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Hi**************** Battalion/Page 14 November 1,1982 Republican (continued from page 1) ernor is re-elected will be more significant, I think, than the fact that we elected one in the first place,” he said. “It will show that the governor’s elec tion was not a ’78 fluke.” the Democratic state govern- The Republicans also are hoping to pick up other state wide offices; they’re making se rious efforts to win the lieute nant governor’s race and the race for attorney general. “If we can pick up one or two more statewide offices, it will show we’ve made tremedous in roads into monopoly on merit,” Ward said. But the main event, for the GOP, is the governor’s race. And that emphasis reflects the history of the party’s develop ment in Texas over the past two decades. In 1961, John Tower became the first Republican to win any statewide office in Texas since Reconstruction. He was elected to fill the senate seat left vacant by Lyndon Johnson’s election to the vice presidency, and his elec tion led to the first announce- Snow Ski Apparel Ski Rentals Bib and Ski Jacket $ 25 for a week rental ($4.00 Cleaning Fee) Reserve yours early for the Holidays! * * * * * •X* * * * * * * * * * * TRI-STATE A&M SPORTING GOODS 3600 Old Cctttegc Road 846-4743 846-4748 ments that Texas was finally en tering a two-party era. But no other Republican won a statewide race until 1978, when Clements became gov ernor. In the meantime, Republi cans won little representation in the state government. In the 1981 Legislature, only four out of 31 state senators and 23 out of 150 state representatives were Republicans. And after the 1980 election, six of the state’s 24 U.S. repre sentatives and one of its two U.S. senators was a Republican. But even with their low rep resentation in other offices, Re publicans are choosing to con centrate on a few big races. “We have our usual optimism that we’ll pick up a few seats in the Legislature,” Ward said. “But we’re concentrating on the statewide offices; that’s where the action is. That's where the power is.” The Republicans say that the mechanism of state government is run from the top: by the gov ernor, the lieutenant governor and a few other officials. “If we can win those races, eventually the others (seats in the Legislature) will follow,” Ward said. The Democrats dispute that. “Even if we lose, this state is going to remain basically Demo cratic,” Gagen said. “We repre- WOULD YOU WALK ACROSS CAMPUS FOR SELF IMPROVEMENT? How about for a Hair Style? BILL’S BARBER & STYLE SHOP “Just a Walk across campus” Northgate - Next to Campus Theatre 846-2228 sent Texans all Texans — better than the Republicans do.” Part of the dispute hinges on the question of who Texans are. In the 1980 election, many said Republican victories were due to the movement of white-collar workers into Texas from states where the Republican Party is strong. That immigration, it was said, was permanently changing the face of Texas politics. But the character of immig ration has changed since the be ginning of the recession; recent immigrants have tended to be more blue-collar than white- collar. “In 1980, it was common knowledge that the influx of people from the Frost Belt states was making the state more con servative and less Democratic,”' Ward said. “Now, of course, some have said that the unem ployment situation in the Frost Belt states is changing that. “We had been getting people who were disillusioned by the Democratic policies of high taxation and extensive govern ment regulation in the northern states. The whole climate for business is better here and we had a lot of entrepreneurs com ing down to get ahead. “Now that’s changed. People are coming here out of despera tion and remaining here. They don’t have jobs up North so they come down here and still can’t find jobs. Their remaining here could change the (political) character of the state.” However, the Democrats don’t feel that the immigration is making much of a dif ference. Environmental laws called northern plot United Press International NEW YORK — A debate is brewing over whether the feder al environmental laws really were enacted to protect nature and human health or were pushed through by the urban north and big business to curb the drift of industry to the Sun belt and the west. Prof. B. Peter Pashigian of the University of Chicago Gra duate Business School con ducted a survey for the Center for the Study of American Busi ness based at Washington Uni versity in St. Louis. It asserts flat ly that the passage of such laws as the national Clean Air Act re sulted partly, and perhaps pri marily, from the desire of the advanced industrial sections of the country to protect their re gional self-interest. Pashigian told UPI the study was a pure research project and that none of the foundations contributing to funding it had any political and financial in terest in the findings. A new book by veteran jour nalist William Tucker calls en vironmentalism a chilling, inhu man, reactionary creed and asserts that “environmentalism helps big business firms main tain their dominance at the ex pense of small firms.” But another recent book, “The Angry West” by Gov. Richard Lamm of Colorado and Michael McCarthy, which is very pro-environmentalist in tone, takes an almost opposite stand. The authors accuse the east ern establishment states and big business of seeking to destroy the western states’ naturally clean environment by coal strip mining, shale oil extraction, wa ter pollution and over- exploitation, while at the same time grabbing and hoarding half the west’s valuable soil and timber in federal public land holdings. They assert environ mentalism protects the West from the predatory East. Professor Pashigian’s study, “The Political Economy of the Clean Air Act,” is an analysis of the votes in Congress over the years for environmental legisla tion. It was intended to deter mine the motivations that actually resulted in control of the environment being taken away from the states by the fed eral government. 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His efforts to improve the quality of public education for your children and grandchildren begin in the classroom. He is for improving teacher salaries and benefits. He is for giving more control to local school districts. HOBBY is for strong laws and certainty of punishment of criminals, backed by better training and pay for our police officers. He is helping upgrade our courts to speed up trials of accused criminals. He is for improv ing our prison system and parole system. Re-elect Hobby G A STRONG LT. GOVERNOR, HONESTLY. Political Advertisement paid for by the Re-elect Gov. Bill Hobby Committee, P.0. Box 567, Austin, Texas 78767 the environmental laws imposea burden of gross annual polk tion abatement cost per SI/ of added value of $14.45 in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, of $10.16 in Monta na, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, and of $9.12 in Ken tucky, Tennessee, Alabama ami Mississippi as against onlyS4J in New England and a national average of $7.88. In the west, Pashigian’s figure is S5.(ll for Minnesota, Iowa, Missouii, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kan sas and $7.05 for Ohio, Indiana Illinois, Michigan and Wis consin. The figures average $7.05lot the mid-Atlantic states, for the South Atlantic states and $8.11 for the Pacific coast states. The Pashigian study argues that loss of jobs and an eroding tax base in northern areas pro duced a demand that Congress step in and adopt regulationsto curb the drift of industry to A 5TKA/V6 OH THE PA WM C0i TO MAKE INDIVIDUAI VARI0U5 THEIR UA/' CONFINE 1 m to \ 1ETTE/G west and south and that the Id rise of the environmental mow- ment in the 1960s providedtht opportunity for national regula tion to accomplish this. INTERNATIONAL CAREER? 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