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The Battalion
Page 5
Proposal keeps AG position
from use as steppingstone
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas attorney general could
not seek another elective office for four years after leav
ing the job as the state’s chief lawyer under a measure
filed by a key lawmaker.
But Rep. Stan Schlueter, D-Killeen, said his proposal
was not designed to puncture Attorney General Jim
Mattox’s plan to run for governor in 1990 and would
only apply to his successors.
“This has nothing to do with Jim Mattox,” said
Schlueter.
The proposed constitutional amendment, which
would require two-thirds support in the Legislature to
gain a spot on the November ballot, is needed to pre
vent attorneys general from abusing the office for fu
ture political gain, Schlueter said.
The attorney general “has some extraordinary pow
ers that the rest of the executive (branch members)
don’t have,” he said, such as the ability to render legal
opinions.
“It’s a very powerful tool,” Schlueter said. “It’s just
something that can be abused. It has not been, to my
knowledge, in the past, but we just want to make sure in
the future it will not be.”
The attorney general’s office has been a stepping
stone in recent years for politicians with higher ambi
tions. Mark White, for example, was attorney general in
1982 when he captured the governor’s office. John Hill
was attorney general when he unsuccessfully ran for
governor in 1978.
One of Schlueter’s colleagues — Rep. Dan Morales,
D-San Antonio —is a likely candidate for attorney gen
eral in 1990. Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, a Dem
ocrat, also has indicated he will run for the post next
year. Houston attorney John Odam has announced his
candidacy for the Democratic primary.
Republican Roy Barrera Jr., who lost to Mattox in
1986, has been mentioned as a possible GOP candidate
for attorney general next year. Railroad Commissioner
Kent Hance, also a Republican, also is eyeing a possible
run at the office.
Rep. James Hury, chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, helped Schlueter research the bill.
He said the measure is “attempting to make sure there
is no conflict of interest between the attorney general as
a representative of the state and an attorney general
who is running for governor or any other elective of
fice.”
Hury, D-Galveston, said speaking hypothetically that
a situation could arise where the attorney general is de
fending the state in a lawsuit brought by potential polit
ical contributors in a future campaign.
“Not only are you taking money, but you also literally
set up the appearance that you don’t prosecute this case
to the fullest,” Hury said.
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Lubbock residents give Bush
stamp of grass-roots approval
LUBBOCK (AP) — Residents of
this windswept city on the plains,
which President Bush offered as an
Everytown, U.S.A., largely agreed
with his assertion Tuesday that ev
erything’s OK in Lubbock.
But this town has always been a
friend to Bush, who won tne county
overwhelmingly in November.
It’s also tne home of one of
Bush’s dearest friends, independent
oil investor Robert W. Blake, who
reported to Bush in a phone call re
cently that Lubbockites were behind
him.
So are they?
“I really haven’t been paying that
much attention,” Shirley Hubbard,
a convenience store clerk, said.
But others are quick to praise
Bush and just as quick to criticize
Congress, particularly its handling
of the investigation of defense sec
retary-designate John Tower.
“They’re (Congress) giving him a
hard time about Tower, but I say
stick with it,” retiree William Berns
said as he left the dowptown post of-
| fice. “He knows what he’s doing.”
• While the majority of people
questioned about Bush by a reporter
outside the post office approved of
| his leadership so far, most wouldn’t
give their names.
“He’s a Texan and he under
stands us,” one man said.
City resident Matt Malouf, in a
letter to the Lubbock Avalanche-
Journal last week, defended Bush
and blasted the Senate for its hand
ling of Tower’s confirmation.
“I would rather be ruled by the
first 100 names in the Lubbock
phone book than these clowns who
now reign in the Senate,” Malouf
said.
Lubbock took over some of the
“anytown” celebrity previously held
by Peoria, Ill., when reporters asked
Bush on Tuesday to respond to crit
icism that his administration was
adrift.
“I
I would rather be ruled
by the first 100 names in
the Lubbock phone book
than these clowns who
now reign in the Senate”
— Matt Malouf,
Lubbock resident
“I talked to a fellow from Lub
bock, Texas, the other day which
was the best phone call I’ve made,”
Bush said. “And he said, ‘All the
people in Lubbock think things are
going just great.’ ”
In choosing Lubbock as his exam
ple of middle America, Bush picked
an easy sell.
This city in Bush’s adopted home
state has a population of 186,400
and more than 150 churches, many
of them large and conservative.
Residents of Lubbock County
gave the GOP ticket 69 percent of
the vote in November.
Here, the agriculture-based econ
omy rises or falls on the strength of
the annual cotton crop.
Two consecutive strong harvests
gave this city the lowest unemploy
ment rate in the state of Texas at 5.2
percent.
The city’s latest claim to fame —
before Bush’s comments, of course
— is its burgeoning wine industry. A
growing number of vineyards have
spread out over plains formerly oc
cupied by tumbleweeds and cotton,
and three wineries are producing
award-winning wine.
But Mayor B.C. “Peck” McMinn
maintains his town is as typical as
any other.
“The people of the Lubbock area
is pretty representative of how the
run-of-the-mill people feel across
the country,” he said.
“Not the political hype of any
thing, but the rock-solid thinkers
are pretty representative of how the
situation is going,” he said.
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