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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- CAMPAIGN CONFESSIONS
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- A checklist of the political season's hot new defensive
- offense.
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- The most popular political trend this year seems to be: when
- in doubt, hang it out. Candidates are telling more about
- themselves than voters may want to hear.
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- FLORIDA
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- Gubernatorial candidate Lawton Chiles revealed that he took
- antidepression medication; in an attempt to force Chiles to
- reveal all his health records, his Democratic-primary
- challenger, Bill Nelson, released his own and disclosed that
- he had once had hemorrhoids.
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- TEXAS
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- Ann Richards survived a primary opponenet's drug-test
- gambit, which revived stories about her alcoholism and rumored
- past drug use; her Republican opponent, Clayton Williams, told
- of his youthful trips to get "serviced" by protitutes.
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- ARKANSAS
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- Sheffield Nelson, Republican opponent of incumbent Governor
- Bill Clinton, released campaign literature detailing a
- childhood spent "defending his mother and sisters against an
- alcoholic father who beat and verbally abused his family."
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- MASSACHUSETTS
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- Hoping to remind voters about Congressman Barney Frank's
- embarrassing relationship with a male prostitute, Republican
- John Soto took an AIDS test and sent out a press release when
- he passed.
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- SOUTH CAROLINA
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- Henry McMaster, a Republican candidate for lieutenant
- governor, revealed that he had smoked pot in college 20 years
- ago. The now commonplace disclosure had an unintended effect:
- Democratic prosecutor Jim Anders first said he had "no choice"
- but to prosecute, but then backed away.
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