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Polling Sites
Student voting easy
For students voting for the First time Tuesday, never fear, it’s easy.
Students just need to bring their voter registration cards to a listed polling site
and vote.
A representative from the Brazos County Clerk’s Office says voting takes about
10 minutes, depending how ballots are cast—straight-party or by individual names.
If students lose or forget to bring their registration cards to polling sites, they
should bring their driver’s license. Voting officials can verify registered voters on a
list.
The Brazos County Clerk’s office says to avoid the “voting rush,” students
should vote between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. The rush is before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m.
when people vote as they go to and from work.
Students living on southside vote in the MSC, and students living on northside
vote at the A&M Presbyterian Church. Students living off campus should should
match the precinct number on their registration card with a number in the box on
this page.
All polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Governor
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greeted the proposal with enthusiasm
because taking state money means they
would be obligated to meet state stan
dards.
Williams supports the voucher system
because it would empower parents and
spur schools to improve, says Williams’
spokesman Bill Kenyon.
“They would benefit the poor because
parents would not be forced to send
their children to a poor school that has a
monopoly on the children it educates,”
Kenyon said.
A voucher system, Williams says,
would be implemented one grade a year,
but has not otherwise offered any specif
ics.
Williams has also proposed giving
each high school graduate in Texas two
years free tuition if they maintain a “B”
average, remain drug-free and come
from families earning less than $30,000
a year. He has not proposed funding for
this program.
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that when someone accepts that much
money, they may owe the people that
gave those contributions a lot of favors,”
Zaeske said.
Mike Hachtman, Smith’s campaign
manager, says accusations made by
Smith’s opponents are misleading.
“It takes money to run a campaign,
and I think Smith has proven himself to
be an honest candidate with his record in
the House,” Hachtman said.
Close race
All three candidates admit the District 6
senate race is close. A poll conducted by
Smith found him leading by only 1 per
centage point. Zaeske says this is reason
to vote.
Zaeske says he can win the election
with as little as 34 percent of the vote,
since there will probably be a runoff in
the three-man race.
Ag-Land
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Bill Alexander, D-Ark., in Jonesboro,
Ark., in August 1987.
That and reports of an FBI investiga
tion of Hightower’s 1988-90 campaign
fund-raising suggest wrongdoing is ram
pant in the commissioner’s office, Perry
said.
Hightower denies Perry’s charges and
claims rumors of an FBI investigation
were inspired by Perry’s campaign.
The battle for land commissioner also
has been dominated by accusations.
Gilbreath, who is president of a Hous
ton-based outdoor advertising company
called Sign Ad Inc., has been accused of
sexual harassment by a former em
ployee.
Gilbreath, 61, denies the charges and
claims they were politically motivated.
Mauro claims Gilbreath spent most of
the campaign stumping outside of big
cities, where reporters would “embarrass
him” by asking about the harassment
case.
Gilbreath claims Mauro is personally
indebted to 30 banks, squandered mil
lions of dollars in public school funding
as land commissioner and operated vet
erans programs at a loss.
Mauro, 42, said that’s hogwash.
“If I was guilty of half the things he is
saying, the state auditor would have
found it, or I would have been run out
of town by now,” Mauro said.
Mauro, who received national atten
tion after dispersing oil-eating microbes
on oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico during
the summer, said his polls showed him
comfortably ahead three weeks before
the Nov. 6 election. Both sides agreed 50
percent of the vote was undecided head
ing into the final stretch.
Mauro said if he were elected, he
would push for an oil-spill preparedness
plan that would protect “every square
inch of the Texas Gulf Coast.”
He said he would like to see $100 mil
lion allocated to build new state parks,
stronger clean air initiatives and more
plastics recycling.
Gilbreath said as land commissioner
he would try to beef up school funding
and veterans programs.
Gilbreath said if he loses, he would
blame the media for letting Mauro off
easy.
