Friday, Sep. 23, 1966
They Love Lucey
Patrick J. Lucey, the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, wears a gold PT-109 tie clasp and has been a politi cal shipmate of the Kennedys since the 1960 primary. Democratic National Committeeman David Carley, 38, is a longtime friend of Hubert Humphrey's.
Yet the Lucey-Carley battle for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination was not, as it was widely touted to be, a Kennedy-Humphrey confrontation, since Carley's views on Viet Nam put him in Bobby's corner and Lucey sup ports the Administration war policy championed by Humphrey. Largely on the basis of his performance in the statehouse, Lucey, 48, defeated Carley by 127,465 votes to 96,298, now faces long odds in his campaign to deny popular Republican Governor Warren P.
Knowles a second term.
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