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From: Pasadena Star-News
Date: 20070624
Author:Sid Gally

Some Pasadenans today may remember when author and former Pasadena resident Upton Sinclair ran for governor of California in 1934 on the Democratic Party ticket.

In those Depression years, Sinclair proposed the EPIC, or End Poverty in California, platform. He lost after business leaders and newspaper editors campaigned against him, but he received almost 900,000 votes.

It may be less remembered that Sinclair had run for office several times before on the Socialist Party ticket, twice as candidate for governor.

The Pasadena Star-News on May 1, 1926, printed Sinclair's letter written to his ...

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