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I Clinton ny Carter el Dukakis ob Bell >r Mondale Kennedy Clear ,TX 77805 Tuesday • November 8, 1994 Voter’s Guide The Battalion • Page 5 Platforms for major state, U.S. Senate races Governor Ann Richards (D) • Supports keeping in state law on 22-1 class size cap • Supports keeping in state law the duty-free lunch • Supports pay raise for teachers • Supports keeping 45 minute planning • Supports keeping state sick-leave days • Opposes any reduction in Teacher Retirement System rate (increased benefit levels during her term) • Supports teen curfew • Supports making in itiates go to work to pay back damages to victims and their families • Supported NAFTA Opposes the closing of Kel ly Air Force Base • Supports giving local con trol of schools to parents and teachers through the proposed Charter Schools Program • Supports zero tolerance for drugs and weapons in schools • Supports legislation to remove violent or disre spectful students to alter native programs • Supported doubling prison time for violent crimes, building new cells, and cut ting the number of parolees • Supports holding parents accountable when kids re peatedly skip school • Supports tough punish ment for kids who commit adult crimes Pierre Blondeau (L) • Supports health vouchers - citizens choosing plans that fit their individual situations • Supports financing health care by flat national con sumer sales tax • Opposes employer man dates • Supports spending at cur rent levels with no new pro grams until the hidden tax system is replaced with a visible taxation • Opposes hidden taxes • Supports abolishing in come tax, social security tax, and other taxes that make businesses waste money to cut jobs • Supports flat national con sumer sales tax with no in crease in average tax rate more children on welfare • Hold fathers responsible; make them pay child pay ments • Opposes taxpayer funding of abortions • Supports term limits U.S. Senate I M HU "H* ^SlI * v ; dies” for health care, not employer mandates George W. Bush (R) • Tougher penalties for vio lent juveniles • Make it illegal for kids to have guns • Lower the age at which vi olent youths can be tried as adults (14 years) • No parole for murderers, rapists, child molester; end early release • Speed up death penalty appeals • Use tents, temporary bar racks to house criminals More funding for education • Strengthen local control of schools • Abolish regulatory au thority of the Texas Educa tion Agency • Limit how long people stay on welfare • Require welfare recipients to work or go to school Cap benefits for having Richard Fisher (D) • Supports ending politicians’ financial irresponsibility • Supports more programs for young Texans • Supports being tough on crime • Supports reforming Con gress • Supports balancing the budget • Supports making health care affordable • Supports insurance re form for health care • Supports universal cover age through “prudent subsi Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) • Supports term limits • Supports balanced bud get amendment • Supports line item veto for president • Supports parental notifi cation and consent for abor tions by minors • Opposes a nationally funded national health care system • Opposes allowing open ho mosexuals to serve in the armed forces • Opposes govemment/tax- payer funded abortions • Favors an increased tax deduction for children under the age of 18 hmutemnL Governor H.J. “Tex” Lezar (R) • Opposes state income tax; supports voter approval of any new tax increase • Supports abolishing pa role and early release for prisoners • Eliminate “Robin Hood” funding plan • Supports “Home Rule” school districts • Supports term limits • Opposes abolishing the current law prohibiting ho mosexual conduct • Opposes taxpayer funding of abortion Bob Bullock (D) • Supports pro-choice for abortion • Supports charter schools - parents, teachers, and busi nesses can re-create schools under their own rules with out state interference v • Supports writing a two- year state budget that does not require new taxes • Supports substance abuse treatment for convicts after they are released from prison • Supports prison and cell construction • Supports new laws to change the parole system and keep violent killers be hind bars • Supports state bond assis tance for school construction • Supported the Senate’s provision for immunization of all Texas children Source - Candidates Campaign Literature AGGIE DEMOCRATS Today is the Day! VOTE!! For information about Aggie Democrats call Eric at 764-9120 BE INFORMED! Take the time to know the candidates and the issues. L. Richard Fisher United States Senate Gov. Ann Richards Governor John Bryant - U.S. House Bob Bullock - Lt. Governor Dan Morales - Attorney General John Sharp ‘72 - Comptroller Martha Whitehead - State Treasurer Garry Mauro ‘70 - Land Commissioner Marvin Gregory - Agriculture Commissioner Jim Turner - State Senator Dan Kubiak - State House Rail Road Commission Jim Nugent Mary Scott Nabers Justice, Supreme Court Raul Gonzalez, Pl.l Alice Oliver Parrot, PI.2 Jimmy Carroll, P1.3 Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Mike McCormick Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Charles Campbell, Pl.l Betty Marrshall, P1.2 Member, State Board of Education Patsy Johnson Justice, 1st Court of Appeals Helen Cassidy, Pl.l Michol Mary O’Connor, P1.3 Justice, 14 th Court of Appeals Bob Moore ‘56, Pl.l Ross Sears, P1.2 George Ellis, P1.3 Joe Draughn, P1.4 Ed Cogburn, P1.5 Patrice Barron, PI.6 h; A. JM Jim Locke 4 75 County Court Judge Bob Bell ‘65 County Judge Tommy Munoz District Clerk Linda Bayer Carey Cauley, Jr. Doug Richards County Treasurer County Commissioner, Pct.4 County Commissioner, Pet.2 For voting information please call Brazos County Democratic Headquarters at 779-3158 AGGIES FOR ANN RICHARDS Pol. Ad. pd. for by M. Childress, 3200 Pinfeather, Bryan, TX 77801