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The Battalion
Tuesday, November 9,1993
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George W. Bush launches campaign
Gubernatorial candidate challenges Richards' effectiveness
The Associated Press
AUSTIN — Republican George
' off'
W. Bush kicked off his gubernato
rial campaign Monday with
promises to change the status quo
and a slap at Democratic Gov.
Ann Richards.
Bush, 47, eldest son of the for
mer president and managing part
ner of the Texas Rangers baseball
team, said he was running be
cause he's not happy with the di
rection Texas is taking.
"I worry Texas is changing and
not for the better," he said,
adding that he sees property taxes
going up, the quality of Texas
schools going down, crime threat-
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ening all Texans and government
growing rapidly.
Bush, whose brother Jeb is run
ning for governor of Florida, said
Richards may be popular but
she's not effective.
"Our leaders should be judged
by results, not by entertaining
personalities or clever sound
bites," Bush said.
"What are the results?" he
asked. "Since 1990, are our schools
better? Is the (school) funding sys
tem fair, or even understandable?
Are your streets safer? Are you
happy with your property taxes?
Do you feel Texas is getting the
leadership it needs?"
Bush criticized what he said has
been a 47 percent increase in state
government. He said two-year
state spending had risen from $48
billion when Richards entered of
fice to $71 billion for 1994-95.
"That's four times as fast as the
rate of inflation, nine times as fast
as population growth, 11 times
more than the average of the other
49 states, more than twice as fast
as our paychecks grew, and more
than 41/2 times as fast as our fed
eral budget is projected to grow,"
he said.
Bush proposed a study to de
termine the costs of a solid, basic
education and having the state
pay for that. He called for aboli
tion of the regulatory powers of
the Texas Education Agency.
He urged no parole for sex of
fenders and said he favored
making it illegal for anyone un
der age 18 to have a gun without
adult supervision.
Responding, Richards' cam
paign said the governor has a sol
id record of meeting the state's
needs and streamlining govern
ment bureaucracy.
"The growth that has taken
place has been in those areas
where the state was operating un
der federal and court mandates —
prisons, health and human ser
vices, and mental health," said
Chuck McDonald, a spokesman
for Richards.
McDonald said Texas ranks
45th in the number of state em
ployees per capita and state
spending ranks 47th.
"I suspect Mr. Bush knows all
this," McDonald said. "I suspect
he is also aware that many of
these federal mandates that have
cost Texas so much money were
enacted under the Republican ad
ministrations in Washington."
Flight attendants forced
to move up strike date
The Associated Press
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George Walker Bush,eldest son
of the former president, is seeking
the Republican nomination for
governor of Texas.
ARLINGTON — American Airlines' flight attendants' union
Monday pushed up the date they will strike if they cannot come to
new contract terms. The new deadline: Nov. 18, only nine days
away and one week before Thanksgiving.
The 21,000-member Association of Professional Flight Atten
dants had been threatening to strike "on or before" Nov. 22 after
a year of negotiations broke off between the union and the carrier
Oct. 30.
The group already had been considering moving up the walkout.
But union president Denise Hedges said the Federal Aviation Ad
ministration forced their hand by approving American's request to
cut its flight attendant training time from seven weeks to eight days.
"We will not play a waiting game that allows the company time
to train quickie replacements to carry out their threat to permanent
ly replace us when we strike," Hedges said at an Arlington news
conference.
Hedges alleged the shorter training period "jeopardizes the safe
ty of the flying public," and said the union is lobbying the Clinton
administration to change its mind on the eight-day course.
"This incredibly ill-timed and ill-advised decision also under
mines pur negotiations by strengthening the company's strike
breaking plans and compressing the time we have left to reach a
settlement," she said.
Richard Mintz, spokesman for Transportation Secretary Federico
Pena, said Pena is not considering reversing the training decision.
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