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Page 2 • The Battalion • Tuesday, July 9, 1996
Reform party ready
to relax nomination
requirements
Ross Perot remains party's potential
presidential candidate
DALLAS (AP) — Ross Perot’s Re
form Party may relax its ground rules
for putting people on the party’s presi
dential nominating ballot if candidates
fall just short of meeting the require
ments, officials said Monday.
The party initially said would-be
candidates would have to show they
were supported by 10 percent of Re
form Party members
to be considered for
the nomination.
But Russell Ver-
ney, national political
coordinator for the
fledgling third party,
said Monday, “If
someone just misses
by a little bit, I don’t
think we should just
cut them out.”
The party is mail
ing out a survey this
week to determine
PEROT
which candidates have enough sup
porters to be on the nominating ballot.
The only potential candidates
named in the survey packet are former
Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm and Re
form Party founder Ross Perot, but
members can write in anyone.
The raw survey results will be kept
secret, as will the identity of the com
panies that tally the results and audit
the process, Vemey said.
“It has more integrity this way,”
Verney said.
He added that keeping the informa
tion secret means that every would-be
nominee will come to the Reform Party’s
Aug. 11 convention on equal footing.
“We’re not looking to embarrass any
body in this process. We’re not looking to
set up a clear favorite or a dark horse,”
he said at a Dallas news conference.
Vemey said that if auditors report
there are candidates near the 10 per
cent threshold, they may be considered
as nominees. That decision will be
made by “reasonable people,” he said.
The survey being mailed this week is
expected to reach between 950,000 and 1
million of the 1.3 million people who
have signed petitions to get the Reform
Party on state ballots. To be on the nom
inating ballot, candidates will have be
named on 10 percent of the responses.
Keeping the raw survey results a
secret seems to be at odds with the Re
form Party’s idea of reforming govern
ment, said Larry Hugick, director of
political and media polls for Princeton
Survey Research.
“I can’t see that people are going to
blindly trust someone to do this,” he
said. “It’ll be a hard sell.”
The Reform Party so far has been
certified for ballots in 21 states, either
as a party or through independent
candidate petitions.
GOP proposes
minimum wagt
exemptions
TUESI
July 9, 1 9
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Senate atlas
set to vote on raising the minimum wage, Democra;
focused Monday on defeating a Republican push!
exempt millions of newly hired workers and empk
ees of small businesses.
The House-passed bill, scheduled for a Senatevaii
today, would raise the federal minimum wage by!!
cents, in two steps — initially from $4.25 an hourt
$4.75 and then to $5.15 a year later.
It’s paired with a package of tax breaks, mostli
for business.
According to Democrats, an amendment by Sena-
Small Business Committee Chairman Christophs
Bond, R-Mo., would deny a raise to more than 4 m
lion of the 10 million workers earning less thanth
proposed new minimum.
“Harry Truman said that Republicans arefi
the minimum wage — the minimum-possibl
wage,” said Senate Minority Leader Tot
Daschle, D-S.D.
“But there’s a 1996 twist to it. It’s ... the minimut
number of people possible, ... a Swiss-cheese minimi
wage (with)... as many holes as they can get by with.'
While the House bill provides a three-montl
subminimum training wage only for new hires
younger than 20, Bond’s amendment would ei
empt all workers during their first six months ot
a new job as well as employees of businesses ffi
gross revenue of less than $500,000. It also woul
delay by six months the effective date of each step
of the raise.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., planned to offer!
amendment that would shorten the training wage pen
od to 30 days and strike a provision in the House 1
excluding workers who earn tips.
The minimum wage was first establishedb)
Congress in 1938 at 25 cents an hour. It wash
creased periodically, with the last rise taking efferi
in April 1991.
Democrats say inflation has eroded the wages
purchasing power since then to nearly a 40-year low.
Republicans argued that raising it would discour
age employers from hiring low-skill workers wbs
most need jobs — welfare recipients and young pee
pie with little experience.
Victim’s mother takes stand in ‘Uncle Hilty’ trial
(AP) — A tearful Paulette
Everett identified Monday a
photograph of her 12-year-old
son McKay taken the day be
fore he was snatched from their
Conroe home as the trial of the
man accused of killing the boy
got under way.
“That’s my baby,” Mrs.
Everett, her voice choking, told
the jury at the capital murder
trial of Hilton Crawford, a fami
ly friend known affectionately by
McKay as “Uncle Hilty.”
The enlarged snapshot
showed a grinning boy wearing
a green t-shirt, light blue den
im shorts and black athletic
shoes with a backpack slung
over his shoulder.
He was standing outside the
back door of his family’s house,
the same door that the following
night was discovered by his father
to be open, alerting Carl Everett
that something was wrong.
His mother, the first witness
called by prosecutors, said her
son never would have allowed a
stranger into the house and
would not have disarmed the
home burglar alarm unless he
knew whoever was at the door.
“I told him he needed to lock
the door and turn on the alarm,”
Mrs. Everett said, recounting
the last time she saw her only
child alive. She and her husband
were leaving home the evening
of Sept. 12 to attend an Amway
meeting nearby.
Crawford, 57, could face the
death penalty if convicted of
the abduction, beating and fa
tal shooting of the seventh-
grader whose decomposing
body was found several days
later in a swampy area off In
terstate 10 in Louisiana.
When asked by state District
Judge Fred Edwards how he
pleaded to the charge, Craw
ford, dressed in a tan sport coat
and brown slacks, responded:
“Not guilty.”
Montgomery County prosecu
tors say Crawford, a former Jef
ferson County lawman who held
a security job but had filed for
bankruptcy, abducted the youth
and killed him in a foiled kid-
napping-for-ransom scheme.
Crawford has given a confes
sion in which he admitted taking
the boy but maintains he’s inno
cent of the capital murder charge.
“This case is about a child’s
trust and betrayal of that trust,”
assistant district attorney Nancy
Neff said in her opening state
ment to 14 jurors, 10 of them
women. The panel includes two
alternates who will not partici
pate in deliberations.
“This case is about the ulti
mate betrayal,” she said. “The
evidence will show Samuel McK
ay Everett is dead because he
trusted someone he knew.”
Mrs. Everett, who was helped
to the witness stand by a bailiff,
spoke softly and haltingly as she
told of her activities with McKay
the day he turned up missing,
how she picked him up from
school, fixed him dinner and
helped him with school work.
Several people in the courtroom
wiped away tears and at least
one juror tightly gripped a tissue
during the emotional testimony.
The couple became concerned
when McKay did not answer a
telephone call from his father as
their Amway meeting, which last
ed about two hours, concluded.
“It was not normal for McKay
to not answer the phone,” she
said. “I was puzzled.”
Asked what she found when
she returned home, she said,!
“My son was gone.”
The trial, expected to las
about a month, was transferred
out of Montgomery County in
February after defense lawyers
claimed publicity surrounding
the case was so widespread and
inflammatory that Crawford
could not get a fair trial there.
Irene V. Flores — a Houston
woman employed by Crawford
in a security business he owned
years ago — also is charg
with capital murder but will
tried separately.
The 54-year-old mother ol
four has admitted making!
call to demand $500,000 in ran
som from McKay’s father, a
Conroe home builder. Ms. Flo
res claims Crawford duped her
into participating in the abduc
tion scheme.
by Chuck Johnson
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