In 1998, Garry South managed the come-from-behind, landslide victory of then-Lt. Gov. Gray Davis for governor of California – the first sitting Lieutenant Governor of the state in 72 years to win the governorship in his own right, and the only Democrat ever to do so. But at one point in the campaign, Davis was…
In 1992, California state Controller Gray Davis made what many considered an ill-advised run against former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate to take on GOP Sen. John Seymour. Seymour, a state Senator and former mayor of Anaheim, had been appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson in 1991 to…
In 1987 Garry South was hired through a national search process to be the first-ever Communications Director for Ohio Gov. Richard F. Celeste. Celeste handily had won a second term the year before, but his poll numbers were among the lowest of any sitting governor, due to an abortive presidential exploratory run earlier in the…