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Candidate predicts victory against White
By Craig Renfro
Staff Writer
Republican gubernatorial
nominee Bill Clements predicted
Monday he will defeat incumbent
Mark White in the November
general election, but said he will
need the largest Republican voter
turnout ever to do so.
A crowd of about 40 support
ers gathered at Easterwood Air
port as Clements made his fifth
campaign stop of the day. Earlier
he visited Austin, San Antonio,
Houston and Dallas.
Clements predicted 1.8 million
Democratic voters will turn out
for the election. To beat White,
Clements said the Republican
turnout will have to be 500,000
greater than ever before.
“I recognize that I’m the un
derdog, running against the in
cumbent,” he said. “It’s up to you
(supporters) to turn our vote
out.”
Clements said his campaign is
based on his record as governor
versus White’s record. He said
White has broken many promises
as governor, including a promise
not to raise utilities or taxes.
Bill Clements
“I could go on and on about
broken promises,” Clements said.
“But the bottom line has to do
with credibility and integrity in
office.”
He said he will have the sup
port of teachers who refuse to
support White. In his four years
in office, Clements said, Texas
teachers received a 50 percent
salary increase.
Clements also said he took the
First step in education reform.
Citing such reforms as core cur
riculum, teacher certification and
a stricter disciplinary system,
Clements said, the teachers know
how he stands.
To help the bleak Texas oil sit
uation, Clements said he has con
ferred with President Reagan
about implementing a historic de
pletion allowance and a drilling
allowance.
However, Clements said that
these reforms must be included
in a tax bill to be initiated.
Clements said the record GOP
primary voter turnout is an indi
cation of the movement to the Re
publican side. The Democrats are
disenchanted with White, and
many of them will switch to the
Republican ticket, Clements said.
He said Tom Loeffler and
Kent Hance have loaned their
support for his re-election bid.
His former opponents in the Re
publican primary will join him in
campaign trips later this week,
Clements said.
“Loeffler and Hance said they
would do what they could to join
forces for a common goal,” Clem
ents said. “We’ll do everything to
do the job that needs to be done
on Mark White in November.”
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AUSTIN (AP) — Between them, Tom Loeffler and
ent Hance raised some $7 million for their Republi-
an gubernatorial campaigns. But Bill Clements had
ivhat it took to win.
The former governor’s comeback bid earned him 58
ercent of the vote and another shot at Democratic
iov. Mark White, who ousted Clements in 1982.
Clements had enough money, $2.1 million. He had
ganization, including a phone bank that contacted
iSOO.OOO households. He had name identification, from
lour years of headlines as the first GOP governor in 100
lears.
He had a high-powered staff, including President
Reagan’s pollster and experienced professionals hand
ling advertising, campaign management and press rela
tions.
j He even had a new image, warmer and less cranky.
Some attributed the change to a post-1982 election hip
(operation that eradicated the constant pain he suffered
for years.
I On the Democratic side, White overcame an antic
ipated protest vote from teachers and angry state em
ployees.
He pulled better than 53 percent of the vote in a six-
Ivay race, escaping a runoff in part because his five op
ponents were underfinanced political newcomers.
Some teachers — unhappy with competency testing
required by White’s school reform bill — did cast pro
test votes, as shown by the ouster of several members of
the Legislature. State workers, who say their raises
weren’t big enough, were unhappy, too.
Also hurting him was the plunge in oil prices and the
pressure that has put on the Texas economy.
In the end, after spending more than $1 million,
White’s strength showed. He pulled in over 565,000
votes, more than the entire GOP turnout.
The Republican primary got most of the attention
because, at the outset, it appeared to be a horse race.
The players were all big-time.
Clements was governor for four years. Hance, a for
mer Democratic congressman from Lubbock, had nar
rowly lost that party’s U.S. Senate nomination in 1984
and promised to bring in lots of conservative Demo
crats. Loeffler, of Hunt, was third-ranking GOP mem
ber of the U.S. House and widely viewed as a rising
party star.
But Loeffler had big problems with name ID. Al
though highly respected in Washington, where he had
worked for years, he was little known outside his con
gressional district.
Clements says
he's 'underdog'
in election race
AUSTIN (AP) — Smiling and
calling himself an underdog, former
Gov. Bill Clements launched his No
vember election campaign Monday
by saying Democratic Gov. Mark
White must win to preserve his na
tional political standing.
Clements said,“This incumbent
has on the line his national political
ambitions. He has a real burden to
carry here, that if he’s going to real
ize his political ambitions, he’s going
to have to win this election.
