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In a speech to nearly a thousand school board members and administrators meeting in Seattle, Booth warned that infighting among education’s stakeholders could doom his push to thrust Washington State into the forefront of educational reform. “The entire education community needs to be united,” the governor emphasized, asking every district to field a team of 25 to help lobby legislators. The speech stands as his oratorical landmark. It summarized everything Booth Gardner passionately believes about education’s power to transform lives – all the lessons he’d learned in the Central Area and at Harvard rolled into one. His agenda dovetailed with the findings of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, which emphasized the need for innovation and excellence. Intervening early on in the lives of children, particularly those at risk, yields incalculable dividends, the governor told the educators. Prenatal care and programs to inculcate parenting skills and improve nutrition are all part of the equation. So too programs to assist special-needs children and their families. “Everyone matters,” Booth said, noting that it cost the state $25,000 to $30,000 a year for every individual who fell through the cracks and ended up on welfare, in a rehab program, in jail or prison. He said his program could save the state millions of dollars and untold grief. “You can pay me now,” he said, “or you can pay me later – and later is going to cost a whole lot more.” Booth ended with an appeal to their business sense and their hearts. “Education is like no other box on the budget scorecard. If it’s neglected, society will pay for it over and over again.” Laird Harris, Gardner’s policy adviser, recalls intense “skull sessions” in the basement of the mansion in the summer and fall of 1986. Experts from around the country came to share their ideas, and Booth consulted with his many friends who were teachers and school administrators, notably Bill Gerberding, president of the University of Washington. “Some people underrated Booth because he was sort of folksy,” Gerberding says, “but he had a lot of self-confidence. He was very bright and also well connected in many ways – business, politics, higher ed. He knew a lot of heavy hitters. He wanted ideas.” Before the year was out, Booth announced that he would seek a second term, putting to rest speculation that he might be a candidate for the U.S. Senate should Evans decide to not seek re-election. In a statement that revealed a major truth about his own Booth works the phones late at night in preparation for the opening of the Legislature. Bruce Larson ©The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) 1987 Reprinted with permission. 114
abilities and the nature of the U.S. Senate, Gardner told reporters, “I think there is a major difference between an administrative and legislative personality. You don’t have to go much farther than Dan Evans to see that. … He’s said to me on several occasions that it’s a lot more fun being governor.” Being governor was not going to be much fun in 1987. 115
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Booth Who? A biography of Booth Gar
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Al Rosellini, 15 th governor of the
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Daniel Bergner, the writer whose 20
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Yesler Terrace, a housing project,
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He carries the names of two of the
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Gardner appointed the first ethnic
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ultimate curve ball, a debilitating
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horses, mules, and cattle. The newc
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weeks of wood shavings marinating i
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ut Laurence Booth took some lumps i
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Vashon Island. His wife died in 192
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from the 5,000-square-foot Booth ho
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coaching a championship girls’ so
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orange cars. I liked them. So I dec
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more surprised when he told me that
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and he just sort of came out of it.
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them. That’s where I learned that
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Matthew and Roger Clapp were critic
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Portland on business, flew immediat
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Chapter Four: Running away About th
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adulthood, I never saw Booth use hi
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kids and kids with disabilities. I
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ecame a hyperactive wild child, she
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Chapter Five: Al’s Helicopter Wha
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the story’s not true, yet you get
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each cabin. When I talked to Booth
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Brick Gardner had been at the hotel
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Chapter Seven: Senator Gardner Befo
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The 26 th District freshman’s acc
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stage of each legislative session,
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plus its major stake in Weyerhaeuse
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I had outstanding instincts - way b
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Chapter nine: “He’s gonna get y
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The stage was set for a Gardner-Fau
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Tacoma in one piece, somehow managi
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sprang from the Washington State or
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that inequalities in health care le
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father and a son, and how important
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of good journalism?” Another wrot
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There’s nothing dignified about s
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health care system where the more m
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y voters in 30 of the state’s 39
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Chapter 19: Soul searching It’s b
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“There’s something I’ve seen
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The French-Canadians who came to th
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for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Rob
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y rail and boarded another vessel f
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Acknowledgements Phil Graham, publi
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Pierce, David Postman, Eric Pryne,
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early Legislature from State of Was
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Bacon, bought a Tacoma gift shop…
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governor’s race of all time,” f
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a tough decision ….,” from “S
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1968-2004, No. 717 1 027481. Marria
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Bibliography Books, articles and ma
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Sensel, Joni, Traditions Through th
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Born: August 21, 1936, Tacoma Gener
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Burien, Washington 84 Burt, Lyle 97
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Gardner, William Sr. 14 Garfield Hi
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Mr. Rogers 103 Mount Hood 31 Munici
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Seattle Trade Center 152 Seattle Tr
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