Friday, May 2, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
's, endorsements fuel candidate's hopes
Briscoe optimistic about campaign
By Sondra Pickard
Staff Writer
g two favorable polls and sev-
dorsements from educators,
ratic gubernatorial candidate
jrtjw Briscoe III, said Thursday
joking forward to running
Bill Clements in the race for
governor.
final campaign swing before
mary election Saturday, Bris
ked to a group of five at the
; Station Ramada Inn.
alias businessman and 1974
aduate, Briscoe is one of five
ratic candidates running for
or. He is a second cousin to
jr Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe,
le most polls show him in
jlace behind Gov. Mark White
Don Crowder, Briscoe re-
red 10 a University of Dallas poll
wing White in the lead with 37
cent of the vote and himself in
with 17 percent,
i recent Gallup poll commis-
ne 1 by The Dallas Morning /Vews,
scoe came in second with 17 pet
it qf the vote, while White led the
M Iwi'h 50 percent,
j n M recenl gains are largelv due to
I Ijioi sements from several educa-
Rrroups around the state, he
. such as the East Texas Educa-
I rfislommittee. United Texas Edu-
bw I V oil and a Starr County educators
nip
‘Dining my campaign, my first
?nse thre jectwe was to go to the protest vo-
with nudfBriscoe said. “ The educators are
ional.res • )teM ‘ n g ^ ie present administra-
m ^"-jud the w ay they’ve abused
Andrew Briscoe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate
House Bill 72. So I’m opening up
the lines of communication with ed
ucators in order to offer them more.
“Mark White has definitely* of
fended not only the teachers, but the
farmers and ranchers.
“We’ve made substantial gains
particularly with these endorse
ments throughout the state of
Texas. And that’s why I’m saying
there’s definitely going to be a run
off in the Democratic primary.”
Briscoe said Clements would be
the easiest Republican candidate to
run against because, while governor,
Clements displayed lack of diplo
macy and personality.
“I don’t care how much he smi
les,” Briscoe said, “he’s still the same
Bill Clements he was four years ago,
and I can’t believe the citizens would
want another four years.”
Popular among both educators
and farmers, Briscoe said he’s hop
ing for low voter turnout in the pri
maries because the low turnout
would be in the rural areas.
In his education platform, Briscoe
said he is against the Texas Exami
nation of Current Administrators
and Teachers. Instead he suggested
that future results of the test go into
each teacher’s files to be used in the
1987 evaluation process on a local
basis — not a statewide one.
On the subject of no-pass, no
play, Briscoe said he would like to
shorten the penalty period from six
weeks to either two or three weeks,
because six weeks is too long to be
penalized in a 10 or 11 week period.
Briscoe also said the state’s bud
getary problems need to be ad
dressed much more aggressively
than in the past. He proposes a re
duction in the governor’s salary and
a decrease in oil drilling permit fees,
which he said were increased 800
percent under White.
“I’d like to think the state could
make it through the next four years
without a tax increase,” he said. “But
the feeling from the citizens is that
they’d much rather consider a sales
tax as a potential source of income
above any others including a lottery
or parimutuel betting.”
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can kil
iccrcts' — \US TI N (AP) — Secretary of
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eactors. ur( l a y’ s Democratic primary and
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“Voters will not be interested in
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In 1982, with 6.5 million potential
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nor.
A GOP turnout of 265,794 in
1982 led to Bill Clements gaining the
party nomination for a second term,
only to have White win in Novem
ber.
A new poll published Thursday
showed Clements with 62 percent
support from Republicans' likely to
vote Saturday.
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