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Tuesday, March 24
Treasury refuses legislators
check-cashing privileges
AUSTIN (AP) — In the wake of
disclosures that some state law
makers wrote bad checks without
penalties, the Texas Treasury said
Monday it plans to stop providing
check-cashing services for legisla
tors.
Instead, State Treasurer Kay
Bailey Hutchison said arrange
ments have been made with Texas
Commerce Bank-Austin for it to
cash the personal checks of state
lawmakers and statewide elected
officials.
Details of the service are being
determined and will be outlined
in a letter to officeholders in the
next two weeks, officials said.
"For all intents and purposes,
the Treasury will no longer be
providing the service," said Mark
Toohey, a spokesman for Hutchi
son.
However, he added that if a
lawmaker was in town and hadn't
heard about the Treasury's deci
sion, "I'm sure we would cash
their personal check" until the
new service is up and running.
Toohey has said that the Trea
sury's check-cashing perk dates at
least to 1980. Hutchison was
elected in 1990.
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Media industries battle over markets
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The
newspaper industry shouldn't be
reluctant to lobby Congress for
legislation governing where Bell
telephone companies may enter
the electronic information field, a
Texas congressman said Monday.
"The telephone companies are
ubiquitous," U.S. Rep. John
Bryant, D-Dallas, told newspaper
industry leaders. "It is necessary
for you to pipe up and explain
what the bill does."
Bryant spoke at the Texas Daily
Newspaper Association annual
meeting.
Bryant is co-sponsoring a bill
that would prevent the seven re
gional Bell operating companies
from entering the information ser
vices industry in their own mar
kets unless competition for phone
service exists.
The Bell companies would be
permitted to enter the field in
markets outside of their phone
service areas.
"You cannot compete success
fully against someone who
doesn't play by the same rules,"
said Cathleen Black, president of
the American Newspaper Publish
ers Association. "We welcome the
Bells just as soon as they have real
competition for telephone ser
vices."
Black said the phone compa
nies could offer data services,
sports information and classified
ads. About 400 newspapers na
tionwide currently are involved in
the electronic information field,
she said.
The Bell companies, which
were prevented from entering the
field after the breakup of Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph in
1984, claim the ban kept innova
tive services from consumers.
Last year a federal judge ruled
the telephone companies could
enter the electronic information
field. Now, the so-called Cooper
bill in Congress attempts to undo
that decision.
Bryant said the bill ontyi
vents the Bell companies from
tering a small segment of thet
ketplace.
"So don't put up with;!
telephone company executin
the local civic meeting tellinj
eryone around him thatthe,
being prevented from gettii*
volved in providing informi
services to Americans .. .bee
it simply isn't true," thecong
man said.
Black said so far the telepi
companies have spent $21 mi
on a lobbying effort to blocl
Cooper bill.
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Ethics law discloses partnerships
between legislators, lobbyists
AUSTIN (AP) — Disclosures
required by the state's new
ethics law show that several leg
islators and lobbyists are busi
ness partners, and some lawyer-
lawmakers have made thou
sands of dollars practicing be
fore state agencies.
The reports, for business con
ducted in 1991, underscore a de
bate between part-time legisla
tors trying to make a living and
government watchdogs looking
for conflicts of interest.
"You must either be super
rich or you get in the real world
and make a living," Sen. Carl
Parker, D-Port Arthur, told the
Austin American-Statesman.
"We'd be far better off with a
full-time Legislature and pro
hibit any outside employment."
Legislators are paid $7,200 a
year, plus $85 a day when in
Austin for legislative sessions
and, with limits, for legislative
business between sessions.
aAccording to a report by the
American-Statesman, the busi
ness ventures between legisla
tors and lobbyists run the
gamut:
— Rep. Pete Laney, D-Hale
Center, is a House speaker can
didate and was a co-author of
last year's ethics legislation. He
owns a 300-acre farm and vine
yard in West Texas with three
business lobbyists — Galt Gray-
don, Barry Miller and Bradley
Bryan. All said the venture does
not affect their political relation
ship.
— Rep. Tom Craddick, R-
Midland, has invested in land
and several oil and gas ventures
with former legislators who
now are full-time lobbyists: for
mer Sen. Ed Howard and former
Reps. Hilary Doran and Nub
Donaldson. Craddick said the
investments were made when
the three were in the Legisla
ture.
The newspaper also reported
that Austin lobbyist Kraege
Polan got a loan on his house
from Craddick.
"I got better financing with
him than I could through a
bank," said Polan, who also said
that Craddick deals with legisla
tive issues on merit.
Craddick calls the loan sim
ply an investment, which Polan
paid off in January.
— Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-
Houston, who bought a South
Texas radio station with lobbyist
Pat Nugent a decade ago when
Ellis was a congressional aide,
said he could not even remem
ber what city it is located in. He
said it has not affected his ap
proach to Nugent's legislative
goals.
On another front, several
lawyers in the Legislature re
ported receiving hefty fees to
appear before state agencies for
their clients, the newspaper re
ported.
Court to review sacrifice ban
Justices will rule on church rituals in 1993
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Supreme Court agreed Monday to
review communities' power to
ban the sacrificial killing of ani
mals at church rituals, a case that
could yield important new guide
lines on religious freedom.
Although the Florida case in
volves a church practicing an un
derground religion, the court's de
cision — expected sometime in
1993 — could carry significance
for mainline religious denomina
tions as well.
In other matters, the court:
— Said it will decide in a Vir
ginia case whether thousands of
taxpayers may claim deductions
for in-home offices even if they
spend the majority of their time
working elsewhere.
— Refused to revive a lawsuit
in which the publishers of Pent
house alleged that former Attor
ney General Edwin Meese and
others unlawfully intimidated
stores to keep them from selling
the sexually oriented magazine.
— Agreed to use an Illinois
drug case foTlecide whether crimi
nal defendants must be tried sepa
rately if they plead not guilty and,
in effect, point the finger of guilt
at co-defendants.
— Turned down the appeal of a
Florida sheriff ordered to pay
$22,710.14 to a newspaper from
which he pulled his department's
legal advertising after the paper
ran an article criticizing him.
— Let stand a ruling in a Mis
souri case that said prison guards
who harass inmates may violate
the Constitution's ban on cruel
and unusual punishment even if
no physical force is used.
— Left intact a $400,000 award
Bette Midler won against an ad
vertising agency that used a
"sound-alike" singer for a televi
sion commercial five years ago.
In the animal-sacrifice case, the
Miami suburb of Hialeah passed
ordinances in 1987 to restrict the
killing of animals after the Church
of Lukumi Babalu Aye leased an
abandoned car lot and prepared to
open a Santeria church.
Santeria is an ancient African
religion carried to Cuba by slaves
and then to the United States in
the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The sacrifice of animals —
chickens, pigeons, doves, ducks,
goats, sheep and turtles — is an
integral part of the rituals and cer
emonies conducted by practition
ers of Santeria.
U.S. District Judge Eugene
Spellman of Miami, although not
citing his statistical source, esti
mated in 1989 that as many as
60,000 practitioners of Santeria
live in South Florida.
The judge upheld the ordi
nances noting they "are not reli
giously neutral." The ordinances
regulate conduct rather than inter
fere with beliefs, he ruled.
In 1990, the Supreme Court
ruled that states may outlaw the
religious use of the illegal drug
peyote. That decision said peo
ple's religious beliefs do not ex
cuse them from having to comply
with a "neutral and generally ap
plicable" law.
Perot flirts
with runnin
for presideni
Politicians debate
impact of candidat
WASHINGTON (AP) - T<
billionaire Ross Perot's flirtal
with a third-party campaign
president is making political
erans in both parties nervous,
alysts say a well-financedPe
campaign could change the
namics of a close general-elect
contest.
President Bush's re-elect
campaign is suggesting Pert
potential challenge would 1
the Democrats more than
president.
Campaign spokeswomanTa
Clarke said Perot "may behai'
some fun" in considering adi
lenge to his fellow Texan. Buts
said, "it doesn't make anydi
ence to us one way or the oth
whether he gets in.
She predicted Perot wouldti
votes away from Clinton, cit
Perot's support for abortion rig
and gun control. Other Bushai;
were more wary.
"You have to take seriom
anybody who's got $2 billionn
wants to run for president,"&
Bush senior campaign advii
Charles Black.
Democratic party Chairm
Ronald Brown saw Perotdoii
damage to the GOP.
"My judgment is his candidai
will debilitate George Bus\\,v
hurt him very badly and?
therefore help us elect a De
president," Brown said.
Perot said last week thi
would run for president if
porters put his name on the
in all 50 states. He said hew
spend up to $100 millionol
own money if he were tow
such a campaign.
Whether Perot would
more votes from Bush or
Clinton is a hard question in
unpredictable presidentialse
analysts suggest.
"It seems that at first
would hurt the Republicansi]
more than the Democratic sidi
said Bruce Buchanan, a poi
science professor at theUnivers
of Texas. "But if you loc
into the situation, he's
appeal to the same kind ofdis
fected voters that both)«
Brown and Pat Buchanan are.
Still, Buchanan says, F
"might hamper the Republic
slightly more th?n the Democfi
because he attacks the Repur
cans' conservative base."
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