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The Rich Rise of Lamar Alexander
Ireland, Doug | April 17, 1995 issue

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The article focuses on the presidential candidate Lamar Alexander, the toughest potential Republican opponent of the U.S. President Bill Clinton. The two ex-governors are both masters of the Permanent Campaign. Alexander's greatest screw-up as governor was the prison crisis of 1985. During his campaign, he had appealed to the law-and-order vote with a scheme called "Class X," which essentially lengthened the amount of mandatory time served for a wide variety of felonies. When he implemented this gimmick as governor, Alexander failed to provide any money to accommodate the increased prison population.

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ALEXANDER, Lamar; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; PRESIDENTS -- United States -- Election; CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; PRISON reformers; GOVERNORS -- United States; UNITED States
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