November 2,
fcdnesday • November 2, 1994
POLITICS
The Battalion • Page 3
Sush campaigns at high school
jndidate tells teens not to gripe if they don't vote
FLOWER MOUND (AP) —
icorge W. Bush took his cam-
for governor to a school
auditorium
filled Tuesday
with teen
agers who
cheered the
Republican’s
plea that they
join the politi
cal process.
“If you do
not vote, in my
opinion, you do
not have
grounds to
jipe,” Bush said.
About 750 students at Marcus
ligh School sat through the 30-
Bush
minute assembly. Officials at the
suburban Denton County school
said attendance was optional.
A butcher-paper banner on
stage proclaimed “Welcome Mr.
Bush!” and students stood to
whistle and wave posterboard
signs at his arrival.
Teachers nodded their ap
proval at various points during a
speech that urged teen-agers to
stay off drugs and take responsi
bility for their own behavior.
The speech — sprinkled with
the phrase “when I’m the gover
nor” — was a slight variation of
the one Bush is delivering at ral
lies across Texas before Election
Day next Tuesday.
His Democratic opponent,
Gov. Ann Richards, spent Tues
day campaigning in Central
Texas. Bush was headed to Con
roe and Houston.
Several of the teen-agers in
Flower Mound said they wanted
to hear what Bush had to say
about sex education and the fu
ture job market. But Bush did not
take questions from the audience.
Joel Rice, a 17-year-old senior
who described himself as a De
mocrat, was impressed the can
didate took time to speak to a
young crowd containing so many
ineligible voters.
“A lot of people appreciate the
fact that he’s coming,” he said.
“It makes them feel like a part
of the process.”
Richards ‘cautiously optimistic’
about next Tuesday’s election
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SAN MARCOS (AP) — After imploring fellow
Democrats to get out and vote, Gov. Ann Richards
laid Tuesday that her re-election campaign has
turned the corner.
“I had a feeling about 10 days ago that we be
gan to turn the corner,” Richards said after
ting to a rally on the lawn of the Hays
County Courthouse.
Tm very cautiously optimistic. But I think
»e’ve got a good chance to win it,” she said.
Several recent public opinion polls have shown
’governor locked in a near dead heat with Re
publican challenger George W. Bush.
t in a series of fiery stump speeches the past
week, Richards has challenged Bush’s qualifica-
ns and accused him of distorting her record.
On Tuesday, she predicted that the Nov. 8 elec-
lion would depend on which party can do the best
job of getting its voters to the polls.
Her forces are ready for that fight, she said.
"We have a really very good, very sophisticat
ed get-out-the-vote effort. We have more grass
roots people,” Richards said.
At the rally, the governor said Democrats
Richards
can’t take her race for granted.
“So are you going to turn out to
vote?” she asked cheering sup
porters. “Have you talked to your
momma and your daddy? Have
you talked to your cousins and
aunts and uncles?
“Every single vote counts. I
run into people all the time that
say, ‘Aw, Ann you don’t have a
thing to worry about’ . . . Let me
tell you that the only way we
can lose this race is if you don’t go to vote. If you
are too complacent. If you take it too much
for granted.”
The governor said her outlook began to improve
as soon as she hit the campaign trail full time.
“It’s just a feeling I had getting out with peo
ple,” she said. “A lot of things started to come to
gether. You just started to see it happen.”
Richards' campaign has spent weeks and mil
lions of dollars on a TV ad blitz criticizing Bush’s
business record, claiming that companies with
which he has been associated lost $371 million.
HOUSTON (AP) — Democra
tic Senate candidate Richard
fisher touted his unorthodox
Tuesday while criticizing
Republican Sen. Kay Bailey
Mison for running an “anti-
ptic” campaign.
At the House of Tiny Trea-
iures, Houston’s only licensed
-care center for homeless
Fisher helped served
and mixed vegetables to
pschool children.
The stop was part of Fisher’s
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Fisher feeds Houston homeless children
as part of campaign for U.S. Senate
“We served 150 meals while
my opponent was speaking to the
National Rifle Association,” Fish
er said in an apparent reference
to a campaign stop Mrs. Hutchi
son made Saturday in Dallas.
“It underscores the difference
between us. ... My opponent is
running an antiseptic, Peter-Pan
collar, Astroturf campaign.”
Fisher said he wants to finish
the campaign “in a way that is
meaningful. I’m going to enjoy
my last week.”
While Fisher was serving
childrens’ lunches, Hutchison
was at her Dallas campaign
headquarters. There she told re
porters and supporters that she
is the candidate of the people.
“Last night I was in DeLRio
and Eagle Pass, where the De
mocrat mayors came and the De
mocratic county judges came to
thank me for the work that I
have done for our border com
munities,” Hutchison said.
“I have been in more small
towns and more cities through
out this state through the last
two years than any candidate
running for public office. I am
the grass-roots candidate in this
race. And it’s not something that
I just thought of a week ago.”
At the day-care center, Fish
er emphasized his welfare re
form proposal, which he said
would provide more money for
centers like the House of Tiny
Treasures. Homeless parents
leave there children at the cen
ter while they attend college or
job-training.
Campaigns
getting out of
control in
’94 election
(AP) Things are getting
strange out on the cam
paign trail.
A Hawaiian congressional
candidate has vanished. A
bank robber is running for
the Legislature in Montana.
A dead man is likely to be re
elected in West Virginia.
And around the country,
more than one candidate is
making this promise: “Elect
me. I’ll resign.”
Putting aside the serious
issues in next Tuesday’s elec
tion — whether more Bush
offspring will be elected than
Kennedys; whether Califor
nians will make their state
nanny-free —- 1994 has had
more than its share of politi
cal oddities.
Take Alaska. While voters
there have been enthralled
by the quadrennial debate
over whether to move the
state capital from Juneau to
someplace colder, a real is
sue has taken root in the
race for governor.
Republican Jim Camp
bell, who is partly bald (this
is actually relevant), is at
tacking Democrat Tony
Knowles for, among other
things, having “good hair”
like President Clinton.
Does this mean that
Knowles gets his hair cut on
airport runways by someone
named Christophe? That has
n’t emerged as an issue so far;
this being politics, it’s proba
bly too early to rule it out.
Nor has Knowles retaliated
yet by comparing Campbell to
former President Ford.
There’s time for that, too.
From Alaska to Alabama,
negative campaigning is the
favored tactic this year. But
some candidates are willing
to balance the attacks with
some references to their
own qualifications.
For instance, Joseph
Brennan, a Democratic can
didate for governor iri Maine*
says he has “more experience
with firearms than any other
gubernatorial candidate.”
Specifically, Brennan, an
Army veteran, has attested
to his competence with ma
chine guns and bazookas.
This has prompted some
chuckling in Maine — car
toons of Brennan in full
combat regalia and so forth.
But seriously, with weapons
like that, who needs the
line-item veto?
There is one tactic taking
hold this year that is harder
to categorize as negative or
positive. What do you say
about someone who promises
to quit if elected?
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