Page 8 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1980
Politics
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President Carter Wednesday put
on a pair of cowboy boots and
stomped through three Texas cities,
hoping to add to what his pollsters
have said is an even battle against
Ronald Reagan with scathing attacks
on the Republican and appeals to
blue and white collar workers.
He opened the trip in Beaumont
with a tour of a newly built jack-up
drill rig at Bethlehem Shipyard and
then appeared at rallies in Waco and
Texarkana, appealing to working
class crowds, telling them their in
terests would be better protected if
he is elected.
“When you vote, think about your
family, think about your future,” he
said. “We believe in people and in
their welfare. The Republicans talk
big, but they talk to big business
mostly.
“Since I’ve been president, unem
ployment has decreased 30 percent
in Texas, and the per capita income
of people in this state has increased
40 percent.”
Carter, however, got the most
mileage from a pair of cowboy boots
presented to him at the Beaumont
airport by Rep. Jack Brooks, D-
Texas.
He put them on during the flight
to Waco and — to the obvious plea
sure of the crowd — rolled up his
pant leg and showed them to the
crowd, and repeated his threat:
“They’re stomping boots to stomp
Republicans on Nov. 4.”
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Donning cowboy
boots. President
Carter Wednesday
told Texans that they
were “stomping boots
to stomp Republicans
on Nov. 4,” as he spoke
to generally friendly
crowds in Beaumont,
Waco and Texarkana.
of China?” he asked.
The president’s trip overlapped by
a day that of Massachusetts Senator
Edward Kennedy who went to south
Texas Tuesday and Wednesday to
get out the vitally important Mex
ican-American vote.
Carter gave generally friendly
crowds stem-winding, anti-
Republican speeches and took ob
vious pleasure — for the first time in
the campaign — in tying Reagan
with former President Richard
Nixon.
LOS ANG
At that comment, a score of young
Reagan supporters attempted to
heckle him. Carter, looking straight
at them, said: “Republicans have a
habit of spreading a lot of horse
manure around. And as you know,
it’s getting pretty deep all over the
country.”
Carter said he is running even
with Reagan in Texas polls and
appealed to central Texans to stay
with him. He emphasized his crea
tion of diplomatic relations with Chi
na last year as a critical move for
Texas, which was opposed by the Re
publicans and by Reagan.
He said exports to China are now
totaling more than $2 billion a year,
much of it from Texas.
“Did you know that the No. 1
buyer of Texas cotton is the Republic
“Former President Richard Nix
on, one of the great Republican pres
idents, as you know, has been writ
ing campaign advisory memos for
Ronald Reagan,” Carter said in
Waco. “When I saw where Ronald
Reagan was getting his advice, I be
gan to understand a few of the things
he has been saying a little better.
management employee, said he
lieves Carter’s characterizatii
Reagan as a warmonger.
“I’m more afraid of Reagan
what he would do, ” Kane said.'
liable to go into Iran and
terrible, terrible mess, get us; ”°
something that we couldn’t get
of.”
A young union painter wearinj
Reagan-Bush button said them ? L ‘
more resentment toward Cm pn ^ ut
among the workers than was ^ ’
dent. “I could have soldathoi
of these buttons,” he said.
Dorothy Young, an administnt
assistant to the plant general m
ger, said “We haven’t heard ah
the recession down here yet.
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“Yesterday Governor Reagan
announced he has a secret plan to get
the hostages back. Those of you who
remember when Richard Nixon ran
against Hubert Humphrey probably
find that sounding familiar.” Carter
recalled that just before the 1968
election Nixon said he had a secret
plan to win the war in Vietnam.
At Beaumont, about 900 hardhats
watched Carter speak from the deck
of Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s
“Gulfdrill I” rig. Most of a sample of
those workers said they would vote
for Carter, but for varied reasons.
Draftsman Rocky Kane, 24, a
The shipyard, she said,
enough orders for oil and natural KL ’ D . ° r
drilling rigs to keep the pre, fSf* '
2,000 employees busy through 1J a i . ur '
Carter touched on the succes sur ^ ei
the shipyard as a model for i
parts of the nation hard hit by
recession.
“I want the people all over
nation, through the televisonai birrban Ra:
as and otherwise, to see whatyat
doing because it reassures them’
said.
Applause followed Carter’s a
ment praising his administrate
de-regulating the price of oi
natural gas. “The number ofd
gas wells to be drilled in 198M
the highest ever in the historydi
country," he said.
Reagan gets money instead
TRC candidates lack fund
United Press International
AUSTIN — Two Republican chal
lengers for places on the powerful
Texas Railroad Commission have
been short-circuited by a lack of cam
paign funding, and in one instance
personal financial woes have trans
formed what had been expected to
be heated battles into a lackluster
campaign.
Gov. Bill Clements promised
almost a year ago he would find qual
ified and well-financed candidates to
challenge the Democratic nominees
for the two open Railroad Commis
sion seats, but one of the nominees
has not campaigned at all and the
other says the presidential race has
sipho ned away all available
financing.
Henry Grover, a former GOP
nominee for governor who easily
won the party’s nomination without
campaigning, is opposing Democrat
Buddy Temple for a full term on the
commission. But once again, Grover
has not campaigned and does not re
spond to telephone inquiries about
his campaign.
There is speculation Grover’s own
financial problems have forced him
to maintain a low profile in the race.
He has been sued six times in the last
three years for failing to pay $74,000
in loans. He did not file an answer to
five of the suits, saying they all were
essentially true.
“I don’t like it (the debts) and I’m
working like hell to get out from
under it,” he said. “I could have
taken bankruptcy, but that wouldn’t
have relieved me of the moral obliga
tion of owing money.”
Despite his debts, Grover said he
spent $30,000 of his own money this
year on newspaper advertisements
for John Connally’s unsuccessful
campaign for the GOP presidential
nomination.
While his campaign is almost in
visible, Temple has been the leading
spender among the Railroad Com
mission candidates. Reports filed
with the secretary of state show Tem
ple has spent $954,212 in his cam
paign for the $51,000-a-year job.
Most of the expenditures were in his
primary campaign against incum
bent John Poemer.
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publican H.J. Blanchard, afo# 11 I don’t
Democratic state senator, andhjfl ,er him but
tauian candidate David HutzekiPns.
Blanchaird saiid he was assui
adequate campaign funding wk
switched parties to enter the
but saiid his efforts have been
lyzed by a lack of money
Blanchaird contends all avaJ
campaign contributions have
chamneled into Ronald Reagan’s
against President Carter and sait]
primau-y prospects for an upset
would be on the coattails of Rei
the GOP nominee should sw
Texa^ Nov. 4.
“I guess maybe I’m relieved
this,” Blanchard saiid. “If there
lamdslide situation, it would
me something no other railroad
missioner has ever had — a
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thing
Hutzelman, who is cam’
on a platform to abolish the coi
sion that regulates the petrol#
and transportation industries, a I
cedes his victory prospects are |
tremely slim.
“It’s obviously a longshottk
would win the race, although Iff
only have to get 34 percent oil
vote,” he said.
“As a realistic objective, Ihofii
get more votes than (the nuifl
that) separate Blanchard and 5
gent. That would force the De t-
crats to start paying more atteit! I;
to Libertarian issues.”
Nugent, a former state repres
tative from Kerrville, hast!
paigned extensively, trumpeti«
commission’s record since bf'
appointed and claiming signig
strides in favor of consumer pi
tion.
Temple, also a state repress^
tive, has kept his fall campaign^
lower key than the primary, wbi
was battling the incumbent Poem: I
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