisiana had Earl Long, and now Minnesota has gone and got an interesting Governor of our own: a pro wrestler with a shaved head and a bad-boy swagger whose voice is hoarse from bellowing at opponents and threatening to rip their arms from their sockets. He was the protest candidate, a chance to throw toilet paper in the trees and piss off Dad, nobody dreaming he would actually be elected. But in a three-way race the ball takes funny bounces, and that is how Minnesota...
...such a degrading fantasy, herself as garbage. But the unambiguous casualty was a white assistant prosecutor from Dutchess County named Steven Pagones. Tawana's was not a harmless lie. Once the story went public, it attracted three professional race men named C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox and Al Sharpton, lawyers who arrived to work as Tawana's handlers and to demagogue the case in the media. The three identified Pagones as one of the white rapists. Pagones has spent 10 years trying to clear his name...
...most Marylanders seem to back their Governor's tough-minded approach. Nowhere is support stronger than along the water. Fred Maddox, who has been fishing in the area around Shelltown since the 1930s, reaches into a desk in his seafood-company office and pulls out a grim photographic record of Pfiesteria's impact. "Here's a rockfish with its mouth all messed up," he says. "Here's a carp with lesions on its side. Here's one with its nose all messed up." The state needs to limit agricultural runoff before the problem gets any worse, Maddox says...
...Maddox's initiative put the fate of rent control to a statewide popular vote: a yes for Question Nine meant a vote to abolish rent control...