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...Michigan politician knows how to play the underdog better than Jerome Cavanagh, who as an obscure young lawyer in 1961 overcame opposition from both business and labor to become mayor of Detroit. "I won then," he said last week, "and I can win now." Thus Cavanagh, 37, announced that he would challenge one of the state's best-known Democrats, six-term former Governor G. Mennen Williams, 55, for the party's nomination as its U.S. Senate candidate in next August's primary...
Wealthy Soapy Williams, who resigned his post as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs to make the race, already has the support of the state's powerful labor leaders and the Democratic machine. Yet no one is discounting the popular, dynamic Jerry Cavanagh-least of all Cavanagh, who has taken his own polls, believes that Williams' organization support may not help him win younger voters...
Even so, the former Governor may face one of the toughest primary battles of his career. Though Detroit's popular, dynamic mayor, Jerome Cavanagh, has not yet announced his candidacy, he is eager for higher office. Michigan's Democratic machine, which favors Old-timer Williams for the Senate race, has tried to persuade Cavanagh, 37, to run instead for the governorship against George Romney, the Republican incumbent. Jerry might well face a financial problem if he opposes Soapy. Williams could probably count on the money support of the state's Democratic organization and, as heir...
nomination, faces strong opposition from Michigan's union leaders, who regard his law as antiunion. His probable Democratic opponent: ex-Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams or Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh...
...Cavanagh has the advantage of being a member of the majority party and, at the same time, a non-partisan official free from association with those who have been mired in partisan conflict for years. He also has the advantage of having one of the most astute political brains around; if he decides to run, his decision will be sign enough that he has a solid chance...