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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (249531)	4/23/2014 11:40:18 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 543128

If he would have won, he would have had state-provided protection. Coleman was, believe it or not, one of 136 candidates on the ballot as alternatives to Davis. Davis, as we all know, was recalled, and Schwarzenegger won the job with 4.2 million votes. Eighth place went to ... Coleman, best known as the star of the 1970s and '80s TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes." His candidacy was half-serious, put up by a newspaper publisher to express his disdain for the recall of a governor re-elected only a year before. Coleman finished with 14,235 votes. Another 3300 votes and he would have wound up in seventh place, ahead of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt. npr.org