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Page 2 The Battalion Wednesday, April 14,1993
Republican enters
Tom Spink criticizes Clinton's plan,
says health reform threatens freedom
crowded U.S. Senate race
JOHN BA R TRAM/TUe Battalion
Republican senatorial candidate Tom Spink and Underground foodcourt Monday. Bob Krueger
son Sam Spink discuss campaign details in the presently is the interim senator.
By JEFF GOSMANO
The Battalion
Tom Spink, a Republican run
ning for U.S. Senate, said on
Monday he decided to enter the
special election because he op
poses President Clinton's pro
posed national health care plan.
Spink, an independent insur
ance broker, said
although other
candidates are
stressing a broad
range of issues,
his focus will re
main on attacking
Clinton's health
care plan.
"I'm saying
this is the main is
sue to keep our
free society," he
said. "The issue
of socialized med
icine is the very
essence of losing our free soci
ety."
Spink is vying for the Senate
seat vacated by Lloyd Bentsen,
now secretary of treasury for the
Clinton administration.
He said if the government be
gins giving away medical cover
age, Americans may eventually
start to believe that "everybody
deserves free everything."
Not only will health care re
form fail to eliminate the budget
deficit, Spink said it will also de
crease the quality of health care
in the U.S. Patients will have to
wait in longer lines for inferior
health care, he said.
The health care system should
not be blamed for the budget
deficit, Spink said, and he be
lieves he is the only candidate
who understands how the med
ical and insurance companies in
teract.
"I'm the only
friend of medicine
in this campaign,"
he said. "Doctors
are our biggest
ally, they're not
our enemy."
He said litiga
tion should be
blamed for in
creasing costs be
cause it "under
cuts" both the
medical and in
surance indus
tries.
Spink also said he opposes any
new taxes. Taxpayers should not
have to pay any new taxes until
they see a freeze on government
spending and more sacrifice from
elected officials, he said.
"They're saying Americans
should sacrifice while they are
passing themselves pay raises,"
he said.
He said the best way to elimi
nate the deficit is to cut govern
ment spending.
"We need to balance the bud
get and not start any new pro
grams," he said.
Sam Spink, a junior computer
science major at Texas A&M Uni
versity, said he is helping out his
fathers campaign efforts in
Bryan-College Station.
"I'm helping out locally," Sam
Spink said. "I've been handing
out bumper stickers and pam
phlets and trying to help out
whenever I can."
While most candidates use the
electronic media to get their mes
sage to the voters, Spink travels
"city to city in a three-cylinder
Diahatsu" speaking with small
business owners and local lead
ers.
Because 24 candidates have
entered the special election, a
runoff between the top two can
didates may be necessary, Spink
said.
For Spink to get enough votes
to enter the runoff election, he
said he is "counting on a big
split-vote between the big names
in the race."
A&M Regents
support funds
for education
The Texas A&M University
System Board of Regents adopted
a resolution Tuesday favoring
two bills before the Texas Senate
supporting the need for commu
nity education services.
Through the resolution, the
board affirmed its support for
Senate Bill 993, which calls for the
establishment and funding of
community education develop
ment projects, and for Senate Bill
994, which establishes community
education child care services.
According to the resolution,
the bills support the "critical need
for community services, skills de
velopment, school dropout pre
vention programs, continuing ed
ucation and training, special
needs education, health services,
child care services and other so
cial services provided at the
neighborhood level for citizens of
all ages."
Regents Vice Chairman RaulB
Fernandez of San Antonio intro
duced the resolution and said
community education is the key
to facing Texas' challenges.
"Through his resolution, the
board can show its support to
community education entities in
their efforts to obtain funding for
these important programs, he
said.
If passed, the bills would add
to the definition of eligible expen-
ditures from the Foundation
School Fund and create access to
funding for developmental pro
jects in community education.
The bills are sponsored by Sen
Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound.
"The issue of
socialized medicine
is the very essence
of losing our free
society."
- Tom Spink,
Republican U.S.
Senate candidate
TCA Cable viewers to watch broadcast of U.S. Senate candidate forum
By GINA HOWARD
The Battalion
Local cable customers have an opportunity to see
a live forum tonight between U. S. Senate special
election candidates in Decision '93 Forum.
The forum will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. on TCA
Cable channel 17 from Trinity University in San An
tonio.
Randy Rogers, TCA general manager, said the
company is airing the program's a public service for
the community.
"We were offered the program last week, and we
felt like it would be of great interest," Rogers said.
Jeannie Kipp, TCA marketing manager, said spe
cific candidates participating had not been con
firmed. ..j ,,
Representatives from the San Antonio Express
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News, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston
Chronicle and students from Trinity University will
question the candidates in a panel format.
The program will air nationally on C-Span II, and
it is sponsored by C-Span, dhft--£ablq,Satellite Public
Affairs Network and ParagQ¥*,C$ble ig Sdn Antonio.
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