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Sparks fly
in senatorial
TV debate
By JAMES WALKER
Staff Writer
Sparks flew in both directions as
Democrat Lloyd Doggett and Re
publican Phil Gramm exchanged al
legations during last Friday’s tele
vised debate in College Station.
KAMU-TV hosted the confronta
tion that lasted nearly an hour with
the senatorial candidates covering
topics ranging from budget deficits
to prayer in public schools.
Doggett, a state Senator from
Austin, initiated the assault saying
he was “committed to those working
their way up the ladder ...rather
than those who are already at the
top.” He said Texas voters would
choose between a “senator who
works hard on behalf of the David’s
of our society ... or a person who is
teamed up with the Goliath’s of this
world.”
Doggett has compared his cam
paign to the biblical story of David
against Golaith saying he will slay
Gramm with “five smooth stones”.
Gramm responded to charges cit
ing his co-sponsorship of the Reagan
economic program in the House.
“We brought the inflation rate down
from the highest level in American
history to the lowest level in twenty
years,” as well as creating seven mil
lion jobs, Gramm said.
“That’s more jobs in the private
sector of the economy ... in three
and a half years of the Reagan-
Gramm program than all the gov
ernment programs adopted since
1946 put together,” he said.
Gramm also noted his
sponsorship of two defense budgets
that “helped us recruit and maintain
some of the finest young men and
women” in the military.
In response to the question of re
ducing the federal deficit, Doggett
said he had never voted for a bill
causing a deficit, as his opponent
has, and would pursue a pay-as-you-
go policy similiar to what is being
used in the state of Texas.
Gramm replied, “my opponent
never talks about voting for a deficit
because he never had that option be
cause it’s in the Constitution of
Texas that he can’t.”
Doggett said he also wants to cut
tax loopholes and government subsi
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Lloyd Doggett, left, and Phil Gramm, right, debate issues for the senate race as Ron Stone of KPRC in Houston mediates.
dies such as the one for tobacco
farmers. Doggett said, “I don’t think
there is a simple short cut.”
Gramm accused his opponent of
advocating the Mondale tax plan to
which Doggett said, “I don’t agree
with Mr. Mondale’s tax plan and you
know that Phil.”
Gramm said he would not raise
taxes on the working people of
Texas. He said more money could
be saved by increasing competitive
ness in defense bidding, imposing
tight purse strings on the federal
government and implementing fur
ther provisions of the Gramm-Latta
bill.
Doggett lashed out against
Gramm’s support for the other 50
percent of the proposals excluded
from the Gramm-Latta bill. Doggett
said, “the heart of that 50 percent is
minimum social security benefits to
some of the poorest of poor of our
senior citizens.”
He further criticized Gramm’s
support of a federal sales tax on li
quor, and the flat-tax rate, saying it
would eliminate mortgage interest
rate deductions.
Gramm corrected his opponent’s
understanding of the tax proposal
saying “the flat-tax rate bill that I
have co-authored in the House ...
preserves the ability to deduct the in
terest rate on your mortgage.
“This is a case and point in which
your trying to present a picture that
is totally alien to my record,” Gramm
said.
In reference to being the target of
campaign propaganda, Doggett
said, “He is trying to give the impres
sion that one person has family on
their side, yet my family has been my
strongest asset in the course of this
campaign.” His wife and daughter
watched from a few feet away.
Responding to a question about
gay rights, Doggett said, “I’m com
mitted to the whole process of non
discrimination, whether it’s ex
pressed in the Equal Rights Amend-
:tn
ment ... or whether it’s with regard
to a group that I don’t share their
perspective.”
Later, Gramm accused his oppo
nent of “pandering” support from
gay activists. “My opponent went out
and filled out a questionnaire,
pledged to support their special in
terest legislation, ... and then he
went out and denied it,” Gramm
said.
Doggett responded, “He has
made this the only big issue in his
campaign because there are more
Gramm wrongs than gay rights.”
On the school prayer issue, Dog
gett said he was committed to volun
tary prayer in public schools and
anywhere else but indicated he
would not support a constitutional
amendment for it.
In response Gramm said, “The
bottom line is that my opponent
voted against voluntary silent prayer
in public schools.”
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Defense spending overshadowed
discussion on weapons systems and
military strategy at the debate. Ref
erring to a thick set of personal
notes, Doggett charged Gramm of
allowing the purchase of spare parts
at exorbitant prices anti for refusing
to support legislation to add an in
spector general for coordinating
budget audits in the Pentagon.
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After the debate both candidates
answered questions from reporters.
Gramm said he considered him
self the winner because “we got to
the heart of the matter.” He added,
“You heard a lot of harsh rhetoric
but you didn’t hear it from me.”
When asked who won, Doggett
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7:30 in 216T MSC.
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