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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: j_b who wrote (6222)	9/17/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13994

60% support for the boy? Well 25% of democrats would vote for him even if he were dead. Those wacky Americans: Tulsa World 9/17/98 By Barbara Hoberock World Capitol Bureau Support for dead candidate puzzling OKLAHOMA CITY -- Although she couldn't take office because she died in July, Jacquelyn Morrow Lewis Ledgerwood garnered about 25 percent of the votes in Tuesday's U.S. Senate Democratic runoff. Some said it was a vote against incumbent Republican Don Nickles. Others said she was a better candidate than Don Carroll, a Tahlequah refrigerator repairman whom she faced in the runoff after placing second in a four-way race in the Aug. 25 primary. "I voted for her both times," said one 55-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous. "First of all, from what I knew about her, had she been alive, she would have been the best candidate. And unfortunately, I wasn't pleased with any of the remaining candidates. I felt, if nothing else, I would vote for anyone against Don Nickles." And had Ledgerwood won the runoff, and then the general election, the woman said, she knew that the Democrats would have to come up with another candidate, possibly in a special election. The woman says she plans to vote for Carroll in the general election because she wants to vote against Nickles. Gray Blevins, a 29-year-old division manager for an Oklahoma City manufacturing company, says he also voted for Ledgerwood to protest Nickles and Carroll. He said he knows Carroll won't be able to amass a campaign against the incumbent. "It became evident Don Carroll was not going to be able to come close to raising the kind of money to fight Don Nickles in a full-blown Senate race," Blevins said. Ledgerwood's family wanted to spend Tuesday evening in private, her son, Norman attorney Tom Ledgerwood II, said. On Wednesday, the family congratulated Carroll and his supporters and thanked the public and media for their kindness and understanding. The family had sought to have Ledgerwood's name removed from the ballot or listed with an indication that she had passed way. Ledgerwood's story made national news. "It has been a little difficult, but everyone has been so kind and we have been able to get through this fairly well," Tom Ledgerwood II said. He said the family had no way to gauge the outcome of Tuesday's election. Some speculated that the news accounts would get her name in front of the voters but not the message that she had died. And that may have been the case with some voters. Ledgerwood amassed 38,313 votes, or 24.84 percent, to Carroll's 117,434 votes or 75.16 percent. "I don't think the public in general knew what she stood for," Tom Ledgerwood said. "She did not have an opportunity to get that message out." Despite being the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat, Carroll remains elusive, refusing to return phone calls seeking comment regarding his victory and plans for the general election campaign. Oklahoma Democratic Party Executive Director Pat Hall says Carroll will have an uphill battle. Carroll is "a truly blue-collar worker with no known personal wealth or political war chest" and is facing a three-term incumbent with millions of dollars, Hall said.