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HOUSTON (AP) — Bob Dole holds a 4-1
margin over President Bill Clinton in contri
butions from the energy industry, a newspa
per reported Monday.
Both candidates are receiving substantial
contributions from the oil and natural gas in
dustry — more than $686,000 between them
so far. However, most is earmarked for Dole.
Some believe that is because Dole chal
lenges the Clinton record. They contend the
administration has not done enough to lift
regulatory burdens, cut taxes and open feder
al lands to drilling.
“They are anti-growth, they are anti-energy
and they think fossil fuel is a dirty word,” said
William Scherman, a Washington lawyer and
sometime adviser to Dole.
The Houston Chronicle found that Dole re
ceived $75,545 from political action commit
tees and $480,545 for the election cycle
through Sept. 5.
Clinton collected $130,010 from oil and gas
industry executives during the same period,
based on an analysis of Federal Election Com
mission reports by the Center for Responsive
Politics, a Washington watchdog group.
Houston-based Enron Corp. is the top giv
er to both campaigns.
Dole’s top five donations came in the follow
ing amounts and order: Enron, $75,250; Koch
Industries, Wichita, Kan., $39,700; Atlantic
Richfield, Los Angeles, $20,250; Houston-based
Coastal Corp., $15,750; and Panhandle Eastern
Corp. (now known as PanEnergy), $12,750.
Clinton’s top five donations were: Enron,
$11,100; Occidential Petroleum, Los Angeles,
$8,000; Coastal Corp., $7,000; Coulson Oil Co.,
Little Rock, Ark., $6,000; and Global Petrole
um, New Bedford, Mass., $6,000.
Industry experts and campaign officials give
several reasons for the wide gap in contributions.
“The Clinton administration is extremely
biased toward the environmental movement
and that is very hard for people in the energy
business to accept,” said George Alcorn, pres
ident of Alcorn Exploration in Houston.
Also, the administration has spurned in
dustry demands to explore for oil in the Arctic
National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska despite a
showing that oil production there would have
minimal interference.
And, memories still linger about the ill-fated
Clinton plan to tax fuel based on heat content.
Proposed in February' 1993, just after Clin
ton took office, the tax would have covered
oil, natural gas and coal with proceeds
to reduce the federal budget deficit.Oj
going to be taxed more because
deemed a greater environmental hazard.
The proposal was nixed in Congress. 1
replaced with a 4.3-cent-a-galiong;
that Dole tried to have repealed this
when he was Senate majority leader.
Clinton does have some support in|j
and gas industry.
"This administration and President
have done some very positive tilings,
for us in California,” said Mac McFarland,
dependent producer in Santa Fe Springs,
and president of the California
troleum Association.
McFarland cited the sale of the Elk
field, which holds the
promise of operating
more efficiently in private
hands and has a lighter
crude that can be mixed
with California’s heavier
crudes. And he mentioned
lifting of the export ban on
Alaskan crude, which
helped to raise oil prices
on the West Coast.
But McFarland acknowledges hiseitas
ment of Clinton “was controversial withs
organization. Most of our membersareca
vative, and many of them are
generally am I.”
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“The COPS program is help
ing neighborhoods take back
their streets and take back their
lives,” Attorney General Janet
Reno said last fall. "It’s replacing
fear with hope.”
The tough talk about cleaning
up mean streets is at odds, how
ever, with how much of the
money is being allocated.
Just under half of Texas’ $126
million share went to communities
reporting 1994 crime rates below
the national average of 7.14 violent
crimes per 1,000 people.
That, some say, suggests re
sources are not being targeted to
the most needy areas. In Texas, a
quarter of the money went to
communities of 10,000 or less —
most reporting violent crime
rates below the national average.
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But violent crime constitutes
only one facet of law enforce
ment, the director of the Com
munity Oriented Policing Ser
vices program stresses.
“Policing deals with issues
that go well beyond criminal be
havior alone,” Joe Brann said.
Others share his view.
“There’s a lot of other things
that happen that officers need to
be out there for, not necessarily
just crime,” said Dora Ballard of
the Comanche County Sheriff’s
Department in Central Texas.
The department, which re
ported only five violent crimes in
1994, received $51,572 to add one
officer to its five-deputy squad.
The deputies patrol, serve war
rants and respond to domestic
calls and accidents, among other
duties, Ballard says.
Houston, where community
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by Mayor Bob Lanier and Police
Chief Sam Nuchia, is the biggest
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