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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Aug. 10, 1972 AYS ISSUES ARE KEY fis Nunn Had to Rise from Obscurity At a Aug. 29 Runoff U.S. SENATE Gambrell (D) Nov. 8 Election Thompson OR) Gowan Nunn (D) CONGRESS First District Ginn (D) Hagan (D) STATE HOUSE District 20, Post 3, Cobb County in high school), Nunn doesn't begin a speech at a low pitch and build up to a crescendo, but usually starts at the crescendo.

He says this is the best way to campaign in the true tradition of American politics. Having overcome the initial disadvantage of identification, Nunn sees his next big hurdle as the additional financing it will take to keep his momentum going until the Aug. 29 runoff, and, he hopes, the Nov. 3 general election. "We ran out of money at just about the right time," he said.

"We couldn't have done any more massive advertising if we had wanted to. "But I feel that new contributors will come forward now that the field is narrowed. And it looks like I might have to sell some land, if it takes frit." "The fight against Fletcher will be hard," he said, "but nothing will ever be as hard as coming where I've come since March 15." why they were there. They answered that their husbands had left home, and Nunn told them he had a platform to put a stop to this type of conduct. Nunn says his stands on drugs, required voter approval of federal judges, welfare and a proposed limit on federal spending are the most well-received.

"The narcotics platform is probably the biggest," said Nunn, who proposes "compulsory rehabilitation" for known drug users. "People are worried. They want something done." Putting 20,000 miles on a brand-new Pontiac donated by a Dublin car dealer and more recently logging time in an airplane loaned by a Macon lawyer Nunn has taken his "get tough" message around Georgia via speeches, barbecues, rallies and news conferences. Despite his slight build (betraying the fact that he was an all-star basketball player Cochran (D) 1 Nix (R) Rushton (D) District 28, Fulton County Collar (iD) No Republican Stephens (D) District 37, Fulton County Borders (D) Borders (R) Shepherd (D) llii 1 BY BOB FORT Sam Nunn. a 33-year-old state representative from Houston County, exemplified the proverbial "rise from obscurity'' when he won a runoff position in the U.

S. Senatorial race in Tuesday's Democratic Unknown in most of Georgia when he first decided to seek the post vacated by the death Sen. Richard B. Russell, '''Nunn said recently he "had to" run for the job while he 'was still young. "If I had waited many more he said, "I wouldn't have been able to devote the energy I want to devote as a senator." Nunn will face Sen.

David Gambrell in a Democratic pri- runoff Aug. 29. 1 Refuting any ideas of a "lifelong ambition" or a "date with destiny" as his basis for 1. running, Nunn said he made up his mind to offer for the seat after contacting colleagues in the Georgia House and other friends around the state to see if he could establish a solid base of support and an all-important financial base. At a breakfast meeting in his hometown of Perry, Nunn told longtime friends on his 'ability to handle the job in Washington, and almost im-Wdiately got commitments $50,000.

"Because of some people who couldn't be 'there, we knew we could get 'at least that much more," iNunn recalls. 'The fund-raising effort began expanding statewide in February when Nunn had definitely decided to run and by mid-March he had the financial base he needed. That came to nearlv $150,000 by District 46, DeKalb County Associated Press Photo SAM NUNN TELLS 3-YEAR-OLD SON BRIAN ABOUT VICTORY State Senator From Perry Faces Sen. David Gambrell in Runoff Petro(R) Kramer (D) Moss (R) AND MEDIA District 49, DeKalb County Elliott (R) 3 No Democrat Simmons (R) District 55, DeKalb 'County Losers Fault Funds Lack Clarke (D) No Republican Monti (D) District 56, Post 3, DeKalb County "My following everywhere in the state is because of the issue-oriented campaign," he said. "I'm able to give them my ideas on almost any subject they're interesed in a very positive-type campaign.

"Most people who are for me can tell me what reasons they're for me. They mention specific issues." A woman did just that in Albany on a recent campaign stop. Walking up to Nunn in front of the post office, she told him she had two children, was concerned about the drug problem and would vote for him because of his position on it. Later, soliciting support from a line of black women waiting to receive food stamps, Nunn asked several Tuesday, and was less than the money spent by third-runner Ernest Vandiver. Knowing he would have to spend his limited money frugally and spread it around for the best exposure, Nunn qualified, adopted the campaign theme "Get tough in Washington," and drafted the platform he had long thought of.

