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...Robert Scheer, who looks like a fat cat New York hippie in his three-piece suits and polished Italian boots, won 45 percent of the vote in California's seventh district in the June primary election. Since then, he has been quizzed about how it happened, and urged to run for the U.S. Senate or at least the Berkeley City Council; he has also become an ornament for the New Left...
...Scheer spent the pre-election weekend in Cambridge, and was wined, dined, and shown off by Harvard's own eager, aspiring radicals. He confronted -- somewhat unwillingly -- audiences of skeptical, composed undergraduates, and convinced many that the "New Politics" should be taken seriously...
...Scheer wasn't especially committed to converting Easterners. He broke appointments, miffed Kennedy Institute fellows and Mass. PAX members, and seemed most intent on finding some "decent food" so he could finish his restaurants column for Ramparts. And, in the end, he skipped out on several engagements, pronounced Harvard students "too cool" and Harvard "boring," and went drinking with a pal from Ramparts...
Speaking before an audience, Scheer is not as obscene, off-hand, or ungrammatical as he is with two or three people; he considers even hostile questions for a long time and insists on giving complete answers. He is almost earnest, in fact, about what radicals can do in politics, and seems genuinely to care about "participatory democracy...
...Scheer's open appeal to Negroes and lower class whites probably alienated many Berkeley faculty members. "The Cal people didn't like me finding lawyers for Oakland winos and providing community services, like the old Tammany Hall," he says. "They said they couldn't vote for me because 'undesirables' were taking over my campaign. I figured my campaign wasn't enough of a glorious symbol for them...