He was the Cowboy Governor.
He could work a room better than any politician New Mexico's ever known.
In some ways he was New Mexico's Yogi Berra, famous for malapropisms -- the most famous being his warning about opening "a box of Pandoras." When I was in college I heard him say at a political rally we should all "knock on doorbells" for George McGovern. And we loved him for it.
He was the state's only 3-term governor.
Former Gov. Bruce King died overnight at the age of 85.
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