"I made up my mind early in this thing," he said in an interview at his farm near Haw-kinsville, "that I was going to conduct a campaign based on issues, and if I couldn't do that I wasn't going to run. "The people of Georgia are tired of political factions that talk about things that don't have any bearing, and they want somebody respresenting them who can do it." Staking his no-loss political career on such a premise, Nunn dre up his 15-point platform and set up local organizations with the help of a nucleus of dedicated followers. "I think the people who are for me are going to be the ones doing most of the voting in the runoff," the two-term state representative and father of two said. "They are the ones who have been reading the issues and following the campaign the same kind of people who are dedicated to the proposition of voting." Nunn insists that the majority of his followers are there because of his "issue-oriented" campaign, and not because he has "charisma" or is personally attractive. titmmn sM Horton (R) Jones (D): Wood(R) House District 61, Gwinnett County Wall (D) Fortune (D) Page (R) DEKALB COUNTY County Commission Chairman Dillard OR) Guhl(R) IN 11.

S. SENATE RACE Maloof (D) Post Two Moon (R) How Georgia Counties Voted No Democrat Williams (R) School Board Post Two Gmbrl Nunn Vndvr in the Georgia Demo- David (R) 195 520 Buss (R) 808 2739 Gmbrl Nunn Vndvr Post Five Henderson (D) fChambless (D) Akins (D) 213 414 328 Williamson (R) Ingram (R) GWINNETT COUNTY County Commission Chairman Atkinson (D) Pruitt (D) No Republican 'POWER IS RELEVANT' Hosea Williams who said he was going to spend the day nursing his feet after a 1,110 walking campaign tour of the state, was the only losing candidate to give some indication of who his choice might be in the runoff. "Sam Nunn called me but I couldn't support him under any circumstances. He's just a manufactured creation of Lester Maddox and big banks," Burson said. Burson, who garnered less than four per cent of the vote, is an arch political enemy of Gov.

Jimmy Carter. Nevertheless he says he could endorse Gambrell, whom Carter appointed to the Senate after COBB COUNTY County Commission Post 4 Ellison D) Jones (D) No Republican School Board Post Two Cole (D) Crowder (D) Posey (R) Post Four t- Frey (D) Perry (D) Camp (R) Post Six Lassetter (D) By JIM STEWART Fifteen defeated candidates for the U. S. Senate nomination spent Wednesday assessing their losses, adding up campaign debts and talking wistfully of a race they admit they never had a chance in. The 13 "minor" Democratic candidates amassed a combined total of only 25 per cent of the vote as Sen.

David Gambrell, State Rep. Sam Nunn and former Gov. Ernest Vandiver outpolled and out-spent them to capture the rest. Ironically the two who came closest to upsetting the front runners, civil rights leader Hosea Williams and white supremist J. B.

Stoner, both quoted George Wallace in commenting on their better heeled opponents: "There's not a dime's worth of difference in them," they said. Virtually all of the losers laid the blame for their defeat on lack of funds and unequal coverage of their races by the news media. And none were yet ready to throw their support behind either Nunn or Gambrell who face each other in a runoff Aug. 29. Hosea Williams, former trouble shooter for the late Dr.

Martin Luther King and now a civil rights activist in Atlanta, said he had no regrets about the race and was pleased with the 6 per cent plus of the vote he received. "For a $5,000 campaign, it was a great one," he said, adding a bookkeeper was at his home compiling the latest bills. Williams said his greatest achievement in the race was the construction of "a serious base of black politics in Georgia," although he was hesitant to claim the leadership of that voter bloc. "Considering my image as a rabble rousing militant civil rights leader, coming in a strong fourth was encouraging. But I'm not going to use any power that may have given me by trying to tell the black folks how to vote," he said.

"To quote Dr. King, 'power is relevant, the more you use it the less you have'," Williams said. Williams said he doubted he would endorse or support Nunn or Gambrell and said that decision would be made by a black policy-making committee of which he was a member. At the opposite end of Georgia political extremes, white supremist J. B.

