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(Continued from pagel.) spent time analyzing past voting
In fact, money seemed to weigh ^cords and patterns, examining
avilv in the Mowery campaign ; hem P^cmct by precinct. In addi-
mbeginning to end. “We ran dry Derbyshire said one of the
4ggie campaign manager
THE BATTALION Page 13
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1978
eral weeks ago,” he said, “and s fie r ld men s »gpsted «sing a
' ies had to come up with the money P° ^ f r1 ^ a ^ oimer
nse ]f •’ member of the RNC.
It was strange to find a campaign “They play a little game called
mager who was not a hard-bitten going to Washington D.C. and if
ofessional. Though Darbyshire they want you to hire a consultant,
spresident of the College Repub- you should hire the one they
ans at Texas A&M ’75-76, he said suggest. ”
had no desire to enter politics as He said Mowery s campaign may
areer. have run afoul of the RNC by disre-
“H’s a hobby of mine, ” he ex- garding their advice in hiring a dif-
lined. “I get interested in issues, ferent consultant later in the cam-
d try to make my beliefs a paign.
ility.
So, when Mowery approached
n for the job during his ’77
ristmas vacation, Darbyshire said
had to think of school first.
I Darbyshire met Mowery at Texas
M, and he met Mowery s wife at
National Republican Conven-
n in Kansas City where they both
re delegates. Through the ac-
■aintance, Darbyshire said,
| jwery asked him to serve as cam-
manager during the ’78 spring
Mnester.
Darbyshire said he decided to
jsh his spring semester first and
Ip with the campaign as much as
could.
iThat was a disaster,” he said,
[e campaign was always on his
id — “like a disease it grows on
he said, and his grades suf-
Tt’s funny that the Republican
party cries about bureaucracy but
has one themselves,” he remarked.
Darbyshire said being a student
with an engineering background
was not always a help. He had flow
charts and tables outling what
everybody needed to do and when.
“I thought everyone would want
to know exactly what they were get
ting into,” he said.
But he was wrong.
“One old boy in Robertson Coun
ty...! laid out all these charts and it
blew his mind. He said, ‘There’s no
way I can do this.’
“I scared him off, maybe others
too,” he recalled with a smile.
Darbyshire slouched in a chair in
the empty campaign headquarters.
Behind a partition <vas a bank of
phones and on a coffee table were
unused bumper stickers and litera
ture. “Aggies for Wes Mowery,”
one bumper sticker read.
It was late.
Darbyshire unplugged the televi
sion set and the radio and prepared
to go home. His career as a cam
paign manager was over, and he said
he was going to finish working on his
master’s degree in business.
Earlier in the evening, he uttered
the quintessential Aggie comment
on the night’s outcome: “We we
ren’t beaten,” he said with a tired
smile, “we just got outvoted.”
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Ie stayed out of school during
summer and the fall ’78 semes-
first working in Fort Worth as
» overall campaign manager,
ter funds grew tight and he asked
transferred to College Station
|erehe felt he could be more use-
At that point Mowery split his
ipaign into three districts.
lesides learning about people, he
led about himself. The 13-hour
ts taught Darbyshire about
(urance.
Ie also had a chance to view
politics from the inside. He
led about the effect of money on
ipaigns. He said that in apathetic
[paigns like this one, media play
reater role than in elections
ire people are keyed up.
Ie also learned the problems of
ling with national party head-
rters. Though he was sent to the
Ps week-long campaign man-
seminar, other help from the
ional Republican Committee
C) was meager.
arbyshire said the benchmark
were useful tools. In addition
tudying the polls, he said he
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