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Texas 77843-1400 Page 4 The Battalion Wednesday, September 2,: Money speaks in court races THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — Consumer groups, citing a new study they said shows special interests contribut ing millions to Texas Supreme Court candidates, called Tuesday for reform of judicial campaign fi nances. "The overwhelming concern is ... money talks, and the amount of money that is being contributed is obscene," said Tom Smith of the group Public Citizen. Austin consumer lawyer David Bragg, who financed the study with other trial lawyers, said more than 87 percent of the $11 million spent on Supreme Court races in 1988 and 1990 came from special interests. Those included lawyers, doctors and business interests, he said. For 1992 races so far, Bragg said, 79 percent of the $3.26 mil lion in contributions have come from special interests. "The Supreme Court conducts all of its deliberations in secret ... When secret deliberations and large contributions are combined, an appearance of impropriety is created," said Bragg, who was Gov. Ann Richards' citizen advo cate on nursing homes. Smith said a large amount of campaign spending goes unno ticed. When a political action com mittee pays for ads to help a slate of candidates, the individual can didates don't report that money. Self-imposed limits on individ ual contributions are deceiving, Bragg said. He said the practice of "bundling" allows many mem bers of a single large law firm to give money separately to one can didate. Bragg said he doesn't believe candidates should be blamed for what he called a flawed system. "If we had the power to indict, we would indict the system," he said. "You cannot run a successful campaign for the Supreme Court without huge amounts of mon- ey." Smith advocated a ban on pri vate contributions, saying judicial elections should be financed by adding $10 to the cost of filing a lawsuit. Karl Bayer of the Texas Con sumer Association, an. unsuccess ful Supreme Court candidate in 1988, suggested that a special tax on lawyers be considered. The study said that short of public financing, some immediate changes could make the process more open. The report recommended re quiring law firms that "bundle" contributions to disclose the firm's total donation; requiring lawyer- donors to reveal whether they have cases pending with the court; and disclosing the occupa tion and employer of all contribu tors. Texas Supreme Court Chief Jus tice Tom Phillips agreed that change is needed. But he said the study "has an ax to grind" and that his record wasn't presented fairly. The study said Phillips, a Re publican who ran in 1988 and 1990, accepted the most money from political action committees among successful Supreme Court candidates during those cam paigns. It said all those candidates accepted PAC money. The only justice who ran in both elections, after being ap pointed tQ a partial term, PWUips accepted $429,958 in PAC money, the study said. Error in toxicology report Lawyer argues for murder retrial THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LUBBOCK — An attorney for a convicted murder er says his client deserves a new trial because of dis crepancies in a toxicology report, but indicted pathologist Ralph Erdmann has refused to take the blame. "Never have I falsified anything," Erdmann said Monday. "That I'm human and can do errors, yes. But intentionally? Never." Erdmann testified Monday during the first day of a hearing to determine whether Richard Jaxson, con victed in the murder of Lubbock waitress Tammy A. Everett, is entitled to a new trial based on the dis crepancy. The evidence from the courtroom testimony, which ended Tuesday, and depositions will be pre sented by state District Judge Cecil Puryear to an ap peals court. Dan Hurley, an attorney for Jaxson, says his client's right to due process was violated by perjury from Erdmann and the withholding of a second toxi cology report on Ms. Everett. That report, requested by Peace Justice Melvin Powers;, indicated that the victim had smoked mari juana and had a blood-alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit. An earlier report found ho trace of alcohol or drugs. Erdmann said the toxicology reports were per formed by an employee. He acknowledged during cross-examination b) 1 Assistant Criminal District Attorney Mike Wesi, however, that he had assumed responsibility for the reports when he signed {hem. Hurley also charged that Erdmann failed to testify at Jaxson's trial because he knew the toxicology re port had been falsified. Erdmann, however, said he couldn't appear at the trial because of obligationsir the military reserves. Erdmann has been indicted on charges of falsify ing autopsies in Dickens and Hockley counties. He has since been accused by colleagues and police of losing body parts and faking autopsies for prosecu tors. He was subpoenaed Monday for his records in the 1991 autopsy of 1-year-old Christopher Chapa, whose death was ruled as an accidental drowning. Erdmann has repeatedly said he never intention ally did anything wrong. Doctors boost medical costs THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — The number of physician specialties has soared in the past five years, threatening to splinter medical care and boost already spiraling costs, says a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Twenty-five physician specialties and 56 subspecialties now have accredited U.S. training programs, with 35 of the subspecialties recognized in just the past five years, the report said. While internal medicine, plastic surgery and urology have been established for decades, new specialties include such offshoots as aerospace medicine, hand surgery and pediatric urology, said the report in Wednesday's journal. And more are on the way, said the report by Dr. Carlos J.M. Martini, vice president of medical education for the AM A, the nation's largest organization for doctors. In addition, 123 self-appointed medical boards certify physicians in areas ranging from addiction treatment to circus medicine without having passed the muster of the American Board of Medical Specialties or the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, Martini said. A spokesman for specialists called the report "sort of a hysterical response" to the trend. "We can't hold medicine back. We can't use social needs to redirect advancements in medical science," said Dr. J. Lee Dockery, executive vice president of the American Board of Medical Specialties in suburban Evanston. Dr. Marc L. Rivo, director of medicine for the Bureau of Health Professions in the Department of Health and Human Services, said the proliferation of specialists and subspecialists is a serious problem. "Despite a doubling of the physician supply in the last 25 years, from 300,000 to 600,000, we still have large parts of the country that have no doctors," he said from Rockville, Md. "In many parts of the country, including large cities, there are not enough generalist physicians to provide basic access to care," he said. The rapid growth has prompted the curriculum- accrediting council to declare a moratorium until June on new subspecialty education programs, Martini said. The federal government spends $5 billion a year on physician training and considering ways to increase the number of doctors in family practice or general internal medicine or pediatrics, Rivo said. Only about one-third of U.S. physicians are generalists, compared with two-thirds in Britain and more than half in Canada and Australia, Rivo said. U.S. generalists are paid less and work longer and more inconvenient hours than specialists, a fact not lost on medical students, said Dr. Robert H. Waldman, vice president for medical student and resident education at the Association of American Medical Colleges. COMl’UTKll 1M4CK TO SCHOOL THKJEK HAY SALK! MONDAY * TUESDAY * WEDNESDAY CA386SX 25MHz illh'lM'.'Hiligl Regularly $1246 4MB RAM 1.2 MB (5.25 inj floppy drive 1.44 MB (3.5 in) floppy drive 120 MB hard drive SUPER VGA color monitor Trident SVGA 1MB video card MS compatible mouse 101 key keyboard MS DOS 5.0 FCC Class B approved system Two serial ports One game port One parallel port Two year parts and labor warranty □ CA386DX 40MHz Regularly $1386 CA486 Regularly $1736 809 S. 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