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Chiles, 60, is no outsider: his folksy, populist style and low-budget campaigns are hallmarks of a career in politics that ranks as one of the most successful in Sunshine State history. A former three-term U.S. Senator, the Democrat has come out of retirement to try to oust incumbent Republican Governor Bob Martinez. In an era when massive campaign war chests, 30-second television spots and hired image makers define and often decide elections, Chiles is banking on the strength of his own reputation to carry him to the statehouse...
...these issues could hold Washington's attention for long last week. The topic dominating front pages and TV news broadcasts, gossip on the Metro and at the State Department was a fuzzy 83-minute black-and-white videotape played at the trial of Marion Barry. It showed the three-term mayor of the nation's capital rolling around on a bed in a downtown hotel room with a former girlfriend who had invited him there, inhaling twice from a pipe filled ; with crack cocaine and, finally, handcuffed and surrounded by police and FBI agents, muttering over and over, "Goddam...
...then in the midst of a bitter mayoral campaign pitting three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch against a black challenger, Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, came the murder of Yusuf Hawkins. He was a 16-year- old black who with a group of friends ventured into the tightly knit, mostly Italian Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to inspect a used car. They were set upon by a gang of whites armed with baseball bats and a gun. When the melee was over, Hawkins lay dead with two bullet wounds in his chest...
...shoulder: a double-hyphenated Lebanese- and Greek-American, born in Havana with a funny name. Bush pointedly ignored the protests of such close advisers as Secretary of State James Baker, leading the Washington establishment to conclude that he had "done another Quayle." Sununu was obviously brilliant: a three-term Governor of New Hampshire and former engineering professor with an IQ estimated at 180. He had been an invaluable political asset, rescuing Bush's faltering campaign by masterminding a victory in the New Hampshire primary. But he lacked any experience in the clannish world of Washington and was so relentlessly abrasive...
Compared with the Republican primary, the Democratic race looks benign. The favorite is Goddard, a three-term mayor whose father Sam was once Governor. With his Jay Rockefeller looks, Jack Kennedy charm and squeaky-clean politics (he now refuses PAC money), Goddard has Democratic presidential hopeful written all over him. This being Arizona, the unmarried Goddard was forced to campaign for mayor by announcing, "I am not gay." A Phoenix newspaper ran a front-page interview with various former girlfriends attesting to his honesty on the point...