{"id":100,"date":"2012-05-03T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.ruudmedia.com\/gsc\/?p=100"},"modified":"2017-12-06T12:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T12:21:27","slug":"gray-davis-former-campaign-manager-garry-south-donates-campaign-materials-to-ucla-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/gray-davis-former-campaign-manager-garry-south-donates-campaign-materials-to-ucla-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Davis\u2019 Former Campaign Manager Garry South Donates Campaign Materials to UCLA Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former California Gov. Gray Davis’ former campaign manager Garry South recently donated a collection of the governor’s election campaign documents to the UCLA Library.<\/p><\/div>\n

The\u00a0UCLA\u00a0Library recently announced it has added a collection of election campaign documents from a former California governor to its archive of political documents and materials.<\/p>\n

An assortment of videos, study groups, research, correspondence and other documents from the gubernatorial campaigns of former Gov. Gray Davis has been donated by his former campaign manager Garry South.<\/p>\n

The collection will be stored in the Southern Regional Library Facility on UCLA\u2019s campus. It can be accessed in the Young Research Library reading room upon request, and is in the process of being digitized, so students around the UC system can access a portion of the collection by the fall.<\/p>\n

Collections such as South\u2019s can be valuable for students and researchers within various disciplines, said Tim Groeling, chair of the communication studies department who specializes in political communications.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudying elections is historically important,\u201d\u009d Groeling said. \u201cBehind-the-scenes material gives you an idea of how people were attempting to appeal to the public and what strategies they used.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

South said he hopes the materials will open up a window to the inner workings of a political campaign. His decision to donate to a University of California school was influenced by Davis\u2019 past as a voting member on the UC Board of Regents, while Davis was lieutenant governor and then governor. Davis was not available for comment as of press time.<\/p>\n

Convenience and proximity was a factor in choosing\u00a0UCLA, said South, who lives in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n

Until now, he had been storing the documents \u201c\u201c contained in 55 boxes \u201c\u201c at his own expense in a climate-controlled storage facility. They had been there for more than 10 years, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason I waited 10 years was because I thought it was a respectable time to wait,\u201d\u009d South said.<\/p>\n

South said that without central depositories for documents or materials, it is rare to have such an extensive collection after an election campaign. He added that with the use of computers, it is less likely that campaigns will use and preserve hard copies of correspondence or other campaign documents.<\/p>\n

The collection will include television advertisements made for the campaign that were not aired during the election season. Preparatory research on Davis conducted by his staff and personal campaign correspondence will also be included.<\/p>\n

South said he ultimately wants the collection, which is being presented in its entirety, to remain intact.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a historian at heart. Once these documents are thrown away, they do not exist anymore,\u201d\u009d South said. \u201cNothing has been taken out. (UCLA\u00a0is) seeing everything.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

Garry South Collection of Political Research is an addition to UCLA\u2019s already extensive collection of political documents, said Sharon Farb, associate university librarian. The collection includes papers from politicians such as former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, among others, Farb said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0UCLA\u00a0Library recently announced it has added a collection of election campaign documents from a former California governor to its archive of political documents and materials. An assortment of videos, study groups, research, correspondence and other documents from the gubernatorial campaigns of former Gov. Gray Davis has been donated by his former campaign manager Garry South. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}