Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other six candidates, either Barnett or Williams is expected to go up against Winter in an Aug. 29 run-off between the top two vote getters. Governor Paul Johnson, prevented by the state constitution from succeeding himself, finds himself instead in the odd position of campaigning for the lieutenant-governorship, a job he held under Barnett. Among Johnson's five opponents: Byron De La Beckwith, under indictment for the 1963 murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers...
...stayed clear of intraparty brouhaha but to date has shown no stomach for the role of Solomon. The state's influential assembly speaker, Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, seems inclined to duck this disruptive round in order to husband his good will for a possible go at the governorship...
...reason to believe a third party could do well. New York State had been able to sustain both a third and fourth party to the left of the Democrats. California had seen, in the '30's, a remarkable showing by Upton Sinclair in an insurgent bid for the Governorship. But in '48 Wallace got two per cent of the vote and was narrowly edged out by a Dixiecrat (a humiliation which could easily recur...
...glaring funding imbalances, however, occur on the state and local level. In 1966 Governor Rockefeller spent $7 million in winning the governorship of New York. His opponent, Frank O'Connor, was able to scrape up only a half million. If O'Connor were to run again in 1970, he would receive no money. But based on the Long formula, struggling candidate Lyndon Johnson may receive 30 million dollars in 1968. Financing presidential campaigns may suit Lyndon Johnson's plans for '68, but it hardly suits Long's rhetoric (studded with references to the "poor boy making good" and boys from...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Dean Martin, Susan Hayward and Martin Balsam engage in a political chess game for the governorship of California...