Thursday, February 20, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3
Brown's bid
for attorney
general
challenged
Associated Press
(AUSTIN — State Republican
Ch airman George Strake Jr. on
[Wednesday challenged Sen. J.E.
"Buster” Brown’s candidacy for
attorney general although
wake’s lawyer said the chairman
Iwould be pleased to have Brown
on the GOP primary ballot.
|“We certainly feel he (Brown)
is a qualified candidate and
would make an excellent candida
te,” Strake’s lawyer, Leonard Da
vis of Tyler, told the Texas Su
preme Court.
■The issue surfaced in the
courts after Strake refused to ac-
■bt Brown’s filing fee, saying he
h' ot eligible because he had
voted as a state senator from Lake
Jackson in 1985 to raise the attor-
|iev general’s salary.
|Brown appealed to the Su-
leme Court, which refused to
Jar his plea. Brown then got an
order from the 1st Court of Ap-
jals in Houston declaring him
■gible, and Strake appealed to
the Supreme Court.
IBrown’s lawyer, Robert Blu-
nthal of Dallas, said Brown has
:n hanging on by his nails, try
ing to get on the ballot and de
saves a place in the primary elec-
|n.
Eight justices listened to oral
Iguments Wednesday.
Blumenthal said the 3 percent
Kftlary increase authorized for the
Homey general was so low that it
did not come under the constitu-
Hnal prohibition against increas-
iped i|g salaries.
ildlijifHAIso, he said, the state appro
priations bill called for a salary
Kill back if a legislator who voted
PP e “ dfoi the increase should be elected
to ihat office.
(He said two former state sen-
Max Sherman of Am
ent II
letoi at,, ; s
anlio and Raul Longoria of Edin
burg— in years past had moved
to new jobs with their salaries
being rolled back, and they were
ie0 p| f never challenged.
State and Local
Ringer, Mcllhaney qnly_ 2_ vying for mayor
Filing for CS council election ends
By CRAIG RENFRO
Staff Writer
If you don’t like the way College
Station is being run, and you think
things would go smoother if you
were the mayor or a council mem
ber, you’ll have to wait until next
year to prove it.
Filing deadlines for council posi
tions ended Wednesday.And Come
election day, April 5, the city will
have a new mayor and at least one
new councilman.
Larry Ringer and councilwoman
Lynn Mcllhaney have filed as candi
dates in the race for the successor to
outgoing mayor Gary Halter.
Halter, a political science profes
sor at A&M who has served three
terms as mayor, said he will not run
for re-election, but pursue other in
terests.
“You begin to lose enthusiasm for
it (the mayor position), and I need to
do other things with my academic
career,” Halter said.
Ringer, a statistics professor at
Texas A&M, served as a College Sta
tion City Council member from
1976-83. He currently serves as a
member of the A&M Faculty Senate.
“When I was a council member, I
hope people felt I was someone they
could talk to and someone who was
willing to listen to other people’s
ideas,” Ringer said earlier.
Ringer said he considered filing in
1984 but did not feel like running
against Halter.
If elected, Ringer said he hopes to
see many community development
programs continued.
Mcllhaney, who has served on the
city council for four years, said she
1 understands how the council works
and, if elected, will tackle issues
pressing the city.
Mcllhaney said she would be able
to put more time into the position
because she does not have a full-time
job.
“The mayor’s position is one of
working with the council to address
problems facing the city,” she said.
“We have a public relations aspect in
that we are responsible for keeping
the citizens informed.”
Also up for election are council
positions Place 2, Place 4 and Place
6.
Incumbent Robert C. Runnels will
run again for his Place 2 position. A
“When I was a council
member, I hope people
felt I was someone they
could talk to and someone
who was willing to listen to
other people’s ideas. ”
— Larry Ringer, who is
running for College Sta
tion mayor.
meteorology professor at A&M, he
has been on the council since 1980.
“I see the council as a chance to
bring about change in the city and
the opportunity to have sound gov
ernment,” he said.
Runnels received his master’s de
gree from A&M in 1962. He worked
for NASA for two years before com
ing back to A&M to get his doctor
ate.
Runnels said the council process is
one that involves the time and pa
tience of members who are con
cerned with the growth of the city.
“We pride ourselves in trying to
involve as many people as possible
and to do as many projects as possi
ble,” he said.
Sara G. Jones also has filed for the
Place 2 council position. Jones, who
works for the law firm of Goode,
Hoelscher, Lipsey and Talbert, is a
newcomer to the council race.
“I wanted to be on it (council) for
a long time,” Jones said. “I have the
experience and the education, and I
felt the time was right for a change.”
Jones received her bachelor’s de
gree from the University of Texas in
1962. She received her law degree
from Baylor University in 1984.
Jones said she has lived in College
Station for most of her life and un
derstands the needs of the city.
“A council member needs to have
the ability to see the overall picture
and decide what’s good for the com
munity and the people who live he
re,” Jones said. “The library devel
opment issue needs to be addressed,
as well as the economic development
of the city.”
Place 4 incumbent Pat Boughton
is the only candidate to file for that
position.
Boughton, who has been on the
council since 1978, has lived in Col
lege Station all of her life.
“I enjoy doing my part in helping
the city,” Boughton said. “You get
involved with the council, and it’s a
way of giving back to the city what it
has given to me.”
Boughton said that during the last
four years the council has concen
trated on single issues rather than
what is good for the overall growth
of the city.
“The way College Station is laid
out around the campus has created a
“The mayor’s position is
one of working with the
council to address prob
lems facing the city. We
have a public relations as
pect in that we are respon
sible for keeping the citi
zens informed. ”
— Lynn Mcllhaney, who
is running for College Sta
tion mayor.
huge traffic problem,” Boughton
said. “The creation of a major trans
portation system should be of great
concern.”
The council will have a new mem
ber in Place 6 since Mcllhaney, who
currently holds the position, is run
ning for mayor. Dick Haddox and
David Brochu have filed for the po
sition.
Haddox, vice chairman of the
board of directors of Anco Insur
ance, said he hopes to lend his 2(J
years experience in customer serv
ice-oriented business to the council.
“The time is right for me to give
my experience to the community,”
Haddox said. “One council member
can’t do it alone, but by working to
gether, we can do what’s good for
the city.”
Haddox said he is concerned with
the city’s water, sewer and sanitation
needs.
“I’m interested in the community,
and these (water and sewer) are
some of the problems that are going
to need answers,” he said.
Haddox said while the quality of
life in College Station is better than
in Houston, the city needs to plan
for the future.
“We need to direct the city’s eco
nomic growth so it doesn’t impair
the integrity of the individual or the
neighborhood,” he said.
Brochu said he decided to file for
a council position after several
friends and colleagues encouraged
him to do so.
Brochu, who has been on the city’s
Planning and Zoning Commission
since 1984, said he wanted to have
more input into decisions that affect
the city.
“I’m concerned about some of the
decisions the council has made,” he
said. “We need to develop the city
along the lines of the city’s compre
hensive plan.”
If elected, Brochu said he has no
immediate plans for the city, but
would like to continue developing
some current ideas.
“I don’t look to change any pro
grams, I would just like to be a part
of it,” Brdchu said. “If anything, I
would like to see more of a team ap
proach between the council and the
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