Word: walkins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gonna let nobody turn me 'round turn me 'round, turn me 'round, Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round I'm gonna keep on walkin', keep on a-talkin' Marching up to freedom land...
Teasdale is sticking to the down-home strategy he first developed in 1972, when he called himself " Walkin' Joe" and hiked across the state in an unsuccessful primary bid for Governor. Four years later, he won. He now portrays himself as a defender of the "common man." He boasts, for instance, that at his urging the state legislature voted $2.5 million to help poor people pay their air-conditioning bills during last July's heat wave. Teasdale, a former state prosecutor who graduated from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kans., acidly contrasts his country-boy background with that...