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Callaghan observed that “for a guy who’s getting ready to run for the highest elective office in the state,” Gardner seemed remarkably nonchalant, coming across “as someone who won’t stay awake at night if he doesn’t become the next governor.” Some of his supporters worried about whether he wanted the job badly enough. “Booth has to persuade me that he has a fire in his belly,” said Grimm. Not to worry, said Gardner. “I come off low-key, but like a duck I try to remain calm on the surface while I’m paddling like mad underneath. But if I decide to do this, I’m going to give it all I’ve got. I’m a highly competitive person.” In the months to come, many would copy Callaghan’s observation that Gardner looked “like a cross between Bob Newhart and Tommy Smothers: preppy but likeable.” But the lines that drew the most attention were these: “He voluntarily walked into a government best known for its corruption, mismanagement and patronage. In the spring of 1981, Pierce County was $4.7 million in the red. By the end of this year, Gardner expects a surplus of $1 million. …Even his most vocal critics concede he’s a master administrator. One of them, Rep. Ruth Fisher, D-Tacoma, suggests that whomever is elected governor should hire Gardner to run the state.” Gardner said he considered himself a businessman, not a politician. Of the race for governor, he said, “It’s like starting a new business, only I’m the product.” In August, former Seattle mayor Wes Uhlman, who had served with Booth in the state Senate in the early ’70s, signed onto his finance committee. He said Gardner would be the strongest candidate the Democrats could field against the vulnerable Spellman. Uhlman urged state Senator Jim McDermott, D-Seattle, who had made two campaigns for governor, to not run again. “Now it is someone else’s turn.” * * * In the drizzly days of December, a group of businessmen – most of them wellheeled Republicans – huddled privately with Gardner at the Tacoma Club. They urged him to seek re-election as Pierce County executive, not challenge Spellman. The Tacoma News Tribune quickly got wind of it and tracked down some of the participants. Weyerhaeuser executive Edward Soule confirmed that the “basic objective” was to dissuade him from taking on Spellman. “We have high regard for Booth and what he has done for Pierce County,” Soule said, adding that they were worried that no qualified candidate would step forward to succeed him if he ran for governor. No more scandals, please. “There wasn’t any arm-twisting,” said state Rep. Stan Johnson, a Republican from Lakewood. Despite Gardner’s success in turning around Pierce County, he said most businessmen were solidly behind Spellman. Booth was non-committal. “Basically, everyone there was a personal friend of mine,” he told the paper. And he knew they knew what he knew: He could beat Spellman. His New Year’s resolution was that 1984 was going to be his year, although as the date to announce grew near he kept asking himself if he really knew what he was getting into. 74
“Why do I want to do it?” Booth asked rhetorically during his interview with Callaghan. “I ask myself the same question. I wake up about 4:30 with a knot in my stomach every now and then. The answer is, if people like myself, with capabilities, aren’t willing to assume responsibility at some point in their lives, then it’s going to be left to those who are less qualified.” 75
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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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Page 58 and 59: The 26 th District freshman’s acc
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Page 68 and 69: The stage was set for a Gardner-Fau
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After adjournment, they were off an
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supporters, Gardner said, “I thin
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and outmaneuvered. Service provider
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system, there are still people …
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Chapter 15: Tough choices On Januar
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Capitol in March, demanding bigger
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any further shipments to Hanford of
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Morton, even smaller towns where ti
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Northwest region members of the Was
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endorsement, violent sexual deviant
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took the edge off the furor. The Ti
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eing booed and reasoned that a six-
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Chapter 16: Out of gas It was Octob
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Gardner and Heck had even practiced
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With Heck as his tail-twister, Gard
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Chapter 17: The Tin Man Walter Mond
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“Utterly depressed and scared,”
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ut the environment pulls the trigge
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into. They went on to draft an ambi
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than I did as governor. So I’m go
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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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