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Tuesday • February 13, IS!
Gramm deals with poor showing
â–¡ The Texas senator
looks to the New
Hampshire primary
after a defeat in Iowa.
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa
(AP) — Supporters of Phil
Gramm put on a better face af
ter his fifth-place finish in the
Iowa caucuses than the candi
date did himself.
“I think you’ll see quite a
change coming up,” said Craig
Collins of Urbandale. “Maybe he
can use this as a wake-up call.”
Gramm, who bragged about
his superior grass-roots organi
zation in Iowa, limped home
with just 9 percent of the vote
Monday to finish well behind
Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan, Lamar
Alexander and Steve Forbes.
Gramm and his wife, Wendy,
displayed grim-faced smiles and
tried to put on brave faces as
they entered a room of 150 sup
porters whose spirits didn’t ap
pear to be lifted at all by pep
songs blared out by a seven-
piece band.
“I am stunned. I was hoping
he would do better. I was hop
ing he would be third, or at
least fourth,” said Donna
Sullins, of Clive.
Gramm, upset by Buchanan
in the Louisiana caucuses last
week, spoke about two minutes
to supporters — hardly enough
time for them to finish their
sandwiches and beer.
“Nobody had a better grass
roots organization in Iowa than
we did. Nobody worked harder
than you did,” the Texas sena
tor said.
“You did everything you could
do and I am proud of your ef
fort,” he said to applause.
“I want to congratulate Sen.
Dole. I want to congratulate the
other candidates. I leave this
state with a heart full of love,”
Gramm said.
Back in Texas, state GOP
chairman Tom Pauken said
Gramm may be getting closer to
shifting his campaign back to
ward being re-elected to the
Senate.
“At some point, Sen. Gramm
will make that determination,”
Pauken said. “My guess would
be that at some time he’s going
to focus on the senate race.”
Gramm heads into the New
Hampshire primary next Tues
day needing a strong showing.
“I hope he catches on,” said
Larry Pratt of Des Moines. “But
even if he doesn’t. I’ll support
whoever the nominee is. I’ll take
the last place guy in the Republi
can field over that guy in the
White House any day.”
Fifty weeks ago, on a gusty
day in College Station, Texas,
Phil Gramm stood before fam
ily, friends and a boisterous
audience and formally de
clared his candidacy for the
White House.
Since then, the Texas Repub
lican has spent thousands of
hours crisscrossing the country
from Alaska to Florida and
points in between, with fre
quent forays into Iowa and New
Hampshire.
As in any campaign at the top
rung of American politics, the ef
fort is a mind-numbing, physi
cally grueling test of endurance
interspersed with a handful of
defining moments.
His momentum was stalled
during a punishing 24-hour peri
od last week. Gramm had to con-
Battalion File Photo, Tin Mq
Last spring, presidential hopeful Texas Sen. Phil Gramm announced
his candidacy at Texas A&M University, where he once taught.
tend with both a loss in a made-
to-order Louisiana beauty
pageant where he long had
promised victory — and a rash of
criticism in agriculturally in
clined Iowa for missing a key
Senate farm bill vote.
“Texas Democrats hope that
Sen. Gramm continues his
quixotic campaign until he uses
up all his time, energy and mon
ey,” Texas Democratic Party
spokeswoman Anne Marie Kil-
day said last week.
University of Texas political
scientist Walter Dean Burnham
suggests Gramm is feeling little
pressure to abandon the presi
dential trail and begin his Sen
ate campaign — where he faces
only token primary opposition
and an as-yet undetermined De
mocratic rival from a field oftou
hopefuls.
“This is not a major them!
or factor in his campaigt
considerations at the momein'
Burnham said.
“It’s hard for me at then
ment to see how a Democrat ii
going to stop him in the (
ate race) in the fall.”
But Democrats contend
Gramm’s dual candidacies, per
mitted under Texas’ “LBJ Law,
anger voters and hand Demot
rats an opening to suggest tk
he’s ignoring Texas.
They also point to recent poll
that show declines in Grarami
base support in Texas — albe
with the senator retaining
commanding lead over his pota
tial Democratic opponents.
Eight suspects held in gang shooting
Ewe
â–¡ Sunday's act of violence in
Pasadena injured nine people,
including two critically.
PASADENA, Texas (AP) — Police are
trying to sort out what happened at an
apartment complex to prompt a gunfight
between two rival gangs that sent 16 people
to hospitals.
“It’s a pretty complicated situation be
cause of the number of people involved
and the confusion going on at the scene,”
Sgt. Kelly Payne said today. “We’re trying
to find the parties responsible for the
shooting and anybody else who might have
been a conspirator.”
Pasadena police continued to hold
eight suspects in the Sunday shootout,
but said charges likely wouldn’t be filed
until later today.
Of the injured, nine were male and seven
were female. Eight people remained hospi
talized Sunday, including two critically, po
lice and hospital spokesmen said.
The 16 victims were members of the
Pasadena Homies and the Latin Kings,
ranging in age from 14 to 22, Payne said.
All were attending parties at the Bentley
Apartments about 2:55 a.m. when shooting
between the two gangs erupted.
Although different residents at the
complex said they believed the gunfire
lasted anywhere from 5 minutes to 20
minutes, Payne said it lasted about 10
minutes and was still going on when the
first officers arrived.
“There was quite a cross-fire going on in
the courtyard, and they couldn’t immediate
ly rush in because not only did they not
want to get shot, they didn’t want to start
shooting and strike bystanders.”
Investigators say two members of rival
gangs exchanged words in the courtyard be
tween apartments No. 250 and No. 257,
where some 30 people were attending the
two parties.
One member returned to his group and
then a shotgun was fired across the courtyard.
“I was awakened by my son yelling,
apartment resident Ray Salazar told the
Houston Chronicle. “There was so mud
shooting I couldn’t believe it. My wife ran
into the living room and I grabbed her and
pulled her to the floor, but she was shot be
fore I could get her down.”
The shotgun, a revolver and a semiauto
matic pistol were retrieved from the&eiie.
The Latin Kings have about 1(10 mem
bers, he said. The other gang has 50 to 60
members, Payne said.
“They’re not new,” Payne said. “Unfortui
nately, they’ve been around for a while.”
Most of the injured were treated and re
leased from area hospitals, but the six most
seriously injured were transported to Her
mann Hospital in Houston.
The two 19-year-olds in critical condition
suffered single gunshot wounds, said Lee
Farrell, hospital spokesman.
Four others — ages 17, 16, 22 and 20-
were in guarded condition for multiple gun
shot wounds, but their condition was not as
serious, Farrell said.
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