The amazing saga of Tom Mechling and his historic race for the U.S. Senate
A young anti-Mafia reform candidate takes on Nevada's McCarran-Blitz machine
Above is a screenshot of a partial memorandum that Tom Mechling of Washington Watch Editors sent me on November 4, 1988. He told me this wonderful story a few years later.
Tall and slim, Tom Mechling was a popular 31-year-old crusading journalist based in Washington, whom everyone in the D.C. media community knew as an All-American boy. On N…
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