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If you're George R. Moscone, a state senator from San Francisco, and you want to be governor of California, then you spend a great deal of time where the voters live and that is Southern California. Moscone and staff members travel almost every week from Sacramento to

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Los Angeles. During the trip, the senator is briefed on appointments, who he will meet and what he should say in Los Angeles. He has a public relations firm which meets the plane and has cars and drivers available to take him over the many miles of freeways

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and roads. One is forced to travel in this area. The first stop on this particular day was at Santa Monica Community College, where he was quickly interviewed by the campus television station and then spoke at a voter registration rally to urge young people to become involved

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in the electoral process. The war in Southeast Asia, which goes on and on and on. If you're not outraged by the fact of life that a self professed bigot can get, thank you, I wouldn't want to see that kind of a cutback in any program, particularly

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one this is apparently as progressive as Santa Monica City College. So I'll look into it immediately, and I don't know what kind of pressure I can put on them. But I would like to let them know that maybe there's some support forthcoming from the Legislature that

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takes a little bit of the pressure off of them and keep this going for educational purposes. So you will talk to him about do it immediately. Good. I got some phone numbers that your people gave me, so I can do it right away. I'm Laurie Coulter

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High. Okay, nice thing you okay. And well, will certainly be this, then, was the start of another long day. The obvious question is why such an intensive campaign for an office that isn't available for two years? The largest state in the union, 20 million Californians. And

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I have to believe that they will not anymore accept a package candidate. They're going to have to meet him or have some close contact with them. And that's what I intend to provide for them. Don't you think you can burn yourself out, though, before 1974? Well,

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I think that's a risk I have to be prepared to take, because in the absence of it. I don't see how anybody can really ask so many people to entrust a state of California in his hands. I think, particularly after the last eight years under Governor

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Reagan, they're going to be very suspect about anybody about whom they know very little. So I'll have to take that risk of hurting myself out. How do you pay for all this? Who pays for it? Well you get contributions from people who have some belief in the

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principles for which you stand. And in order to get those people, you have to be able to enunciate those principles by taking a great many speaking engagements and meeting everybody that has any concern about the direction of California. One such man is Byron Lasky, a residential

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contractor in the Los Angeles and San Diego area. Lasky is a liberal who not only can give money but can raise it for candidates he likes. And Moscone wants to be liked. So he had lunch with Lasky. The next stop was a big one for the

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Senator, his first visit with the editorial board of the influential Los Angeles Times, who wanted to talk about his bills on medical care and no fault insurance. Tonight, Senator Moscone goes to the United Auto Workers rally. Then he drops into a dinner honoring U Thant. Tomorrow

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It's the same thing speeches, some television interviews, meeting people and just generally getting to be known here in Southern California. It's a long road for an election that doesn't happen until 1974. If he doesn't become governor, it isn't because he hasn't tried. Rollin Post for Eyewitness

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