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Ann Richards: Campaigns
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Born in Lakeview, Texas, in 1933, Richards grew up near Waco, married civil rights lawyer David Richards and spent her early adulthood volunteering in campaigns and raising four children. She often said the hardest job she ever had was as a public school teacher at Fulmore Junior High School in Austin.
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Richards taught social studies and history at Fulmore Junior High School in Austin from 1955 to 1956. She campaigned for Texas liberals and progressives such as Henry B. Gonzalez, Ralph Yarborough, and Sarah T. Hughes.
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Richards refused to answer the question. This rankled the (primarily male and culturally conservative) hired help in the campaign. The lesson they had learned from Douglas Ginsburg's failed supreme court nomination in 1987 was that it was safest to confess misdeeds before others proved them true.
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Some have speculated that the energetic campaign he ran in 1994 was fueled in part by his anger over Richards’ one-liner. It’s a safe bet that it didn’t lessen the satisfaction he felt when he beat her.
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