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Attack ads swarm over voters
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) —
To watch the television spots, you’d
think late-term abortions and term
limits are all that California’s central
coast voters care about.
Special interest groups are bom
barding the airwaves with attack
ads to sway voters in a hotly con
tested runoff in the state’s 22nd
Congressional District.
At stake is the seat of late Democ
ratic Rep. Walter Capps, whose death
from a heart attack in October forced
a March 10 special election.
The race has received national
attention not only as the first
House election of the 1998 con
gressional season but as a testing
ground for the debate over term
limits and abortion.
Hoping to pad their 227-203 ma
jority in the House, Republicans
want to retake a seat they held for
decades until Capps won it for the
Democrats just 15 months ago.
And Democrats, not wanting to
lose any ground going into the fall
elections, are hoping to go into the
season one up on the GOR
But it is the special interest groups
that are heating things up as they test
out issues-oriented ad campaigns
that they plan to use to influence
elections across the country.
“We’re looking at other races
right now,” said Connie Mackey, co
director of the conservative Cam
paign for Working Families.
Mackey’s group already has
spent $100,000 in the 22nd District,
which encompasses Santa Barbara
and San Luis Obispo counties.
The candidates are Democrat
Lois Capps, the congressman’s wid
ow, conservative Republican Tom
Bordonaro Jr. and Libertarian
Robert Bakhaus.
Of the district’s 355,867 regis
tered voters, 82 percent are evenly
divided between Democrats and
Republicans. The remaining 12 per
cent are unaffiliated and consid
ered a crucial swing bloc.
“Those groups are exercising
their First Amendment right,
and diere’s nothing this cam
paign or Mrs. Capps’ cam
paign can do about those
outside influences.”
Tom Bordonaro Jr.
Republican
But it is special interest ads and
not their opponents that the can
didates often times appear to be
running against.
Mrs. Capps went on the defen
sive last week, airing ads to rebut
claims by the Campaign for Work
ing Families that she supports late-
term abortions, known as "partial-
birth abortions” by opponents.
Although a strong supporter of
abortion rights, Mrs. Capps does
not support late-term abortions ex
cept in rare cases where a mother’s
life is at risk or the pregnancy is “fa
tally flawed.” She is running ads day
and night defending her position.
The Campaign forWorking Fami
lies commercial urges viewers to vote
for Bordonaro, who is anti-abortion.
The group already has claimed
some credit for Bordonaro’s victory
over moderate Republican Brooks
Firestone in the January primary,
where it spent $100,000 decrying
Firestone’s position on the issue.
Another group, U.S.Term limits,
is airing commercials in support of
Mrs. Capps, although she said she
does not welcome the help.
"I consider this to be a local elec
tion,” Mrs. Capps said last week. “It’s
not like being a governor, it’s not like
being a senator. It’s representing spe
cific people, specific communities
and their needs. To the degree we
don’t stay focused on that and don’t
keep these special interests out, then
we’re destroying the political process,
and we’re endangering democracy.”
While she and Bordonaro agree
that outsiders shouldn’t be manip
ulating their race, they say their
hands are tied.
“Those groups are exercising
their First Amendment right, and
there’s nothing this campaign or
Mrs. Capps’ campaign can do
about those outside influences,”
Bordonaro said.
When the candidates talk with
voters, they hear concerns about
tax reform, health care and balanc
ing the budget — not abortion and
term limits, the candidates say.
Amy Huerta, a 33-year-old De
mocrat and single mother, said she
would rather the candidates focus
on how they will save Social Securi
ty and improve schools.
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