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THE POWER IS ON
Page 6 The Battalion Tuesday, September 4,1995
Williams holds
lead in most polls
AUSTIN (AP) — The traditional
start of the political season began La
bor Day with candidates in the fea
tured governor’s race crisscrossing
the state after a summer of negative
campaigning.
Republican gubernatorial nomi
nee Clayton Williams holds roughly
a 10-point lead in most polls over
Democrat Ann Richards in the Nov.
6 general election.
But Richards, the state treasurer,
says she is buoyed by the fact that
there has been little movement in
the polls despite a television adver
tising blitz by the Midland rancher
and oilman.
“My feeling was that il we could
hold our own against all of his
wealth and his millions into tele
vision through Labor Day, then
we’re going to be competitive,” Rich
ards said at a dove hunt Saturday.
Meanwhile, Williams displayed
the confidence of a front-runner
drawing from an almost bottomless
pit of campaign money as he
stumped this weekend in west Texas
with other Republican candidates.
“I’m not going to declare victory,
but you know the part of the leader
is to define your objectives and de
fine your goals,” Williams said. “And
my goal is for these men and women
to win in a landslide.”
On Monday, Williams rode a
horse in the Jaycee Jubilee Parade in
Garland and then went on a cam
paign trip to South Padre Island.
Richards started the day at a labor
group breakfast in Houston and
then attended state Sen. Carl Par
ker’s annual Labor Day picnic in
Beaumont before jumping to west
Texas.
Last spring, Williams was dam
aged by a series of gaffes while Riel,,
ai ds has yet to form a coherent mes
sage for voters, according to man,
political analysts.
Williams compared being raped
to bad weather, saying “if it’ s im V] .
table, just relax and enjoy it,” and
admitted to being “serviced" b,
prostitutes as a young man.
The Williams campaign has tried
to paint Richards as a liberal, linkim
her to gays and lesbians and Holl,
wood actress Jane Fonda. The Ric(
ards campaign responded with tele
vision ads questioning Williams
business ethics.
Despite a state budget crisis ontlii
horizon when the Legislature meet
in January — estimates run from;
$3 billion to $5 billion budget short
fall — both Williams and Richard,
have said new taxes are not needed,
Williams took the tax question;
step further, saying that if elected
governor, he would veto any tax in
crease.
At the top of the ballot, state Sen
Hugh Parmer, D-Fort Worth, face
an uphill struggle against U.S. Sen
Phil Gramm, a Republican.
Although, the governor’s race hat
grabbed center stage, the outcomt
of other statewide races will meat
new people in powerful positionsol
government.
State Comptroller Bob Bullock,;
Democrat, faces Republican Rol
Mosbacher Jr. for lieutenant govet
nor. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby is not seek
ing re-election.
Democrat Dan Morales, a staif
representative from San Antonio
faces Republican J.E. “Buster
Brown, a state senator from Lali
Jackson, for state attorney general.
Your money Is our money
Company retrieves
bonds, charges fee
DALLAS (AP) — A company here
has earned thousands of dollars
since April by finding forgotten
money posted as bonds in now-
closed criminal cases and retrieving
it for a fee.
Some people don’t like giving a 50
percent kickback for money that’s al
ready theirs.
The county is trying to curtail
such financial opportunities, how
ever legal, at the county jail.
Renetta Wilson of Dallas said she
received a postcard from the com-
any, called UCM. It offered to help
er recover money it said was hers.
When she contacted UCM, employ
ees urged her to sign a contract with
out disclosing where the potential
windfall might be coming from, she
said.
After several calls, UCM officials
told her the money was a $200 cash
bond she had posted to get a relative
out of jail on a March 1988 drunken-
driving charge that later was dis
missed, she said.
I he catch: UCM wanted half of
the money as a finder’s fee, she said.
Unlike many UCM clients, Wilson
refused to pay and reclaimed the
bond herself.
“I had no idea I could get that
money back,” Wilson told the Dallas
Morning News. “A lot of people who
post bonds can’t afford to give up a
chunk of their money as a finder’s
fee.”
The company continues to make
money while the debate swells ovt
its operations, the newspaper said.
“I would estimate we’ve claimt
about $ 100,000 for about 500 clien
since April,” when the company In
gan operating, said founder Richai
Eason, 48, of Hurst. He said hem
ploys 10 workers in the Dallas office
Eason said his commission vane
averaging about $82, or 41 percen
on a typical $200 misdemeaw
county court-at-law bond. The cob
“A lot of people who
post bonds can’t
afford to give up a
chunk of their money
as a finder’s fee.”
— Renetta Wilson
pany primarily works in Dalla
County and has limited operation
elsewhere in Texas, he said.
“I discovered through my re
search that there is a large body o
unclaimed money in public funds,
he said.
Eason said, and county official
confirmed, that the information oi
unclaimed bonds, while public, isn
available in one place. Finding thi
data requires research in varioc
public files and computer record
kept by the sheriff, the county clerl
and district clerk.
Fuel prices may hinder
contract negotiations
DALLAS (AP) — Negotiators for
American Airlines and the Allied Pi
lots Association will talk again
Wednesday about a contract, nearly
a year on the bargaining table, which
is now in question because of fuel
prices.
T he Persian Gulf crisis has
pushed up already-rising fuel costs,
creating one more pressure on air
line managements to bargain tough
in hopes of controlling costs.
But the pilots, who agreed in 1983
to concessions that helped pay for
American’s successful seven-year ex
pansion, say it s catch-up time and
they point at Delta Air Lines.
Mediators for Delta and the pilots
union reached an agreement one
day before Saddam Hussein invaded
Kuwait last month. The APA has
said Delta has consistently led the in
dustry in pilots pay while maintain
ing a strong financial performance.
“We do not believe that substan
dard pilot compensation is the key to
corporate success,” the APA’s new
bargaining committee argued in its
opening remarks to American early
last month in Boston.
American contends that it needs a
favorable labor cost structure to con
tinue its rapid growth. Management
«oT2^. lring ,? ircraft and routes f or a
#21 billion, five-year growth plan.
In 1990, the Fort Worth-based
earner reported a net loss of $19.3
million in the first quarter, its first
quarterly loss since 1987. In the set
ond quarter, earnings were off 27
percent from a year earlier, a»
American recently advised analys 1
to cut their earnings estimates fo
the rest of the fiscal year.
Fuel costs, which made up abo«
15 percent of 1989 operating es
penses, are up 23 percent over 198-
1 he national economy is slow®
down and airlines are among tN
first industries hurt by recession.
“In retrospect, they (American
8,600 pilots) would have been bettt
off coming to an agreement priori'
the Kuwait invasion,” analyst Mat'
E. Daugherty of Dean Witter Rf'
nolds Inc. said.
“Now, higher fuel prices and N
creased risk of recession have rt
duced American’s as well as the ®
dustry’s profit opportunist
significantly for the next six to 1
months,” Daugherty said. “A lot®
airlines are studying whether the
should cut back on growth in capa (
American’s pilots say they cantal
ford to link their bargaining to te
cent financial events. They say th
American had seven st rong yearsh
fore the current downturn. Exe (
utives saw their compensation r 1!
sharply, as revenues doubled a®
operating income nearly tripled.
“We’re going in with the hope a"
intention of continuing” negot 1 '
tions, Scott Petersen, APA direct®
said.
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