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■ Some campaign figures: According to Washington Post, five Republican national committees have collected more than $11 million for ’70 campaign, and this doesn’t include sums raised by instate and local candidates individually. . . . Democratic National Committee has done much less well, but liberal Democrats have fared not too badly by George McGovern’s “Campaign 70” organization which raised and dispensed over $700,000, and with National Committee for an Effective Congress, which raised over $600,000 for liberal candidates. NCEC, incidentally, classifies as “reactionaries” liberal Democratic Senators Henry Jackson (Wash.), Gale McGee (Wyo.) and Thomas Dodd (Conn.) — because they are hawks. . . . Various unions also have kicked in over half a million bucks for liberal senators and candidates, with Mansfield, Jackson and Byrd (W.Va.) getting the least—under $5,000 each—and Albert Gore (Tenn.) and senatorial candidate Howard Metzenbaum (Ohio) getting largest slugs— over $50,000 each. Metzenbaum is in neck-in-neck battle with Rep. Robert Taft Jr., Gore is trailing Rep. Wm. Brock by a few points. . . . Fair Campaign Practices Committee reports fewer complaints of unfair tactics this year, which hasn’t stopped Lee Shull, National Director of the ADA, from blaming Spiro Agnew for “the dirtiest campaign in decades” (and just who was that who was blowing up little girls with daisies only six years ago?) … Si Spaulding, the Republican lamb who is running against Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts, wishes someone—Agnew to be exact—would please call him a “radical lib,” anything like that would be a help.

■ According to Evans and Novak, “the best campaigner” in the land this year is Gov. Ronald Reagan. Latest Field poll shows Reagan with 52 per cent, Unruh 36, 8 undecided. Reagan’s coattails may be long enough to bring victory to George Murphy, but probably not to James Flournoy, the conservative Republican Negro who is running for Secretary of State in California against white Democratic liberal, Edmund G. Brown Jr., son of former Gov. Pat Brown. . . . Campaign slips: Paul Newman, groggy after sixty appearances in three days for Democratic senatorial candidate Joseph Duffey in Conn., begged off from signing an autograph with excuse: “I’d like to oblige but we’ve got a murder on our schedule.” . . . Texas Gov. Preston Smith, running an unexpectedly tight race against Republican Paul Eggers, wanted to know what his audience had against “frijoles” (Mexican fried beans). What the crowd had been shouting was “Free Lee Otis”— (Lee Otis Johnson, who has been sentenced to thirty years in jail on a marijuana charge).

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■ Some campaign figures: According to Washington Post, five Republican national committees have collected more than $11 million for ’70 campaign, and this doesn’t include sums raised by instate and local candidates individually. . . . Democratic National Committee has done much less well, but liberal Democrats have fared not too badly by George McGovern’s “Campaign 70” organization which raised and dispensed over $700,000, and with National Committee for an Effective Congress, which raised over $600,000 for liberal candidates. NCEC, incidentally, classifies as “reactionaries” liberal Democratic Senators Henry Jackson (Wash.), Gale McGee (Wyo.) and Thomas Dodd (Conn.) — because they are hawks. . . . Various unions also have kicked in over half a million bucks for liberal senators and candidates, with Mansfield, Jackson and Byrd (W.Va.) getting the least—under $5,000 each—and Albert Gore (Tenn.) and senatorial candidate Howard Metzenbaum (Ohio) getting largest slugs— over $50,000 each. Metzenbaum is in neck-in-neck battle with Rep. Robert Taft Jr., Gore is trailing Rep. Wm. Brock by a few points. . . . Fair Campaign Practices Committee reports fewer complaints of unfair tactics this year, which hasn’t stopped Lee Shull, National Director of the ADA, from blaming Spiro Agnew for “the dirtiest campaign in decades” (and just who was that who was blowing up little girls with daisies only six years ago?) … Si Spaulding, the Republican lamb who is running against Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts, wishes someone—Agnew to be exact—would please call him a “radical lib,” anything like that would be a help.

■ According to Evans and Novak, “the best campaigner” in the land this year is Gov. Ronald Reagan. Latest Field poll shows Reagan with 52 per cent, Unruh 36, 8 undecided. Reagan’s coattails may be long enough to bring victory to George Murphy, but probably not to James Flournoy, the conservative Republican Negro who is running for Secretary of State in California against white Democratic liberal, Edmund G. Brown Jr., son of former Gov. Pat Brown. . . . Campaign slips: Paul Newman, groggy after sixty appearances in three days for Democratic senatorial candidate Joseph Duffey in Conn., begged off from signing an autograph with excuse: “I’d like to oblige but we’ve got a murder on our schedule.” . . . Texas Gov. Preston Smith, running an unexpectedly tight race against Republican Paul Eggers, wanted to know what his audience had against “frijoles” (Mexican fried beans). What the crowd had been shouting was “Free Lee Otis”— (Lee Otis Johnson, who has been sentenced to thirty years in jail on a marijuana charge).