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Ellis said he sees the presidential election of 1996 being battled out in California, with the Republicans turning to Gov. Pete Wilson as a Vice Presidential candidate to help on that score...
...kept talking by phone to negotiator Pete Weireter about his successes and disappointments, about his demands. Your children need you, Weireter said, be cool, just relax. O.J. wanted to talk to his mother, who had been checked into a San Francisco hospital for stress. Pete said he could once he was inside. Call her; use the bathroom; get something to drink. O.J. wanted to be able to walk into his house. The cops promised not to tackle him. He wanted...
...support more centrist candidates and positions. At its state convention two years ago, the California G.O.P. tore itself apart over whether to adopt a strict antiabortion plank. The conservatives won, but in the November election G.O.P. candidates were mowed down by the voters. This year, to avoid hobbling Governor Pete Wilson in his race against Democrat Kathleen Brown, Christians agreed to a softer abortion platform. Religious conservatives are looking for centrists to meet them halfway by supporting candidates like North and Quist, even if they appear to be potential losers in the general election. "If you're only there...
...voice -- soft one moment, steely the next -- it is assured, bare-knuckle rock 'n' roll. Part of the credit goes to the sturdy rhythm work of returning drummer Martin Chambers, an original Pretender who left the band in 1986 (the other two charter bandmates, James Honeyman Scott and Pete Farndon, died of drug overdoses...
...only one major incumbent defeated. South Dakota Governor Walter Miller lost his job to former Governor William Janklow, who will now lead the state Republican ticket. In California, state treasurer Kathleen Brown, the daughter and sister of two former Democratic Governors, won the right to run against Republican Governor Pete Wilson; in the state's Senate race, Republicans picked Representative Michael Huffington to battle Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein in what many are predicting could end up the most expensive Senate contest in history...