Stoner, who made headlines with his flagrant use of the word "nigger" in political advertisements, was also pleased with a 6 per cent showing. "I would have liked to have done better, but when you consider I spent only $10,000 it was a victory of sorts. The front runners just plain out-spent me," he said. "I appreciate all the white votes I got and when you consider too that my support represented a group of hardcore white voters who don't want niggers either, then I feel I accomplished something." Stoner also declined to endorse a runoff candidate adding, "I know neither one is a white racist or anti-nigger like me but I'll be watching their stands on issues like gun control." State Treasurer Bill Burson, Page (D) Crump (R) County Ordinary Duncan (D) Williams (D) No Republican FULTON COUNTY Superior Court Clerk Price (D) COUNTY TP PR Irwin 10 4 Jackson 14 14 Jasper 10 10 Jeff Davis 5 5 Jefferson 10 10 Jenkins 7 0 Johnson 12 12 Jones 9 9 Lamar 6 6 Lanier 3 1 Laurens 27 27 Lee 5 3 Liberty 7 7 Lincoln 8 0 Long 5 0 Lowndes 9 3 Lumpkin 15 15 McDuffie 4 4 Mcintosh 6 5 Macon 7 7 Madison 12 9 Marion 7 7 Meriwether 19 19 Miller 3 3 Mitchell 12 10 Monroe 14 14 Montgomery 7 7 Morgan 15 15 Murray 11 10 Muscogee 33 33 Newton 16 16 Oconee 11 11 Oglethorpe 13. 1 Paulding 9 8 Peach 6 0 Pickens 3 3 Pierce 7 7 Pike 8 8 Polk 12 0 Pulaski 7 7 Putnam 10 3 Quitman 4 4 Rabun 9 9 Randolph 9 9 Richmond 48 32 Rockdale 5 2 Schley 4 0 Screven 11 5 Seminole 5 5 Spalding 15 15 Stephens 6 6 Stewart 10 4 Sumter 9 9 Talbot 11 3 Taliaferro 2 2 Tattnall 10 10 Tavlor 9 2 Telfair 6 6 Terrell 9 4 Thomas 15 15 Tift 3 8 Toombs 10 10 Towns 4 4 Treutlen 6 6 Troupe 13 11 Turner 9 9 Twiggs 10 2 Union 14 14 Upson 10 4 Walker 18 18 Walton 16 16 Ware 15 15 iVarren 9 7 Washington 20 9 Wayne 7 7 Webster 4 4 Wheeler 6 3 White 11 1 Whitfield 11 Wilcox 13 13 Wilkes 15 15 vVilkinson 10 10 Worth 13 1 Totals 2107 1691 By The Associated 1'rcss Here is the county-by-county vote cratic Senate race: COUNTY TP PR Appling 10 1 Atkinson 10 3 Bacon 7 7 Baker 5 1 Baldwin 3 5 Banks 12 12 Barrow 9 1 Bartow 15 2 Ben Hill 5 1 Berrien 9 7 Bibb 36 36 Bleckley 8 5 Brantley 8 0 Brooks Bryan 3 2 Bulloch 12 9 Burke 13 13 8 8 Cfihoun 5 3 "Camden 5 5 Candler 6 6 Carroll 17 0 Catoosa 11 11 Gharlton 7 2 Chatham 82 81 Chattanooga 1 1 Chattooga 13 13 Cherokee 16 14 Clarke 13 13 -Gay 4 4 eiayton 18 15 Clinch 8 1 Cobb 51 51 Coffee 6 6 Colquitt 17 17 Columbia 9 0 Cook 7 4 Coweta 14 3 Crawford 8 8 Crisp 6 4 Dade 12 5 Dawson 7 6 Decatur 13 11 DeKalb 114 114 Dodge 16 1 Doolv 10 10 Dougherty 10 10 Douglas 8 8 Early 11 3 Echols 5 5 Effingham 6 5 Elbert 12 Emanuel 13 13 Evans 6 i Fannin 12 0 Favttte 9 9 Flovd 24 24 Forsyth 13 Franklin 13 12 Fulton ...221 221 'rilmer 8 8 Glascock 4 0 7 7 lordon .14 13 10 in Greene 9 Gwinnett 27 25 14 12 (fall 28 23 Iiincock 7 0 laralson 13 larris 12 1 8 0 ((card 11 Ji ifonrv 14 2 12 12 345 1727 382 701 743 0 376 785 800 38 2624 149 1330 0 0 1421 946 327 1015 430 610 192 991 410 1077 980 659 883 1116 2822 1351 730 37 1033 0 159 727 498 0 490 59 96 763 731 2190 612 0 654 864 2080 1185 367 1086 87 219 1679 28 489 53 2064 1508 1326 277 793 2463 599 25 832 840 3047 2041 3190 194 135 1266 240 36 83 2253 430 699 750 618 18S540 Simmons (D) No Republican i 188 364 151 41 295 300 77 544 1330 439 6756 330 0 380 114 994 824 481 174 124 283 0 586 65 3275 159 320 895 1913 193 3652 1 5679 734 1599 0 194 117 493 1616 48 183 1527 4594 742 499 3298 1033 79 152 356 773 398 257 0 502 2591 267 127 10960 196 0 1003 40H 1119 248 2765 423 3934 0 0 46 415 245 335 572 0 355 1248 436 16 4856 129 329 0 0 907 635 337 334 751 9 293 772 368 1260 495 402 523 354 5640 813 505 2 523 0 60 232 248 0 1513 25 97 174 625 2837 462 0 176 314 1143 304 493 1611 64 221 416 40 1011 124 1379 1162 748 118 411 1388 866 60 169 375 412 20 2204 169 153 763 251 137 37 1033 1164 572 573 1267 137411 380 424 740 32 361 722 150 1188 868 780 4929 183 0 418 231 1129 807 1085 200 1003 819 0 2630 346 6126 164 2013 1277 3725 235 4213 7 7046 1363 1852 0 297 118 309 652 216 241 1296 8360 471 234 1581 1412 136 293 907 1122 3130 867 0 942 3468 539 841 22085 509 t) 2989 2010 1520 1817 4110 1280 2685 0 0 33 1549 641 365 302 295 21 205 978 183 613 571 562 1838 31 0 189 140 825 354 598 141 242 331 0 1477 144 3819 78 1670 1084 3154 187 4675 3 5772 549 674 0 150 116 145 258 109 236 220 5280 147 99 1541 1546 42 251 481 1254 495 316 0 816 3199 358 2870 10200 439 0 1130 892 382 581 3339 535 1349 0 0 0 2440 605 103 675 CLAYTON COUNTY County Commission Chairman 0 562 298 26 902 141 499 0 0 598 671 267 400 219 892 203 1039 310 480 433 463 705 728 1863 1207 726 31 1181 0 104 483 378 0 219 48 227 536 450 1837 532 0 364 349 1311 657 183 590 60 188 762 22 403 55 875 489 722 366 582 1759 308 3 633 438 1919 0 1330 125 65 534 73 77 63 1648 251 659 241 0 119063 Wells (D) West (D) No Republican; Post Two Campbell (D) Masters (R) Vaughan (D) Kicnarci Kusselrs death.

