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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-
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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-
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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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The study concludes that the
environmentalist laws in general
were passed by the votes of Con
gressmen and senators from the
urban, industrialized states, not
those of the western or Sunbelt
states. And that the laws were
specifically designed to reduce
competition between the de
veloped and undeveloped areas
of the country, that is to protect
the urban north from the com
petitive pull of the Sunbelt and
western areas.
The study considers that the
greatest proof of this was the
adoption by Congress of the
non-deterioration policy for the
western and southern areas
where air quality was high. This
policy, the study says, imposed
competitive handicaps on the
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Difficult times demand wise decisions... and
strong decision-makers like Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby.
Texans are facing some difficult times. Now, more
than ever, we need experienced, compassionate
leaders in our state government.
We need a leader like Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby who has
our interests at heart. Here’s how Hobby stands on
the issues concerning Texans:
JOBS.
HOBBY is working to create more and better
jobs for Texans. He is making sure jobless
Texans receive their full unemployment bene
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the Texas Employment Commission. He is
stimulating economic growth and new jobs
through responsible state spending and one of
the lowest tax rates in the nation.
EDUCATION.
CRIME.
HOBBY will not be satisfied until our education system is the best
in the nation. 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
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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
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opportunity for national regula
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