Hart gains strange allies in strange places
Late Saturday morning my
roommate drove me downtown,
where he works everyday. Gary
Hart was on his way there too,
to speak for about half an hour
— if you count the press con
ference he held afterwards.
“My brother likes Hart," said
Royce, who, God bless him, had
left the house early just so I
could hang around the mall for
over an hour and drink four
cups of coffee.
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I'd never met Royce's brother,
but I did know that he was older
than Hart. I knew too that he's
always been the surrogate
father of the McClain clan.
“And he's a Republican,
always has been," my room
mate said. "He voted for Nixon,
for Goldwater, for Reagan."
Gee, I thought, as we ap
proached 18th Avenue, that's
strange. I thought Yuppies were
the only Republicans who liked
Hart.
Being a somewhat groggy but
always probing reporter, I pro
pped up in my seat, straighten
ed my tie, and took note.
"Why?" I asked.
Royce gave me that sly, sar
donic smile of his. In this case it
told me something vague but
sublime was coming.
"He says he's 'his kind of
guy,' " he said.
"He's disenchanted with
Reagan," my roommate added,
"over Lebanon and Central
America."
Photo by Michael Clapp
Sen. Cary Hart addressed 3,000 people in the Eugene mall Saturday, urging them to look ahead to
"politics of a new generation."
Left with this I walked to the
mall, where I saw Brian, who
was dressed in a nice brown
suit, but was unhappy. On Fri
day the Hart people had asked
him to be one of the chauffeurs
in Hart's motorcade, and that
morning, at 8 a.m., he was told
they already had three chauf
feurs too many. While we had
coffee I chatted about Hal Mc
Clain's disenchantment with
Ronald Reagan.
"My father is too," Brian said.
"He thinks Reagan is getting a
little out of hand. I don't know
what he'll do. Maybe he'll just
sit this one out."
I began to get an eerie feeling.
Ghosts of old Republicans were
haunting what was supposed to
be a Democratic function.
After the speech — most of
which I'd read in The Oregonian
that morning — I mingled with
the crowd, and heard wind of
another Hart Republican, a local
candidate who I'll call X, from
X's campaign manager.
"I almost got X up there in
troducing Hart," the campaign
manager said, beaming proudly.
I never did nail those ghosts
down, but at the Hart press con
ference, KEZI's Bob Zagorin
tried to get Hart too.
"Senator, in Oregon we have
a senator, Mark Hatfield, who
some people feel might do well
in a national election but can't
get a Republican nomination
because of the structure of his
party. Some people feel the
same way about you, that your
appeal is broader than the
Democratic party, that you may
not be able to achieve the
nomination. Do you feel that
way at all, do you think the
Democratic Party is too narrow
based?"
"No, not at all," said Hart,
who as a candidate, is not sup
posed to be pessimistic.
Brooks Dareff is the Emerald's
associate editor for politics.
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