36 CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PINS COLLECTION, 1962-72

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36 CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PINS COLLECTION, 1962-72
36 CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PINS COLLECTION, 1962-72
Collection of 36 political pins, some scarce, of the California Democratic Party, most for political candidates, some for related political causes.
In chronological order:
1960? 2 Kennedy pins probably from the 1960 presidential election
1962:
2 pins of California State Senator Richard Richards, who unsuccessfully challenged Republican incumbent US Senator Kuchel
6 pins of incumbent California Governor Edmund G. Brown, and 1 small pin of a California bear, probably connected with the Brown campaign
1 soiled anti-Brown pin “Sweep Out Brown (SOB)”
1 pin of Assemblyman Thomas Rees for California State Senate; three years later, he was elected to the US Congress
2 pins opposing State Proposition 24, purportedly anti-Communist “Control of Subversive Activities” which was opposed by civil liberties groups and was defeated
1 undated pin, soiled, calling for the abolition of Capital Punishment
1964:
5 Lyndon Johnson for President pins, including 1 2.5” flasher pin “All The Way With LBJ”. Also includes 5 “LBJ for the USA” stickers
2 pins of State Controller Alan Cranston who was defeated by former Kennedy Press Secretary Pierre Salinger in the Democratic Primary for US Senate; Cranston won the seat four years later.
2 stick pins of Salinger (one with a take on the Beatles song, “P.S. I love you”) who beat Cranston in the Primary but then lost to Republican George Murphy
3 rare pins opposing State Proposition 14, which would have overturned a state law sponsored by Black Assemblyman Byron Rumford banning racial discrimination in housing sales. It was opposed by the real estate profession; one of the pins bears the humorous legend, “Would you want your daughter to marry a realtor?”, a take on the old racist canard. The Proposition passed but was later overturned by the US Supreme Court.
3 pins of state legislative races in San Francisco, one of Philip Burton for US Congress, one of his brother John for State Assembly, and one of Black leader Willie Brown for another Assembly seat.  When his brother died, John Burton was elected to his seat in Congress.  Brown later became the first Black Speaker of the State Assembly and Mayor of San Francisco
Undated, one small pin with a picture of a dove and the motto, “Disarm”
1966:
1 pin of Assemblyman Rumford, sponsor of the Fair Housing law, as a candidate for State Senate; he was narrowly defeated by the Republican candidate in a bitterly contested election in which there were charges of ballot fraud
1972:
4 George McGovern for President pins, one with the peace motto “Think About the Children”