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Officials 9 out-of-town jaunts
cost Texas taxpayers $90,000
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AUSTIN (AP) — Statewide elected officials running
for re-election or higher offices billed taxpayers about
$90,000 for trips outside Texas during the past 2V2
years, at times staying in posh hotels, eating at fine res
taurants or ordering expensive room service.
The spending has drawn concern from some law
makers and public interest groups who say the Legis
lature should restrict out-of-state travel by elected offi
cials, especially when the state is struggling to make
ends meet.
This year, lawmakers had to resort to $1 billion of
bookkeeping gimmicks to balance the state budget,
while Texas continues to rank near the bottom of states
in assistance to poor people.
“It would be reasonable to put some restrictions,” on
out-of-state travel by elected officials, said Sen. Kent
Caperton, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
“I don’t think we ought to make statewide elected of
ficials stay in the Motel 6, but I do think there’s the po
tential for abuse,” Caperton, D-Bryan, told the Austin
American-Statesman.
“It does seem reasonable to have some limitations,”
said Pam Fridrich, executive director of Common
Cause.
But officials who made the trips say they were for the
benefit of the state.
Travel records since January, 1987, obtained under
the Texas Open Records Act, show that Land Commis
sioner Garry Mauro, a Democrat who is seeking re-elec
tion, spent $39,674 on 39 trips, including 26 to Wash
ington, D.C.
Most of his visits to Washington involved meeting
with congressmen and federal officials on issues such as
pollution and beach cleanup.
“My political agenda is to clean up the Gulf of Mexico
and to clean up the air,” Mauro said. “At some point,
what’s good public policy and what’s good for the indi
vidual elected official become one and the same.”
Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Kent Hance,
a Republican candidate for governor, spent $16,322.
Hance’s trips included four to Vienna, Austria, to at
tend meetings of the Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries.
Activists urge 90 world zoo directors
to shun smugglers who sell animals
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Animal rights activists urged dele-
■ gates attending an annual worldwide
zoo conference to shun dealers who
p smuggle animals without regard to
nternadonal regulation.
About 25 people picketed Sun
day’s opening of the annual meeting
of the International Union of Direc-
■ tors of Zoological Gardens in San
■ Antonio.
“They (directors) are aware of the
ongoing problem, and we would like
for them to make an official blacklist
■ of unscrupulous dealers who pro-
■ vide animals to some foreign zoos
Band animal parks,” said John Hol-
Blrah, vice president of Voice for Ani-
■mals.
The demonstration, also sup-
ported by the International Primate op
BSProtection League, was not a protest of
San Antonio Zoo, said conference
delegates will discuss illegal animal
dealing.
“The president of the zoo direc
tors union has already spoken about
it, and it will be brought up again
during our closed sessions,” he said.
Giving an example of unregulated
animal trafficking, Hollran dis
cussed the recent capture of two go
rillas shipped in June to a zoo in
Guadalajara, Mexico.
The animals were captured in a
country that is not a member of the
Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species and does not
enforce wildlife laws, he said.
To capture that pair of gorillas,
others were lost because dealers
usually must kill the mother to get
the young, Hollrah said.
Idea for Corpus gambling liner
attracts only one ship company
being
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held this
mil.Jof the convention
h'|Mweek. Hollrah said.
“We just feel this group needs to
|do something about the problem,”
ihe said.
More than 90 zoo directors from
throughout the world are attending
|the conference, which includes ses-
jsions on animal conservation and
[captive breeding.
Louis DiSabato, director of the
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — The
deadline has passed with only one
company submitting a proposal to
erate a gambling cruise ship out
the Port of Corpus Christi, a port
official said Monday.
An evaluation already has begun
for the proposal submitted by Pride
Cruise Lines Ltd. of Gulfport, Miss.,
said Col. Nolan C. Rhodes, the port’s
engineering director.
Rhodes said the port earlier this
year contacted 22 companies known
to operate day cruises, and heard
back from eight of them. But Pride
Cruise Lines Ltd. was the only one to
submit a proposal by Friday’s 5 p.m.
deadline.
“We said in essence, ‘Hello world.
We’re interested. We want to know if
you are,’ ” Rhodes said Monday.
“We’ll launch an extensive investi
gation, of course, particularly into
the financial capabilities of the com
pany,” Rhodes said.
Other aspects to be examined in
clude the Mississippi company’s
marketing plans, its ability to pro
vide service and its planned schedule
of cruises, Rhodes said.
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MSC JORDAN FELLOWS PROGRAM
FELLOWS:
attend seminars on international topics
visit consulates and museums in Texas
are awarded grants for international travel
in support of independent research,
study, or internship
APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE in room 223-G
of the Browsing Library and are due by
September 27,1989 at 5:00 pm
MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness
Room 223-F Browsing Library in the MSC
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