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...MUSICAL. If you've been missing Evan Mecham, Arizona's malaprop Governor who alienated practically everybody until his impeachment in 1988, you can savor again those Archie Bunkeresque remarks about gays, "pickaninnies" and Martin Luther King Jr. in this musical satire by Tempe's Mill Avenue Theater...
...avert damage to the state economy, Arizona Governor Rose Mofford is suggesting that the legislature consider approving a King holiday. Backers are trying to organize another referendum; opponents vow they will start recall drives against legislators who vote pro-holiday. Meanwhile former Governor Evan Mecham, the man who rescinded the King holiday three years ago, has begun a boisterous fund-raising drive to keep the state calendar King-free...
...EVAN MECHAM...
With a small but dedicated following, Mecham would benefit if Annetta Conant swells the G.O.P. field to six. She is a former Evanista who pushed the legalization of Laetrile, the crackpot cancer cure, and secured a letter from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a fellow Arizonan) erroneously citing legal precedents for the Christian-nation resolution. The most recent entrant is ex-Congressman Sam Steiger, a rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and now electronic-equipment entrepreneur. He was convicted of extortion when he was an aide to Mecham, but it was overturned...
There are few second acts in American politics. Even in the anything-can- happen state, Mecham may be making only a cameo appearance. A Phoenix radio station ran a Mecham joke contest. One finalist: "What's a pickaninny?" "That's how Arizona elects a Governor...