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Temperatures rising in governors race
Commercials used by gubernatorial candidates less than friendly
AUSTIN (AP) — Republican
George W. Bush is crying foul
over a radio ad by Democratic
Gov. Ann Richards that says he’s
, been bailed out by “daddy’s
' friends” in business and refers to
him as “that young Bush boy.”
“How dare Ann Richards de
mean my family and my busi
ness partners with her negative
commercial? She should be
ashamed,” Bush, who is manag
ing general partner of the Texas
Rangers baseball team and son
of the former president, said in
a statement Wednesday.
Richards’ campaign
spokesman, Chuck McDonald,
said her ads are responding to
radio commercials by the GOP
gubernatorial candidate in Cen
tral and East Texas. Bush’s ads
link Richards to “Washington
bureaucrats’’ who Bush says
want to strip away Texans’
property rights.
“Obviously, this campaign is
going to respond to any attacks
launched by the Bush campaign
... They started this business,
and they are well aware of it,”
McDonald said.
He said Richards’ ads are
running on the radio stations
that aired Bush’s commercials.
“George Bush wants to apply
a double standard to this race,”
McDonald said. “Mr. Bush be
lieves he can say anything bad
about Ann Richards’ perfor
mance as governor any time he
"How dare Ann Richards demean
my family and my business part
ners with her negative commer
cial? She should be ashamed."
— George W. Bush,
Republican candidate for governor
wants, and for us to respond is
somehow an affront to him.”
In the commercial at issue, a
male voice says, “That young
Bush boy — you know, the for
mer president’s son — he talks
a good game, but has he ever
done anything?”
A second male voice says,
“He makes a big deal about run
ning a baseball team. Fact is, he
owns a little more than 1 per
cent of the Rangers.”
“Every business he’s been in
volved with had to be bailed out
by daddy’s friends. Seems like
he always gets to start at the
top. And now he expects to do
the same thing in state govern
ment,” says a third male voice.
The announcer concludes,
“Most people think we need a
governor who really under
stands what a job is, and they’re
supporting Gov. Ann Richards.”
Bush said none of the busi
nesses he’s been involved with
had to be bailed out.
“I am proud of my dad and
mom and their leadership and
integrity, and I’m proud of my
business career, which by any
objective measure is a success,”
he said.
Bush contended that he has
taken “the high road” in cam
paigning.
“My radio commercial on
property rights outlines the
facts of Ann Richards’ well-doc
umented flip-flop on inviting
the federal government in to
take over the private property
rights of Texans,” he said.
Richards this summer with
drew her support for special fed
eral protection for several Texas
waterways after calling the U.S.
government “ham-handed.”
"I will stick to the issues and
the facts, and it’s personally of
fensive to me and the voters of
Texas to see ... Goverm
Richards launch untrue persot
al attacks on my family andt
business career,” Bush said,
McDonald said the Bin
campaign’s advertising hi
“grossly distorted” Richard
record. “I find their shock
a little amusing,” he said.
Another radio ad
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lady governor’’ has brougl
more jobs to East Texas,
a third jabs Bush over proper
rights, referring to a lawsuit
some landowners over acquis
tion of property for The
park in Arlington complex
The latter spot says, in pa:
"So George W. Bush says he’s
for property rights. Says he
n’t want the government comi
in and taking your land aw
Well, tell it to the private props
ty owners in Arlington, Texas
the ones who had the misfortu:
to got between George W. Bus
and a fast buck.”
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fairly compensated for ths
land, but they have a right
go to court.
She added, “If Ann Richan
believes the people of Arlingt
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(409) 696-1440
DALLAS (AP) — Democrat Richard
Fisher isn’t worried about a new poll show
ing U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison clearly
leading in the race that was deadlocked
four months ago.
“If I’d listened to the
pollsters, I wouldn’t have
run in the first place,” he
said Wednesday.
Fisher says his victory
over former Texas attor
ney general Jim Mattox
in the bruising Democra
tic primary proves he’s a
scrapper.
Following the Democra
tic runoff, Fisher and
Hutchison, a Republican,
were each drawing 44 per
cent of the vote.
But a new Texas Poll, conducted Aug. 18-
27, shows that if the election were today, 49
percent of likely voters would choose Hutchi
son, while 30 percent favor Fisher. Nineteen
percent were undecided and 2 percent would
select another candidate.
The poll’s margin of error is plus or mi
nus 4 percentage points, meaning each
candidate’s support could go up or down by
that much.
Hutchison did not mention the poll results
during her Wednesday address to the Rotary
Hutchison
Club of Dallas, but spoke after the meeting
about why she believes the gap between the
candidates is widening.
“We think the people of Texas have seen
Richard Fisher waffling on major issues and
they’ve seen me standing firm on the very im
portant issues that are in Congress — the
health care plan, the crime bill,” she said.
Fisher said Hutchison has enjoyed the
publicity of incumbency this summer, while
he has quietly undertaken his “(Dairy Queen)
Blizzards, gizzards and doughnuts” tour of
small Texas communities. But as the cam
paign heats up this fall, his name will return
to prominence and “we’ll pull up even with
her and beat her,” he said.
In her speech, Hutchison discussed her
year as a rookie senator, including her opposi
tion to President Clinton’s health care reform
plan and the recently passed crime bill. She
also explained her efforts to help border
states seek millions of dollars in federal reim
bursements for costs involving illegal aliens.
Hutchison won the Senate seat from Bob
Krueger in a special election last year.
Krueger was appointed to the seat by Gov.
Ann Richards to replace Texas Democrat
Lloyd Bentsen, who was named President
Clinton’s treasury secretary.
Hutchison said she supported the Senate
version of the crime bill, but not the revised
$30 billion measure that passed. The bill ap-
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proved Thursday bans numerous assad
style weapons, helps pay for more pofe
builds more prisons and funds socialprc
grams designed to prevent crime.
Fisher said he would have voted 1
bill. He seized upon the Republicans'oppos:
tion to funding a midnight basketball league
a program he said was one of former Pres!
dent Bush’s points of light, as hypocrisy and
“obstruction for obstruction’s sake.”
Hutchison said the Democrats’ nert
tic for passing legislation is to tellis j
senters, “You’re a part of gridlock. Youate
obstructionists.”
The Democratic challenger also saidhewas
pleased to receive a fund-raising letterfrat
former first lady Barbara Bush touting"
namic, young, successful business person.
“We can no longer afford a profession!
politician. We need someone who has met
payroll, hired and fired and paid taxes."
need someone who has worked in his coi
munity, paid his dues so to speak,” thek'
ter states.
“I thought this letter was about me. I«
just delighted to get her endorsement,”]
Fisher, a Dallas millionaire businessman
The letter is on behalf of Bush’s son, R
publican George W. Bush, who is runnit
against Ann Richards in the gubernatori;
campaign.
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