McGovern Opens Final Drive Ahead of New York Primary
Sen. George McGovern pushes toward the Democratic nomination with a chartered jet trip to New York and visits planned in three boroughs. He led with 9513 delegates after adding 30 in Minnesota and Virginia, while Hubert Humphrey holds 34214 with a weekend win and heads to Texas for a key meeting after taking his first weekend off since January.
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Gregg Herrington
NEW York
George McGovern
South Dakota
McGovern
Minnesota
Virginia
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Miami Beach
Humphrey
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Edmund S. Muskie
San Antonio
Texas
Fla
Tunney Named California Delegate To McGovern Ticket
Sen John V Tunney won one of 33 open seats on California's 271 member McGovern slate for the Democratic National Convention despite Mexican American opposition led by Ralph Ochoa. Tunney drew 192 votes to 93 for Mary Rangel, with support from George Brown Jr Willie Brown and Alan Cranston who urged unity for McGovern.
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Los Angeles
John V. Tunney
California
George McGovern
McGovern
Tunney
Ralph Ochoa
Farm Workers Movement
Cesar Chavez
George Brown Jr
Willie Brown
San Francisco
Alan Cranston
Cranston
Miami Beach
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Mary Rangel
Muskie
Legislature considers salary hikes and transit expansion bills
Summary of bills including SB 1108 allowing elected county officers to seek salary hikes via public referendum, SB 1072 enabling Clovis to join Fresno Area Rapid Transit District, AB 1763 granting courts power to restore funds from false advertising, SB 2273 guiding redevelopment agency advisory input, and SB 593 updating adoption language to remove dated terms.
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San Mateo
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Clovis
Fresno Area
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Fresno
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Marks
San Francisco
Democrats Hear Environment A Major Issue At West Coast Hearing
Democratic policy makers open the fourth platform hearing with 90 witnesses requesting to speak in San Francisco on environment and corporate responsibility. Western groups like the Sierra Club join consumer advocates and minority groups as the panel weighs a proposed federal chartering standard linking charter loss to failing environmental and social safeguards.
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Hunger Action Project
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Democratic Party
Oregon
Washington
California
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