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The Gortons and Slades - Washington Secretary of State

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186 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics<br />

1956 campaign for the Legislature. Evans was conflicted. <strong>Secretary</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>State</strong> Ralph Munro, a former aide <strong>and</strong> good friend, prodded him to call<br />

Governor Spellman. <strong>The</strong> Korean Air tragedy was all over the radio as Evans<br />

drove to the Governor’s Mansion. “Good God,” he said to himself,<br />

“with this many problems <strong>and</strong> the challenges that we’re facing . . . how<br />

can you not want to really get involved?” 11<br />

Once appointed, Evans was instantly in campaign mode to serve the<br />

last five years <strong>of</strong> Jackson’s term. With Slade joining him on the stump,<br />

Evans h<strong>and</strong>ily outpolled Lloyd Cooney in a primary barely a month later,<br />

then took 55 percent <strong>of</strong> the vote against Congressman Mike Lowry. Jim<br />

Waldo <strong>and</strong> Steve Excell, the leading strategists in the Evans campaign,<br />

had deftly contrasted Lowry’s bearded rumpledness <strong>and</strong> hot rhetoric with<br />

Evans’ senatorial mien. 12<br />

goRton And JAcKson had conducted hearings in Spokane, Seattle <strong>and</strong><br />

D.C. on their proposal to protect from development an additional 1.6 mil-<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Washington</strong> <strong>State</strong> congressional delegation in 1982: sitting, from left,<br />

Gorton, Pritchard <strong>and</strong> Evans; st<strong>and</strong>ing, from left: Rod Ch<strong>and</strong>ler, Al Swift,<br />

Norm Dicks, Tom Foley, Sid Morrison, Mike Lowry <strong>and</strong> Don Bonker.<br />

Gorton Center

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