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For two terms, Booth Gardner breathed life into stale old Oly. Gov. Dan Evans had moved on, followed by prickly Dixy Lee Ray (once described as Sarah Palin with a PhD) and the constant-yet-colorless pipe-smoker John Spellman. In 1984, Gardner swept onto the political stage with youth, charisma, money and optimism.