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JEWISH HERALD-VOICE
Page SIX
EDITORIAL COMMENT
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR VOTERS’
CONSIDERATION, TUESDAY, NOV. 3 Stop the dirty tricks campaign, vote
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KEEP A WARY EYE ON RUSSIA
By HERSCHELZVI
District 6
Don Coffey
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For your consideration in the General Election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, the Jewish Herald- for Scott Hochberg: Rep. Paul Colbert
Voice offers the following recommendations:
United States President
and Vice President
Bill Clinton and Al Gore
United States Representative
District 8
Jack M. Fields, Jr.
District 18
Edward Blum
District 22
Tom DeLay
District 25
Mike Andrews
District 29
Gene Green
Railroad Commissioner
. Lena Guerrero
Justice Supreme Court
Placet
Oscar H. Mauzy.
Place 2
Rose Spector
Places
Jack Hightower
Judge, Court of Criminal
Appeals, Placet
Charles F. (Charlie) Baird
Place 2.
Morris L. Overstreet
.Place 3
Pete Benevides
State Senator, District 4
Carl A. Parker
Over the past few weeks, several political ads containing numerous
distortions and inaccuracies have appeared in the Herald-Voice on
behalf of the Republican who is running for my seat in the Legislature.
This campaign has also mailed even more misleading pieces, and in
violation of state campaign laws, has begun a "dirty tricks" telephone
operation run by the same dirty campaigners who were convicted a
few years ago of forging signatures. After so much garbage from the -
Republicans, I feel compelled to set the record straight.
The final straw was the publication in the Oct. 15 Herald of a "10-
point anti-crime action plan" supposedly written by Mr. Sanchez, the
Republican. In fact, nine of the ten points came wholly or in
part from my comprehensive anti-crime bill of last session,
which I wrote together with the assistance of and based on research
by Scott Hochberg, who was my legislative aide and is the Democratic
candidate running for my seat.
Aside from this blatant rip-off, even more misleading is Sanchez's
alleged support for using tents to house prisoners. In the previous
week's Herald, Sanchez expressed support for the "prison bill written
and passed by conservatives". What he neglected to mention Was that
this bill, HB124, made use of tents illegal in Texas, no matter what
any court rules. It also would only increase capacity by 2,500 beds,
not the 25,000 he claims. What's worse, the authors of that bill led
the fight to kill Scott's and my proposal to require the use of tents
and other temporary housing to stop early release of prisoners.
Another misrepresentation by Sanchez' occurred in the previous
week's ad. In it, he claimed that the "liberal majority in both houses",
which in fact does not exist, had rejected Comptroller John Sharp's
"restraint of spending". The facts: about two-thirds of Sharp's rec-
ommendations were adopted. The major items that failed to pass were:
1) His recommendation to drastically cut state support for Higher
Education in general and medical education and research in particu-
lar. Had it passed, the UT Health Science Center, Baylor Medical
School and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, all in our legislative dis-
trict, would have been gutted.
2) The proposal to penalize school districts that waste money on
excessive administration, a bill that I authored. This bill was killed on
technical point of order raised by the Republican floor leader on edu-
cation, who also proposed cutting state aid to HISD by $80 million.
Had the Republicans been successful in this move (and they lost by
only a few votes), our school taxes would have had to go up by an
additional $.18 just to break even. Sanchez has indicated he would
vote solidly with those Republicans. He also has actively opposed the
Texas "Head Start" education program, and has implied that support
of such a program is somehow "anti-family". ,
The most truthful statement in Sanchez’s ad is when he describes
himself as "a zealot". He is an anti-choice, anti-public education
knee-jerk follower of the Pat Buchanan extreme right. He has told
Jewish groups he would support Hate Crimes legislation while assur-
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A secondary cause of the ab- Russia this winter is folly. , *
sence of foreign policy debate is To his credit, Ross Perot did
the "America First" rhetoric of raise this issue during one of the
it should be a national scandal Pat Buchanan's primary campaign, debates. He said it was sad that
that foreign policy has received Though he was correctly ridi- the U.S. has done little to help,
so little attention during the al- culed for this by many in the the Yeltsin government. Neither,
most-concluded campaign. Presi- press, it found a certain resonance Bush nor Clinton offered any en- j
dent Bush has proclaimed that, in the population, which fed the lightened response to his com-
based on his superior experience, "What are you going to do for ment, and it was not a topic of
he alone can be trusted to serve us?" mentality of much of the discussion during the post-debate
in the Oval Office. Governor Clin- electorate. spin cycle.
ton has had very little to say on The avoidance of foreign policy Yeltsin faces a horrendous sit-
matters of foreign policy, elicit- debate has allowed President uation. His nation is surrounded
ing some concern from U.S. allies. Bush to get away with his claim by wars, in the former Yugoslavia,
The press has played a major that the world is much more se- between Armenia and Azerbaijan,
role in steering the discussion cure today than at any time since and civil wars in Georgia, and
away from foreign policy, through the beginning of the Cold War, Tajikistan, just to name the most
a little ruse it has employed since that for the first time in years bloody. Further, the economy has
the President's highly unsuccess- we can go to sleep at night with- been devastated by the effects of
ful visit to Japan. Citing polls that out the fear of nuclear annihila- the so-called free market reforms
the American people think Bush tion. demanded by western nations
cares more about other countries This is pure nonsense. While a and imposed by the International
than he does for the fate of his
own nation (polls which are
stoked by press coverage which
fosters that belief), the campaigns
have chosen to focus instead on
domestic issues.
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