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==Political life==
==Political life==
Though Bass was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], the offices of mayor and city council are nonpartisan in all Texas municipalities. Bass met in Lubbock with [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], on the day before<ref name=ford>{{cite web|url=http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/diary/pdd760430.pdf|title=The Daily Diary of President Gerald R. Ford, April 30, 1976|publisher=ford.utexas.edu|accessdate=January 5, 2011}}</ref> Ford lost his fight to challenger [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]] for all delegates at stake in the Texas [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[primary]] election held on May that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914158,00.html|title=Republicans: Reagan's Startling Texas Landslide|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''|date=May 10, 1976|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> The Ford diary does not indicate that Bass crossed party lines to endorse Ford but relates merely that he, along with [[radio]] broadcaster [[Clint Formby]] of Plainview in Hale County, greeted the President.<ref name=ford/>
Though Bass was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], the offices of mayor and city council are nonpartisan in all Texas municipalities. Bass met in Lubbock with [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], on the day before<ref name=ford>{{cite web|url=http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/diary/pdd760430.pdf|title=The Daily Diary of President Gerald R. Ford, April 30, 1976|publisher=ford.utexas.edu|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> Ford lost his fight to challenger [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]] for all delegates at stake in the Texas [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[primary]] election held on May that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914158,00.html|title=Republicans: Reagan's Startling Texas Landslide|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''|date=May 10, 1976|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> The Ford diary does not indicate that Bass crossed party lines to endorse Ford but relates merely that he, along with [[radio]] broadcaster [[Clint Formby]] of Plainview in Hale County, greeted the President.<ref name=ford/>
George Kennett Hobbs (1929–2010), a native of Ardmore in southeastern [[Oklahoma]], was Bass's law partner and mayoral campaign manager. Hobbs left Lubbock in 1987 and relocated to [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2010-12-01/kennett-hobbs|title=Kennett Hobbs obituary|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=December 1, 2010|accessdate=January 5, 2011}}</ref>
George Kennett Hobbs (1929–2010), a native of Ardmore in southeastern [[Oklahoma]], was Bass's law partner and mayoral campaign manager. Hobbs left Lubbock in 1987 and relocated to [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2010-12-01/kennett-hobbs|title=Kennett Hobbs obituary|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=December 1, 2010|accessdate=January 5, 2011}}</ref>