Voting sites, by precinct
The following are local polling sites and addresses; they are numbered by precinct:
1. Millican Community Center, downtown Millican
2. Wellborn Community Center, FM 2154
3. Volunteer Fire Dept., Smetana Road
4. Kemp School, 1601 Mumford Rd., Bryan
5. New Bethlehem Baptist Church, FM 2776
6. Edge Community Center, Edge
7. Steep Hollow Community Center, FM 1179 at Steep Hollow Rd.
8. South Knoll School, 1220 Boswell St., College Station
9. College Station Community Center, 1300 George Bush Dr.
10. Municipal Court Building, South Texas Ave., College Station
11. Crockett Elementary School, 401 Elm Ave., Bryan
12. Sul Ross Elementary School, 3300 Parkway Terrace, Bryan
13. Henderson Elementary School, Sharon Dr. and Matous St., Bryan
14. Ben Milam Elementary School, 1201 Ridgedale St., Bryan
15. Bryan Civic Auditorium, 800 S. Coulter Dr., Bryan
16. Courthouse Annex Building, 26th St. and Washington St., Bryan
17. Travis Elementary School, 901 E William Joel Bryan Pkwy., Bryan
18. Bryan Central Fire Station, 801 N. Bryan St., Bryan
19. Arena Hall, FM 974, Bryan
20. Memorial Student Center, Texas A&M campus
21. University Towers, 410 S. Texas Ave., College Station
22. Army Reserve Center, Carson St., Bryan
23. Brazos Center-East, 3232 Briarcrest Dr., Bryan
24. College Hills School, 101 Williams St., College Station
25. G.W. Williams Tabernacle, Waco St., Bryan
26. Brazos Center-West, 3232 Briarcrest Dr., Bryan
27. Bright Light Baptist Church, Harvey Rd.
28. Peach Creek Community Center, Peach Creek Rd.
29. St. Marks Baptist Church, Hwy. 60 and Old Jones Rd.
30. Fellowship Hall West Building, FM 974
31. A&M Consolidated High School, FM 2818, College Station
32. College Station Fire Station No. 2,2100 Rio Grande Dr.
33. College Station Lincoln Center, 1000 Eleanor St.
34. College Station Fire Station, 1101 Texas Ave.
35. A&M Presbyterian Church, 301 N Church Ave., College Station
36. First Freewill Baptist Church, 1228 W. Villa Maria Rd., Bryan
37. College Heights Assembly of God Church, 4100 Old College Rd., Bryan
38. Castle Heights Baptist Church, Hwy. 21, Bryan
39. Southwood Athletic Complex, 1600 Rock Prarie Rd., College Station
40. Aldersgate Methodist Church, 6501 E. Bypass, Bryan
Voter's Guide
Election ’90
The Battalion Section B Monday, November 5, 1990
Richards, Williams close in final hours
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
They’ve promised to make Texas less
intrusive, new and great again.
But voters will decide Tuesday which
gubernatorial candidate will have the
opportunity to tackle unconstitutional
public school, mental health and prison
systems, and a host of other issues in
cluding abortion and drug abuse. And
on the eve of the election, the race is so
dose that nobody knows who will be our
next governor.
Libertarian candidate Jeff Daiell, 38,
an electronics firm technical assistant
from Houston, upholds Libertarian
Party ideals of eliminating government
intrusion into the private lives of its citi
zens; state treasurer and Democratic
candidate Ann Richards promises to
give all Texans a fair shake in her “New
Texas”; and Republican candidate and
West Texas millionaire Clayton Williams
has his ideas about how to “make Texas
great again.”
Taxes
Although some legislators have said
the state will be $2 billion to $5 billion
short of funds for 1992 to 1993, Daiell,
Richards and Williams repeatedly have
promised no new taxes.
To bring in revenue and reduce costs,
Daiell advocates privatizing some state
functions, reducing bureaucracy and
ending prosecution of victimless crimes
which he says would end prison over
crowding immediately because a large
percentage of state prisoners are jailed
for those crimes.
The Liberatarian also favors transfer
ring all schools as rapidly as possible to
the non-government sector.
Richards disputes the budget figure
and says a $1.9 billion shortfall is more
realistic. This deficit could be covered by
passing a lottery and reforming the fran
chise tax, Richards says.
The franchise tax is outdated and
should be reformed because no other
tax has been the subject of more law
suits, Richards says.
Because of court cases against the
state, franchise tax refunds worth more
than $800 million have been returned
during the last two years.