"It's It would depend on how he (Gambrell) approached me," Burson said. Lloyd Russell, said "irresponsible reporting by the Atlanta newspapers "made me look like a hyporcrite" and cost him votes in a last minute debate over his relationship to the late Sen. Russell. Russell said he has no relationship at all with the late senator and had never claimed any. "Everybody talked about it but they never asked me," he said.

Decatur lawyer Jack Dorsey also blamed the news media for his defeat. "The news played up the three major candidates from the start and psychologically it affected people who might have voted for me," Dorsey said. "They figured it wouldn't make any difference." Dorsey, who received slightly above 2 per cent of the vote, said he spent $16,000 in the losing effort. Atlanta attorney Wyman Lowe said he was happy with his one per cent plus showing because he spent less for the greatest number of votes than any other candidate. "My costs will be under $4,000.

That's less money spent statewide than I spent in any of my congressional races," he said. On the Republican side of the ballot, Howard Tucker said he figured that many of the people he shook hands with and who said they would vote for him were "pulling my leg." Tucker, who was steamrollered by U.S. Rep. Fletcher Thompson's campaign, received less votes than he had signatures on his qualifying petition. He ended up with less than 3 per cent of the vote compared to Thompson's 92 per cent.

Post Three Echols (D) Hughes x(D). Moore (R) Jones x(D) Hughes and Jones tied for second place Tuesday. Post Four Frame (D) Griswell (D) Post Five Cheaves (D) Tondee (D) Trivett (R) Reiwine (R) No Republican No Republican County Ordinary Gibbs (D) Roberts (D) State Court Solicitor Frey (D) 3 Montgomery (D 1.