Gubernatorial Campaigns
Nearly the entire DFL Party ticket was defeated in 1978, including Perpich and the candidates for both U.S. Senate seats. Governor Anderson's arrangement to have himself appointed to the Senate and Perpich's role in that appointment were deemed factors in those defeats.
Perpich worked at Control Data Corporation in New York and Austria for several years until winning back the governor's office in 1982, when he challenged the DFL Party's endorsed candidate, Warren Spannaus and won the primary election. Perpich served as the Chairman of the Midwestern Governors Association in 1984.
Perpich was re-elected in 1986, but lost the 1990 general election to Arne Carlson in a bizarre campaign in which Carlson replaced the Independent-Republican Party's candidate Jon Grunseth, who had beaten Carlson in the primary. Grunseth was forced to withdraw amid allegations of a sex scandal just two weeks before the election.
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