“He knows full well that those
stars in his eyes will go out like a light
switch if he doesn’t win this election.
It’s going to be a hot summer.”
Both White and Clements, who
was ousted by White in 1982, won
their party primaries Saturday with
out runoffs to set up their Novem
ber rematch.
Mark McKinnon, White’s cam
paign press secretary, referred to
White’s upset of Clements four years
ago and said, “We’re ready for
‘Rocky II.’ ”
Clements, who earned about 58
percent of the GOP vote, said his
campaign was starting immediately
because he believes it to be an uphill
battle.
Clements predicted that the Dem
ocrats will turn out 1.8 million voters
in the fall, meaning a record number
of Texans must vote Republican for
him to regain the office White cap
tured in 1982.
However, he insisted that the low
Democratic primary turnout indi
cates Republicans and Democrats
now face “for any practical purposes
a heads-up situation” for general
election votes.
“It was an all-time record (pri
mary turnout) for us,” he said.
“We’re moving in the right direc
tion.”
Clements also said he expected
campaign help from President Rea
gan and Vice President George
Bush, and possibly former president
Gerald Ford.
A millionaire oilman, Clements
said he had no plans to spend his
personal funds on the race or to
match the nearly $13 million spent
in 1982.
The former governor also said he
was eager to debate White, who re
fused to debate any of his five Dem
ocratic primary rivals.
Hispanics’ runoff success vital to Democrats
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AUSTIN (AP) — The success of
exas Democrats — including gu
bernatorial candidate Mark White —
in November may depend on the
Outcome of two statewide runoffs in
volving Hispanics, the chairman of
Mexican American Democrats said
Monday.
In complete returns, three Mexi-
can-Americans — two Democrats
and one Republican — led races in
Saturday’s primary elections.
Each candidate is seeking to be
come the first Mexican-American
elected to statewide office in Texas.
State District Judge Roy Barrera
Jr., San Antonio, was first in the
! GOP race for attorney general with
@5.99 percent. On June 7, He will
face Ed Walsh, a former Democratic
district attorney in Williamson
(County, in the runoff, who received
34.72 percent of the vote.
; In a Democratic race for the
iTexas Supreme Court, Raul Gonza
lez, an appointee to the court, polled
41.14 percent of the vote. Former
state Rep. Jay Gibson of Odessa was
second with 28.63 percent of the
vote.
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The third Mexican-American to
lead in the first primary was Dallas
lawyer George “Jorge” Martinez in
his race for the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals. Martinez led
Denton lawyer M.P. “Rusty” Duncan
III with 29.08 to 27.46 percent of
the vote.
Ruben Bonilla, chairman of the
Mexican American Democrats —
MAD — said, “The Republicans ob
viously are going to nominate Bar
rera. “And because of Barrera’s ex
traordinary showing, it has become
incumbent for Democrats to jump
on the bandwagons for Gonzalez
and Martinez today with unqualified
endorsements and support.
“It becomes obvious that to win in
November, Democrats must have a
very strong following and mandate
from Mexican Americans . . . and
the high turnout necessary for Gov.
Mark White’s re-election depends
largely on the visibility and electabil-
ity of Mexican-Americans statewide.
“It would be unmitigated disaster
for the governor and Democrats if
Gonzalez and Martinez were re
jected while Roy Barrera is em
braced (by Republicans).”
Bonilla said Gonzalez, the first
Mexican-American to sit on the Su
preme Court — as an appointee of
White’s — “ran a magnificent cam
paign on a shoestring budget.”
But now, he said, “It’s time for the
business community to step forward
and lend support to Gonzalez, Mar-
Democratic Party officials
praise LaRouche defeat
DALLAS (AP) — National Demo
cratic Party officials said Monday
that Texas Democratic leaders did a
“solid job” of educating voters about
Lyndon LaRouche in Saturday’s
Texas primary and predicted other
states will follow suit in defeating La
Rouche candidates.
State Democratic officials said
they “feel good” about their success
at defeating LaRouche candidates,
except for the Democratic Party
chairmanship in San Antonio.
Saturday’s primary elections in
Texas were the first since the Illinois
primary, in which two LaRouche fol
lowers won nominations.
The nine LaRouche Democrats
and one Republican seeking con
tested congressional seats lost, and
the only LaRouche candidate for
statewide office — Noel Cowling of
Dublin — was trounced 4-to-l by
State Agriculture Commissioner Jim
Hightower in the Democratic pri
mary.
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pounding the pavement seven days a
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