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By the early 1960's, the changing population of Berkeley led to an increasingly liberal Democrat political scene. There still remained a sizable conservative population. Fred E. Huntley, a member of the John Birch society, ran for mayor of Berkeley in 1967. His position: "It makes me sick to see my hometown turned into a nationwide joke, to have our own newspaper have to refer to a section of our city as 'an open sewer.' But unfortunately it is true. What kind of a town to raise our children has Berkeley become under the leadership of our current mayor." Huntley placed third in the race. The incumbent Wallace Johnson, a moderately conservative Republican, won. Jerry Rubin, placed second. Peter Camejo, Young Social Alliance, placed last.
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