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A choice not an echo—that’s what Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty says he’s offering moderate Democratic voters next year when he enters the New Hampshire and California Democratic primaries…. According to Herb Caen (SF Chronicle), who seems to know everything that goes on in California, the reason Sandy Weiner has quit Pete McCloskey’s campaign is—money, a shortage of…. Latest poll in Oregon looks very bad indeed for dove Mark Hatfield. It shows him not only trailing Gov. Tom McCall 58.8 to 34.8 per cent but also trailing Republican Representative Wendell Wyatt 46.4 to 40.3 per cent. On Democratic side, Representative Edith Green placed well ahead of former Sen. Wayne Morse who has announced he’ll run in senatorial primary next year.

Nelson Rockefeller is telling his friends (says Joseph Alsop) that if he did decide to run again in ‘74—which is problematical—and ran against John Lindsay—which is less so, the Lindsay gubernatorial candidacy, that is—that he, as a Republican, would beat Lindsay, as a Democrat, in Democratic New York City by over 100,000 votes…. New York’s senior senator is slipping. Latest ADA interim listings show that Jacob Javits has been replaced as Number One Republican in the heart of Americans for Democratic Action by Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. Schweiker got 92 per cent ADA rating, which puts him to the left of all but nine Democratic senators.

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