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AUSTIN (AP) — In announcing his sup
port of state Rep. Dan Morales for Texas at
torney general Thursday, former San Anto
nio Mayor Henry Cisneros blasted current
attorney general and gubernatorial hopeful
Jim Mattox.
“What is called for in this time is unques
tioned integrity in the management of the
highest law office of our state, and I don’t be
lieve we’ve had it,” Cisneros said.
Cisneros criticized Mattox’s fund-raising
efforts and noted that Mattox was indicted on
a felony charge of commercial bribery in
1983. Mattox was later acquitted.
He also labeled as untrue Mattox’s com
ment that he chased Cisneros out of the 1990
governor’s race.
“Jim Mattox’s characterization is not a cor
rect one,” Cisneros said.
Cisneros was considered a possible guber
natorial candidate, but announced he would
not run because of his son’s health problems.
Mattox responded, saying, “The mayor ob
viously is talking politics and doesn’t under
stand what this office does.
“We’ve made the powers that be angry be
cause we’ve been willing to stand up for the
little guy against the establishment,” Mattox
said. “He (Cisneros) ought not to believe ev
erything he reads in the newspaper.”
“Wha, is called for in this
time is unquestioned integrity in
the management of the highest
law office our state, and I don’t
believe we’ve had it.”
— Henry Cisneros,
former San Antonio mayor
Mattox’s campaign manager, Jim Cunning
ham, said Mattox meant no disrespect in a
speech to the Texas AFL-CIO earlier this
month, when he said, “I got (Lt. Gov.) Bill
Hobby out of the race, and then I got Henry
Cisneros out of the race.”
What Mattox meant, Cunningham said,
“was that he will be in the race no matter who
gets in there.”
Of the bribery charge, Cunningham said,
“Jim Mattox has proven in the public’s eye
that that was nothing but trumped-up
charges.”
Mattox was accused of threatening to use
the power of his office to financially damage a
Houston law firm by delaying or denying ap
proval of bond sales.
Cisneros, who served four terms as mayor
and now is in private business, praised Mo
rales’ legislative work and said his election to
statewide office would strengthen the Demo
cratic Party by developing Hispanic leaders.
“I certainly hope that the Democratic Party
in Texas understands the significance of of
fering a balanced ticket to the people of
Texas that begins to reflect the reality of our
state,” Cisneros said.
Morales of San Antonio faces U.S. Rep.
John Bryant of Dallas and Houston attorney
John Odam in the March 13 Democratic
Party primary.
Cisneros said Morales, a three-term House
member and chairman of the Criminal Juris
prudence Committee, has played a key role in
education, criminal justice and tax issues.
He said Morales’ campaign is his top politi
cal priority during the election season. He is
inclined to key his efforts in South Texas, Cis
neros said.
“This is one of those rare cases where you
make history and serve the needs of the state
in terms of demographics and politics, even
as the most capable person is elected to the
job,” Cisneros said.
Morales welcomed Cisneros, whom he
named co-chair of his campaign, saying, “I
can think of no one in the state I would rather
have pitching for me.”
Meanwhile, Bryant called on Morales and
Odam to follow his lead and release income
tax returns and financial statements.
Morales said he would do that by the end
of the week, but said he would release
statements dating back further than the six
years of documents that Bryant produced.
Officer complains
Pasadena PD rule
punishes marrieds
PASADENA (AP) — A former
police officer says her bosses at
the Pasadena Police Department
looked the other way when she
lived with another officer —never
even complaining when the two
had a child — but her marriage
cost her her job.
Kerry Burch Fry is appealing
her ouster. She contends depart
ment nepotism laws are selecti
vely enforced inasmuch as they
allow single couples to live to
gether without fear of reprisals.
“It’s discriminatory. There
have been several relationships
among officers, and the adminis
tration has taken no action,” Fry
said Wednesday outside a brief
appeal hearing. “They’re con
doning officers fMTng together,
and it’s a shame because I’m los
ing money.”
Fry, 27, was ousted from her
$32,000-a-year patrol job in the
force’s juvenile division on June
13, six days after marrying her
longtime fiance, Lt. Jack Fry, 35.
Under the department’s 1974
“no-spouses” law, if two officers
marry, the spouse with the least
seniority automatically resigns
unless the other does so volun
tarily.
Fry was a six-year veteran
while her husband, head of the
force’s narcotics division, has
been on the job twice as long.
She is asking the city’s Civil
Service Commission to overturn
department nepotism laws for
bidding married officers and rel
atives from working together.
She also is seeking reinstatement
with back pay.
Police Chief Lee Gilbert said he
supports the laws because they
prevent favoritism, discord and
conflicts. He declined to com
ment on Fry’s claims that the laws
contain loopholes encouraging
non-marital relationships.
Fry claims the nepotism laws
are unfair because the adminis
tration winks at related members
of the force.
“There are uncles, brothers-in-
law, cousins,” she said. “I’m chal
lenging the constitutionality of
the law. If an employer wants to
do that, fine, but it’s the arbitrary
way they’re enforcing it.”
