Word: tornillo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current case resulted from two Miami Herald editorials in September 1972. Both acidly criticized Pat L. Tornillo Jr., a teachers' union executive and then a candidate in a legislative primary."We cannot say it would be illegal", the Herald advised, "but certainly it would be inexcusable of the voters if they sent Pat Tornillo to Tallahassee." Tornillo twice appeared at Herald offices with rebuttals and asked that the paper print them or risk violation of Florida's 1913 right-to-reply statute. Herald editors refused...