[Amish]

(VANITY)

Interesting to see this reference. I thought I was the only one who remembered that Rafferty was at the hotel that night as well. I came over from U of A in Tucson to work in the Rafferty campaign, and after days of walking through the smog to drop literature at homes in Altadena, I was at the Ambassador that night.

I had ridden there with several others. Rafferty was on the first floor and the Kennedy folk were in the basement. My ride needed to head home, so it was about 10-15 minutes after we left the hotel that we heard live on the radio the sounds of the shooting. The returns were far from complete at that point, and the assassination dominated the news far into the night and morning.

Interesting how different a state it was then. Max ran a strong race in November against Cranston. No chance that anyone that conservative could take the state today.

[Fiji Hill]

No chance that anyone that conservative could take the state today.

We elected a conservative governor as late as 1986, when George Deukmejian won re-election. However, Tom McClintock's defeat in his bid for lieutenant governor may be an indication that California has passed the "tipping point" and will be a "blue state" for the forseeable future.