Word: pheonix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats hold no statewide offices (from U.S. Senator down) and are in a minority in both houses of the legislature. "In 1968 the conservatives kept telling us not to upset the applecart--Johnson would lose and we would be defeated on the state level," said Richard Wilks, a Pheonix lawyer who heads the Arizona NDC. "Well, after November, there's just no applecart left." The conservatives are weak in Arizona and are searching for attractive candidates for lower offices, which the new liberals can have almost for the asking if they appear to be winners...
...specifically criticized Sen. Goldwater for attempting "to link the Negro freedom movement with crime in the streets," and for pointing to the rising crime rate in New York and Washington, D.C.,--"both of which have high Negro populations--when the crime rate in Pheonix, Arizona is actually higher than in either...