. . . The race remained close until the campaign’s final week, when Moore’s opponent, three-term Jackson Mayor Dale Danks, aired a controversial TV spot showing Moore in 1975 with long hair. . . with a voice-over: “Who has the experience to be attorney general? Well, when Mike Moore was a law student, Dale Danks was a prosecutor winning 90 percent of his cases. . . .”
A second spot depicted Danks in college with his closely cropped wethead, circa 1963, while the voice-over intoned “. . . Dale Danks worked for the city sanitation department while earning his degree from the Jackson School of Law.”
Danks found himself on the defensive for what many voters described as “a low blow.” He tried to explain the ads as an insight into his opponent’s background and character . . . . Most voters did not agree. As he continued campaigning, Moore sensed the tide turning in his favor. “Everybody’s mad about that hair thing. . . . People walked up to
