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Texas governor race shapes up with knowledge tests
Texas races center on name recognition and know how. Veteran candidates Preston Smith Don Yarborough and Waggoner Carr push seasoned campaigns while challengers Eugene Locke John Hill Dolph Briscoe Edward Whittenburg and Pat O Daniel field varied platforms from liquor by the drink to open housing and police funding. Political newcomer Alfonso Veloz campaigns through hands on outreach as voters expect a June runoff unlikely a single frontrunner.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Texas
Martin A. Wiginton
Austin
Preston Smith
Lubbock
Quartrback
Smith
Don Yarborough
Houston
John Connally
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Waggoner Carr
House
U.S
John Tower
R-T
Johnson and
Connally
Carr
Yarborough
Eugene Locke
Dallas
Vietnam
Heart To Heart
Johnson
Pakistan
Merrll
Locke
Robert Kennedy
Eugene
McCarthy
Kennedy
John Hill
Hill
Dolph Briscoe
Uvalde
Briscoe
Edward L Whittenburg
Whittenburg
Ing
Pat O’daniel
W. Lee O’daniel