Bill Cryer, a spokesman for the Rich
ards campaign, says everyone agrees the
franchise tax should be overhauled, but
so far it has not been a priority issue in
the Legislature because there has been
no leadership interested in reforming
the tax.
The shortfall estimate is not disputed
by Williams and he says spending must
be prioritized to cut bureaucratic waste.
Although Williams has not specified
where cuts would be made to cover the
$2 billion to $3 billion shortfall, his plan
to win the “war on drugs” includes six
proposals to save the state $1.6 billion.
They include:
• A freeze on all hiring of new state
employees, excluding areas of law en
forcement, medical personnel and pub
lic education
• A 7 percent reduction in all opera
tional (non-salary items) budgets for
state agencies, excluding the three areas
mentioned above
• Repealing the prevailing wage laws,
which would decrease the pay of con
tractual employees working on state con
struction projects and result in lower
bids for those projects
• Selling 10 percent of state-owned
vehicles with the same exceptions
• Privatizing the state aircraft pool
and the state auditor’s function
Lottery
All three candidates favor a state lot
tery, but Richards says she does not sup
port tying possible lottery revenues to
specific areas, like education.
Abortion
Daiell says he opposes further restric
tions of abortions but also opposes state-
financed abortions. A priority of his ad
ministration would be to repeal laws and
regulations hindering adoption and fos
ter care because this could reduce the
number of abortions without violating
reproductive choice.
Richards is opposed to any new abor
tion restrictions and says women should
have access to medical care regardless of
age or economic status.
Williams supports laws prohibiting
abortions for gender selection, requiring
parental consent before minors can ob
tain abortions, safety standards for clin
ics and preventing kickbacks for abor
tion referrals.
Crime and drugs
Daiell says offender restitution would
reduce the number of first offenders
learning crime techniques from career
criminals in prison. He also supports de
centralizing law enforcement.
Richards favors “boot camps”, longer
terms for drug dealers, requiring prison
ers to work, go to school, get job training
and participate in substance abuse pro
grams, but has not specified how she
would fund those programs.
Williams’ 25-point plan to fight crime
and drugs includes building enough
prisons to keep violent offenders off the
streets, improved rehabilitation for first
time offenders, stronger law enforce
ment and imposing sentences that hold
criminals responsible for their crimes.
Health care and insurance
Daiell wants to increase competition
among health care providers and re
move regulations that limit the number
of insurance providers to bring costs
down.
Richards supports regulation of the
health insurance industry in Texas and
making the 20,000 different health in
surance policies easier to read and un
derstand. The anti-trust exemption for
the insurance industry must be repealed,
Richards says, to protect consumers
from unfair trade practices and fraud
and consumer-oriented citizens should
be appointed to the State Board of In
surance. These reforms, Richards says,
will lower insurance rates.
Williams says health costs would de
crease if reasonable limits were placed
on punitive and non-economic damages
awarded in liability lawsuits.
Education
Richards’ education proposals include
increasing teacher and parent involve
ment and power at the local level, and
setting up joint ventures between the
public and private sector to provide
scholarships to students who meet basic
attendance and achievement standards.
Specifically, Richards would relieve
teachers of non-teaching duties which
would improve the career ladder process
by tying the bonuses to performance,
not to unpredictable financial factors.
Richards has ridiculed Williams’ sup
port of state-funded education vouchers
that would give parents credit toward
sending their children to any school of
their choice, public or private.
“No one has told us how they’re going
to work this system when the kids show
up with vouchers and all of them decide
to go to the same school,” Richards said.
“And you’ve got all the schools that were
built with taxpayers’ dollars and bond
money. Are you going to dose them up
and say, ‘Well, nobody showed up’?”
Richards says private schools have not
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Editor s note
The Fall ’90 Voter’s Guide is designed to make members of the A&M
community aware of how the candidates stand on key issues and inform vot
ers of their polling sites.
While putting the voter’s guide together, we realized we could not cover
every race as we are limited by the size of our staff and the space in the news
paper. But we did try to include the races we felt were most important to the
most readers.
All the stories were written by members of our staff or the Associated
Press, and no candidate or party was allowed to influence any analysis of the
races.
For fairness, we list all candidates alphabetically in all staff stories and
place pictures in alphabetical order.
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