Word: reubin
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...week. A white boycott of Augusta, Ga., schools last week left classrooms virtually empty, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter endorsed a one-day, statewide boycott to be held next week in sympathy. The Florida legislature drafted an antibusing proposition to be voted on in the March 14 primary. Governor Reubin Askew countered by adding to the ballot a question asking Floridians, however they feel about busing, to assert their commitment to equal opportunity for all races. Thus a presidential primary will incorporate a referendum on busing and civil rights...
Square Stance. The Jackson campaign does not lack for funds. He expects to have raised and spent about $1,000,000 by early April, half of it in Florida. His television and press exposure in Florida is excellent; he has some strong labor backing, and important elements in Governor Reubin Askew's organization are supporting him. Jackson still stands at only 5% in the national polls, but in the last Quayle poll, taken in Florida in late December, he rose from 6% to 12%, only seven points behind Muskie (though the front runner, George Wallace, had a commanding...
Uphill Fight. Florida votes one week later, and the Jackson organization argues that a win is possible there. Aided by many of Governor Reubin Askew's key field workers, Jackson is strong and deeply grounded. He also has natural allies in the state's aerospace industry and a Jewish community grateful for his shrill arguments for more military aid to Israel. After Florida, the script becomes less precise. Most professionals give him very little chance of taking the nomination, and he is aware of that judgment. "It's hard to know how the building blocks are going...
...traditional Southern claghorn, Senator Strom Thurmond. Thurmond recently hired the former director of a black-voter registration project to run his home-state office in Columbia. Said one South Carolina politician: "Next to having that baby at age 68, it's the best thing Strom has done." Governors Reubin Askew of Florida, Dale Bumpers of Arkansas and Linwood Holton of Virginia are, like Carter and West, cut in the new moderate mold (see box, page...
...REUBIN ASKEW OF FLORIDA...