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AUSTIN — A West Texas representative has prop
osed legislation which would prohibit a politician from
telling lies about his opponent during a political cam
paign by making the liar subject to a civil damages suit.
Rep. Bob Simpson, D-Amarillo, said Thursday his
“truth in campaigning” bill would allow candidates for
public office to collect monetary damages if they suffer
politically from untrue statements made by their oppo
nents.
Simpson, who claims he has been a victim of unfair
campaign tactics, said a candidate would be able to
recover the amount of money an opponent spent making
the false statements as well as the amount the victimized
candidate must spend to refute the allegations.
“My opponent talked about me being a labor’s boy,
which in my district is very bad, ” Simpson said. "He also
implied that I was working to repeal the right-to-work
law, which is an out-and-out lie and political dynamite in
my district. ”
Amarillo’s economy is entirely based on agriculture
and its residents are strongly in favor of the right-to-
work law, he explained.
“A local union there had endorsed me, yes, but to tie
my endorsement to working to repeal the right-to-work
law is totally fallacious,” Simpson said.
His bill, co-authored by Rep. Lanny Hall, D-Fort
Worth, also would allow a candidate to recover attor
ney’s fees and to obtain an injunction preventing the
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Battalion Staff
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opponent from repeating the false statements.
Simpson believes candidates are "open game for open
abuse, ’ under current libel and slander laws.
"It creates an opportunity for someone who is willing
to Ue and use the ‘big lie’ technique to do that knowing
nothing can be done about it,’ Simpson said. "The
politician is not the one who gets hurt from the deal. The
public is the one who loses. They may vote against
someone based on misinformation.”
Simpson had introduced legislation during the last
session which provided for the American Arbitration
Association to come in and settle unfair campaign prac
tice disputes, but the bill died in a subcommittee.
As it stands now, candidates have two choices when
charged with false statements, Simpson said.
"You can either ignore it and not respond to it, but by
doing that there’s a lot of people who are going to believe
it’s true,” he said. ‘The other approach is deny it and try
to set the record straight, but that adds publicity to the
charge itself. You’re putting the public in the position of
trying to find the truthfulness of a candidate.”
Simpson admits that some legislators now in office are
the same ones who employed unfair campaign tactics.
“In the middle of a hot political campaign people start
thinking more about the ends than the means,” he said.
“People who are otherwise upstanding citizens use un
fair campaign tactics. ”
By SUSAN DITTMAN
Battalion Reporter
You’d never know they were still
learning.
The Alvin Ailey Repertory En
semble gave a skillful but sometimes
bizarre performance to about 1,300
people at Texas A&M University’s
Rudder Auditorium Thursday night.
Tonight’s 8 p.m. show will be slightly
different than Thursday’s.
The dances ranged from colorful
jazz to sultry modem with a touch of
exotic ballet.
The twelve members of this
traveling group are part of the Alvin
Ailey School of Dance. Although
they are students, they exhibit art on
stage that reflects the professional
style. This style is developed as they
perform on stages all over the United
States.
The opening number, full of ex
uberant movements and bright yel
low and orange costumes, set a mood
of celebration that was broken only
by a few dances mid-way through the
show.
This second set of dances, entitled
“I See The Moon ... And The Moon
Sees Me” was a quartet of lifts, fren
zied floor movements, solos and
high-flying leaps — all combined to
depict the moon in four different
phases. But the music, which sound
ed like every thing from a space odw
sey pin ball machine to an ocean
windstorm, did not mesh with the
theme the dancers tried to convey
The third act revived the celebr*-
tion atmosphere through a series of
short dances set to traditional blad
gospel tunes, such as “Didn’t My
Lord Deliver Daniel” and “I Want to
be Ready.” Beginning with solemn
and dramatic motions, the dancen
pleaded with and praised God b»
reaching and gazing hopefully to
wards the sky. After several similai
dances, the mood became light
joyous. The entire company pranced
on stage dressed in white, complete
with streamers, scarves and umbrel
las. The accompanying steel drum
music set many toes tapping in the
audience.
The finale was typical of a Sunday
revival in a hot country church. The
women did an almost comical piece
with old fashioned fans, wooden
stools and yellow floppy hats. They
were joined on stage by the men,
wearing their Sunday best.
Together, they concluded the per
formance with an energetic dance to
“Rocka My Soul in the Bosom
Abraham”, receiving a standing
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