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Political pros considered Brown too inexperienced and unbending to survive a tough campaign against such presumed heavyweights as San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and Assembly Speaker Robert Moretti. But Alioto got bogged down in municipal and marital strife while Moretti waged an inept campaign. Brown, talking vaguely about bringing a "new spirit" to Sacramento, campaigned on a safe liberal platform that stressed open government, campaign reform, and improved education and social benefits. In the end Brown won with 38% of the Democratic vote...
...will cost money. It is dangerous. People around here are not pros at this sort of thing. This is the sort of thing Mafia people can do: washing money, getting clean money and things like that. We just don't know about those things, because we are not criminals and not used to dealing in that business...
...some pros to help...
...Bucks hope to counter Havlicek's stellar performance with retiring Oscar Robertson who would like to go out of the pros not with a whimper but a bang...
...different concern: the vast sums of money that Bill will soon be offered to sign with the pros. "Bill has barely taken his first big steps in life," says his father. "There's no reason he shouldn't go to graduate school for a few years." In fact, Bill often talks of teaching as a career...