Some of the relationships in
clude • civilian police workers.
Commission Chairman Buddy
Harris said the three-man panel
will not address those because it
has no authority over civilians.
During Wednesday’s 20-min-
ute hearing, Fry’s attorney, J.B.
Williamson, argued with city at
torneys over which witnesses
should be allowed to testify.
Lobbyists should provide
better records, Hobby says
AUSTIN (AP) — Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby said Thursday he wants to re
quire lobbyists to submit more in-
depth records, and he has asked the
chairman of the Senate State Affairs
Committee to make recommenda
tions on such legislation.
“The statutes are vague, confus
ing and contradictory. People, in
cluding myself, have a difficult time
(interpreting the law),” Hobby said.
Hobby said he has asked Sen.
John Montford, a Lubbock Demo
crat who heads the State Affairs
panel, to investigate the matter and
report back with recommendations.
“I’d like to see some legislation re
quiring more specific reporting by
lobbyists and what members (of the
Legislature) they are entertaining,”
Hobby said.
Currently, lobbyists are required
to register with the Secretary of State
and submit monthly reports when
the Legislature is in session. They
are required to report how much
they spend on entertainment and
gifts, but not on whom they spend it.
Hobby said he would like Gov. Bill
Clements to put lobby ethics reform
on the agenda of the fall special ses
sion.
Secretary of State George Bay-
oud, whose office handles lobby re
ports and registration, said Clements
wants to keep the focus of the special
session on reforming the worker’s
compensation system. But he added,
“There may be a strong possibility
that he (Clements) would add it to
the call.”
Rossanna Salazar, Clements’ press
secretary, said, “It is under consider
ation, but no decision has been
made.”
In the growing controversy over
lobbyist-supplied trips and enter
tainment for Texas lawmakers, Tra
vis County District Attorney Ronald
Earle met Wednesday with legis
lative leaders over possible revisions
in state ethics laws.
Attending the meeting were
Hobby; Bayoud; Rep. Stan
Schlueter, D-Killeen; Mike Millsap,
top aide to House Speaker Gib Le
wis; and other legislative staff mem
bers.
“I think this (lobbying) situation at
present is out of hand, and I told
them that,” Earle told the Austin
American-Statesman.
Hobby said there was general
agreement among those at the meet
ing that something needed to be
done.
Lobbyists spent more than $1.86
million on entertainment and gifts to
lawmakers during the five-month
regular session.
Truckers drive
friendly but fast
Texans say
COLLEGE STATION (AP) —
Texas truckers are considered
better drivers and more willing to
lend a hand than others on the
road despite being more prone to
speed, a survey conducted at
Texas A&M University says.
According to the report, 81.2
percent of the 500 surveyed by
telephone concurred with the
statement that truck drivers are
more skillful drivers than auto
mobile drivers. Nearly two thirds,
or 65.8 percent, of the respon
dents also indicated that they be
lieve truck drivers are safer driv
ers than automobile drivers.
Some 58.7 percent of the re
spondents agreed that truck driv
ers are more likely to stop and
render aid on the highway than
are automobile drivers, said Rich
ard Hise, a Texas A&M market
ing professor who conducted the
survey for the Texas Motor
Transportation Association in
conjunction with the Texas Rail
road Commission.
“We found that a large major
ity of the respondents — or eight
out of 10 people who participated
— think truck driving is a respect
able profession and that truck
drivers are responsible citizens
who make significant contribu
tions to their community,” Hise
said.
But only 31.4 percent of those
surveyed agreed with the
statement that truck drivers are
more likely to drive at the legal
speed limit than are automobile
drivers.
“The trucking industry should
be pleased to know that Texas
residents have a favorable image
of this important segment of the
state’s economy,” Hise said.
Only 35.6 percent of those sur
veyed said they thought truck
drivers would be more likely to
drive under the influence of
drugs than automobile drivers.
City of Austin officials try to cope
with big loss of workers in past year
AUSTIN (AP) — In the past year, more than 1,100
workers decided that life as a public servant for the City
of Austin was not for them.
Secretaries, managers, public safety employees, elec
tric workers, computer programmers, planners and
others retired or resigned, taking years of experience
and expertise with them.
Those left behind have had to keep serving a grow
ing public with fewer resources to help them do it.
“People have been leaving in droves,” said Maria Ro
cha, president of the American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees.
“The morale is very bad in lower levels as well as
management, mostly because workers are stressed out.
They’re trying to carry their load and much more,” she
told the Austin American-Statesman.
City employees’ costs for health benefits increased 30
percent last year, and a 17 percent increase is slated for
the 1989-90 budget year.
Workers also have seen other benefits, such as end-
of-the-year bonuses for long-time employees and merit
pay increases curtailed or eliminated.
The problems facing the city’s work force have not
been lost on Camille Barnett, who is the first Austin city
manager in four years to propose a wage increase for
employees.
The need to invest in the city’s work force is a theme
throughout Barnett’s $953.7 million budget proposal.
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