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...started it," claimed Texas attorney general Jim Mattox, pictured in political cartoons as the aging "Mutant Ninja Candidate." "No, he started it," says state treasurer Ann Richards, the winner of last Tuesday's mud- splattered, swamp-dwelling Texas Democratic gubernatorial runoff...
Whoever threw the first punch, the race that just ended may win the prize as the most negative one ever, even nastier than anything served up in the 1988 presidential campaign. Mattox, whose campaign slogan was "Texas Tough," accused Richards, a silver-haired grandmother and recovering alcoholic, of being a marijuana-smoking cokehead when she was Travis County commissioner more than a decade ago. She accused him of financial shenanigans, including taking a large campaign contribution from a savings and loan operative. In a television ad, Richards also brought up Mattox's 1984 indictment on a bribery charge, without mentioning...
...During the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Texas early in March, former Governor Mark White and state Attorney General James Mattox boasted of the number of successful executions they had furthered. Though state Treasurer Ann Richards also supports the death penalty, she had to labor under the disadvantage of having been endorsed by editors of a newspaper produced by death-row inmates at the state prison in Huntsville. With Mattox and Richards set to face each other again in a runoff election in April, the issue is sure to loom large. "Maybe the next step will be scratch-and-sniff...
...voodoo-practicing cult of drug smugglers who believed that orgies of human sacrifice would win satanic protection for its 2,000-lb.-a-week marijuana-running operation to the U.S. "They felt that all the killing would draw a protective shield around them," observed Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox. "It was religious craziness...
Elisa D. Sader '89, one of Mattox's charges, shared his sentiments. "You learn that the upperclassmen aren't so intimidating," she said. "They tell you what their opinions of the courses are, and what classes their friends have liked. It's just like talking to another...