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100:. Sargent requested that Barnstead call a special meeting of the Republican State Committee so he and Sheehan could debate before them and have one of them receive the party's endorsement. Barnstead declined to call the special meeting "for the convenience of the Governor" and said that any debate between Sargent and Sheehan should be held publicly. The Republican State Committee decided to host a debate on September 5, however no endorsement vote would be taken after it.
67:'s 22 (the fourth candidate, Richard Manelis, received 1). Barnstead withdrew from the race after the first ballot, leaving Hahn and Wahlrab as the only candidates on the second ballot. Hahn won 40 to 23. The following year, Wahlrab defeated Hahn in his bid for reelection amid allegations that Hahn was being investigated by the State Attorney General's office for fraud.
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