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...letter, printed on stationery from the office of Arizona Governor Evan Mecham, could not have been more plaintive. Unless donors sent him $1.2 million within 45 days, Mecham wrote, he might be kicked out of office. Mailed to 25,000 conservatives across the country, the letter invited recipients to move to Arizona and help Mecham avoid "being crushed by the millions of dollars the militant liberals and the homosexual lobby plan to spend against...
When the editors of the Mesa Tribune in suburban Phoenix jumped into print early with copies of this week's Doonesbury cartoon strip, they knew they would be making news. The object of Artist Garry Trudeau's satire is Evan Mecham, Arizona's outspoken Republican Governor. The strips lampoon controversial remarks Mecham has made since taking office in January, including his description of recall-movement leaders as a "band of homosexuals and a few dissident Democrats." Mecham is not amused: he complained that the Doonesbury series "crossed the point of decency" and advised his lawyers to explore a possible libel...
...right-wing Republican, Mecham outraged civil rights leaders by rescinding the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Said Arizona House Minority Leader Art Hamilton, the state's most powerful black: "Mecham seems to have slept through the last 30 years of America." His appointments have infuriated opponents. The new head of the state liquor department is being investigated in connection with a 1954 killing. It turned out that Mecham's choice for a state investigator's post had been court-martialed twice while in the Marines. The new state education adviser stunned residents by proclaiming that teachers had no business...
...survey released last month by Arizona Pollster Earl de Berge, 44% rated Mecham's performance as "poor" or "very poor." Mecham professes to be unconcerned about criticism, but he may find it harder to brush off Ed Buck. A Phoenix businessman, Buck launched a recall campaign in January and distributed more than 25,000 MECHAM FOR EX-GOVERNOR bumper stickers. "He is a polarizing, divisive leader," Buck contends. Under state law, Buck must wait four more months before starting to collect the 216,746 signatures necessary to force a re-election. "I don't know who is paying him," Mecham...
That may be idle dreaming. A former Sunday-school teacher who has run so often for Governor that he earned the nickname the "Harold Stassen of Arizona," Mecham squeezed into office with 40% of the vote in a three-way race that split the Democratic electorate. He blames "abuse from the press" for his current problems, and as far as the recall campaign is concerned, the veteran auto dealer shows no sign of offering voters any sort of rebate, much less a brand-new model...