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<text id=90TT1607>
<title>
June 18, 1990: Campaign Confessions
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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<body>
<p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
</p>
<p>CAMPAIGN CONFESSIONS
</p>
<p> A checklist of the political season's hot new defensive
offense.
</p>
<p> The most popular political trend this year seems to be: when
in doubt, hang it out. Candidates are telling more about
themselves than voters may want to hear.
</p>
<p>FLORIDA
</p>
<p> Gubernatorial candidate Lawton Chiles revealed that he took
antidepression medication; in an attempt to force Chiles to
reveal all his health records, his Democratic-primary
challenger, Bill Nelson, released his own and disclosed that
he had once had hemorrhoids.
</p>
<p>TEXAS
</p>
<p> Ann Richards survived a primary opponenet's drug-test
gambit, which revived stories about her alcoholism and rumored
past drug use; her Republican opponent, Clayton Williams, told
of his youthful trips to get "serviced" by protitutes.
</p>
<p>ARKANSAS
</p>
<p> Sheffield Nelson, Republican opponent of incumbent Governor
Bill Clinton, released campaign literature detailing a
childhood spent "defending his mother and sisters against an
alcoholic father who beat and verbally abused his family."
</p>
<p>MASSACHUSETTS
</p>
<p> Hoping to remind voters about Congressman Barney Frank's
embarrassing relationship with a male prostitute, Republican
John Soto took an AIDS test and sent out a press release when
he passed.
</p>
<p>SOUTH CAROLINA
</p>
<p> Henry McMaster, a Republican candidate for lieutenant
governor, revealed that he had smoked pot in college 20 years
ago. The now commonplace disclosure had an unintended effect:
Democratic prosecutor Jim Anders first said he had "no choice"
but to prosecute, but then backed away.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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