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The original documents are located in Box 4, folder "People for Ford Rally, Olympia,
Washington, October 8, 1976" of the Frances K. Pullen Papers at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 4 of the Frances K. Pullen Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
PEOPLE FOR FORD RALLY, OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 8, 1976
PAGE 1
WE HAVE TWENTY-FIVE DAYS
UNTIL THE ELECTION
AND ALOT OF HARD WORK AHEAD
FOR ALL OF US.
PAGE 2
BUT WITH THE HELP OF PEOPLE FOR FORD VOLUNTEERS,
JERRY FORD WILL STAY ON THE JOB
HE IS DOING SO WELL!
PAGE 3
YOU REMEMBER THOSE DARK DAYS
WHEN HE CAME INTO OFFICE.
WE WERE ALL DEPRESSED ABOUT OUR COUNTRY.
THE ECONOMY WAS IN BAD SHAPE,
AND OTHER COUNTRIES WERE UNEASY
ABOUT ALL THE CONFUSION IN AMERICA.
PAGE 4
THAT'S ALL CHANGED NOW,
BECAUSE PRESIDENT FORD PROVIDED
STRONG AND STEADY LEADERSHIP.
PAGE 5
HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED MUCH IN TWO YEARS
WITH TOUGH DECISIONS AND HARD WORK
NOT WITH SMILES
AND EMPTY PROMISES.
PAGE 6
WE DON'T KNOW
WHAT THE NEXT FOUR YEARS
WILL BRING OUR COUNTRY,
BUT WE KNOW
WHAT KIND OF A LEADER JERRY FORD IS.
PAGE 7
THE MESSAGE
YOU CAN HELP CARRY TO THE PEOPLE
OF WASHINGTON STATE
IS THAT JERRY FORD OFFERS
PERFORMANCE, NOT PROMISES.
PAGE 8
AND PRESIDENT FORD
IS GOING TO NEED THE HELP
OF REPUBLICANS LIKE JOHN SPELLMAN
AS YOUR GOVERNOR
TO KEEP COMMON SENSE IN THE GOVERNMENT.
PAGE 9
GOVERNOR EVANS,
JILL RUCKELHAUS
AND ALL OF YOU---
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
NOW LET'S GO TO WORK
TO MAKE NOVEMBER 2ND A GREAT VICTORY!
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Washington State
Olympia is the state capital, but it is a small
city with only 23,000 people. Lumber is important
in the damp and mountainous region along the Pacific
Coast and lower Columbia River, where Olympia is located.
Both of the state's senators are Democrats, and
"Scoop" Jackson is up for re-election. His opponent is
George Brown, a United Airlines pilot. Brown was the
winner in a five-person primary, but he is almost
unknown and not expected to win.
There are six Democrats and one Republican in
the House delegation. The lone GOP member is Joel
Pritchard, who represents the 1st District which is
primarily suburban Seattle. Pritchard, first elected
in 1972, does not have serious opposition.
There are only two districts where the RCC thinks
GOP victories are possible. In the 2nd, John Nance
Garner (grandson of the late vice president) is challenging
incumbent Lloyd Meeds. This district includes the far
northwest corner of the continental United States. Most
of the population is in or near Everett and suburbs of
Seattle. Environment is a big issue in the state, and
apparently Meeds has ruffled some feathers on the environment.
This district is still, however, an outside shot.
The other possibility is in the 4th District, now
represented by Mike McCormick. The GOP challenger is
Dick Granger, a Vancouver city commissioner. The RCC
thinks Granger might have a pretty good chance.
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Mrs. Lois Spellman, wife of John Spellman, GOP Candidate
for Governor of Washington State
The candidate will be in Spokane for a debate with
his Democratic opponent, former AEC chairman Dixy Lee
Ray. You will be accompanied by Mrs. Spellman.
The Spellmans have six children, three boys and
three girls, ranging in age from 21 to seven. They
are Catholics, and both attended Seattle University.
Spellman, a graduate of Georgetown Law School,
is presently county executive of King County, where
Seattle is located. He was first elected in 1967
as one of three commissioners of King County. When
the local government was re-organized in 1969, he
was elected to his present job. He was re-elected
in November, 1973. He is 49, and he won the GOP
primary in late September very handily. The general
election is expected to be close.
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GOVERNORS:
Whistling Dixy
She has been a zoology professor,
chairman of the Atomic Energy Com-
mission and-until she quit last year-
an Assistant U.S. Secretary of State. But
when Dr. Dixy Lee Ray announced last
spring that she wanted to become the
first woman governor of Washington
state, "some politicians smiled, some of
them even laughed," she recalled. They
aren't laughing any more. Despite an
offbeat, low-budget campaign that even
her own advisers characterized as
"schlock," the 62-year-old Ray ap-
parently won a narrow victory last week
in Washington's Democratic gubernato-
rial primary.
