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Gore Vidal Challenges Brown for Hayakawa's Senate Seat
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| Last Edited | Craverguy Mar 15, 2009 03:23am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 9, 1982 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Los Angeles, March 8 (UPI)--Gore Vidal, the writer, said today he would challenge Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by S.I. Hayakawa, a Republican.
Mr. Vidal, 56 years old, said he had mailed the necessary fee to the California Secretary of State's Office and would personally file the required 60 signatures Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Mr. Vidal, whose books, essays, and plays include Myra Breckinridge, Burr, 1851, Caligula, and Creation, is the third Democrat to challenge the two-term Governor for the nomination. Mayor Dan Whitehurst of Fresno and State Senator Paul Carpenter are also in the race.
Mr. Vidal said his platform included drastic cuts in the military budget, taxing religion, a constitutional convention, and the legalization of prostitution, gambling, and drug use.
Mr. Vidal, whose grandfather was the late Senator Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma, lost a 1960 campaign for Congress in New York. |
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