The latest count showed Ray leading
her nearest rival, Seattle Mayor Wes Uhl-
Greg Glibert-Seattle Times
man, by about 6,000 votes out of more
Ray relaxes with her primary lead: 'It pays to be a personality'
than 500,000 cast. With 25,000 absentee
ballots still uncounted, Ray stopped just
(who himself won renomination easily
They won a court order temporarily forc-
short of claiming victory. "I believe the
last week). And in her hometown of Ta-
ing Los Angeles to reduce the amount of
odds are that I'm the Democratic nomi-
coma, she also has plenty of support from
water it pumps out of the valley. When
nee," she allowed. And if those odds
the people. OUR OWN DIXY read the signs
Los Angeles locked the gates through
hold up, she said, "this is a real triumph
that blossomed on many of the town's
which water flows to Lake Diaz, angry
for the people."
front lawns last week.
Owens Valley dwellers took welding
It was also another triumph for Ray,
-DANIEL CHU with WILLIAM J. COOK in Seattle
torches to the gates and forced them
whose eccentric style once astonished
open. And the day after the aqueduct
her colleagues in the Nixon and Ford
CALIFORNIA:
spill gate was blown up-which a sher-
Administrations. Gruffly outspoken, she
iff's deputy conceded was done by a
lived in a motor home on a Maryland
War Over Water
valley resident-a stick of dynamite tied
farm with her pet dogs Ghillie and
to an arrow was fired into a Los Angeles
Jacques and stalked through Washing-
The incident could have come straight
fountain named after William Mulhol-
ton's corridors of power in tweeds and
out of the movie "Chinatown." A mas-
land, the engineer who designed the
knee socks. When she had a falling out
sive explosion suddenly reverberated
Owens Valley aqueduct and pipeline
with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
through the tranquil Owens Valley in
system. Valley dwellers are openly bitter
last year, she simply gathered up her
central California, ripping apart an aque-
about the renewal of the decades-old
dogs, packed up her home on wheels and
duct spill gate and sending more than
feud. "Los Angeles is squeezing us be-
drove back to her native state.
100 billion gallons of water gushing onto
cause we had the courage to fight its plan
Broke: Once home, Ray did not decide
the dried-out land. It was the latest vio-
to increase pumping," said Jim Ellis, a
to enter the gubernatorial race until well
lent protest in a battle that has gone on
local automobile dealer. "They don't
after her rivals. It took her months to find
since the turn of the century: the struggle
want people in the valley because peo-
a campaign manager and she had to fi-
between the residents of the arid Owens
ple use water and cause problems."
nance her election with less than
Valley and the city of Los Angeles, which
Choice: The city naturally denies such
$100,000 (Uhlman raised $316,000). But
owns the valley's water.
charges, but insists that it needs the
Ray traveled energetically around the
Los Angeles has maintained an almost
Owens Valley water, which provides 80
state, attacking bureaucratic mismanage-
feudal control over the Owens Valley
per cent of its supply. "It comes down to
ment and militant environmentalists,
since it secretly began buying the water
a question of benefiting 3 million people
supporting nuclear power and the right
rights more than 70 years ago. In a
in Los Angeles or 15,000 in Owens Val-
of oil tankers to enter Puget Sound (a hot
rebellion in the 1920s, vigilantes
ley," said Duane Georgeson, an engi-
issue in the state)-and making a virtue
clashed with posses of L.A. detectives
neer with L.A.'s Department of Water
of being practically broke. "The big
armed with Winchester rifles. and orders
and Power.
spenders in the election will be the big
to "shoot to kill" anyone caught near
But the valley residents are maneuver-
spenders in our capital," she warned. In
Owens Valley's aqueduct. The detec-
ing to block the city's plans-with help
the end the voters narrowly agreed. "It
tives won, and Los Angeles now siphons
from California's environmental-protec-
pays to be a personality," said one advis-
off 1.5 trillion gallons of the valley's
tion law. Diversion of water to L.A. has
er, Lou Guzzo. "She's got charisma
water each year, funneling it into the
already dried up Owens Lake, and many
We had no big organization waiting for
city through a 233-mile network of pipe-
conservationists fear that the rest of the
us. It was like Lewis and Clark going into
lines and canals. When L.A. city officials
valley may die as well. Wildlife and
some of the places [we campaigned in]."
decided they needed more of the
vegetation have been vanishing from
Ray's opponent in November will be
Owens Valley water, they announced
what once was a fertile oasis at the foot of
King County executive John Spellman,
plans to double the amount pumped out
the Sierra Nevada mountains. Dust
49, a moderate Republican with a reputa-
of valley's streams and underground
storms sweep through the sagebrush that
tion as a skilled administrator. Dissident
reservoirs. They told tenants on Los
litters the valley floor, spreading irritat-
state Democrats, some of whom consider
Angeles-owned land that they would
ing alkali pollution. Valley residents are
Ray a Republican in Democrat's cloth-
not automatically be allowed to renew
hoping that by going to court with such
ing, may complicate the race by running
their leases and said they doubted that
environmental data, they can persuade
one of their own as an independent can-
the city would be able to continue feed-
the courts to turn down Los Angeles's
didate. But Dixy Lee Ray now claims the
ing water into a small recreational lake.
plans-and bring a new truce in an old
endorsements of Washington Senators
The valley's residents fought back-
war over water.
Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson
with court action and with violence.
-RICHARD STEELE with JOHN BARNES in Owens Valley
October 4, 1976
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