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GOP donor signs on for Bush candidacy
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WASHINGTON (AP)
A key GOP fund-raiser
among grass-roots conser
vatives has signed on
with Texas Gov. George
W. Bush as Republican
legislators from three
more states urged him
Monday to seek the pres
idency.
Jack Oliver, who raised
nearly $3 million last year for Missouri
Sen. John Ashcroft, will become Bush’s fi
nance director if the governor gets into the
race, a Bush ally said Monday.
Oliver, 30, already is working for Bush
in Austin.
“He’s a supporter of the governor, and
he’s offered to help, and he’s down here to
help out, contingent on an announcement
about a decision regarding an exploratory
committee,” Bush spokesperson Mindy
Tucker said.
Bush is expected to announce in mid-
March he is forming an exploratory cam
paign committee to test the presidential wa
ters. He already is building a campaign team.
Bush had lunch Monday at the gover
nor’s mansion in Austin with Republican
State legislators from North Carolina,
South Carolina and Connecticut. The gov
ernor did not say whether he will run,
Monday’s visitors all said.
“My gut feeling is that he is going to
run,” said Patrick Ballantine, GOP leader
of the North Carolina Senate.
David Wilkins, speaker of the South
Carolina House, gave Bush a letter signed
by 59 of the state’s 66 Republican House
members urging him to run. Wilkins said
Bush’s message of “compassionate con
servatism” and his electoral success in
Texas make him a candidate who can re
claim the White House for the GOP.
Connecticut House GOP leader Bob
Ward said 90 percent of the Republican
legislators in his state had signed a letter
asking Bush to run.
As director of Ashcroft’s fund-raising
committee, Oliver built an impressive
mailing list of more than 120,000 donors
from the freshman senator’s conservative
base.
Ashcroft’s performance was considered
one of the strongest among those who
have dropped out of White House con
tention. In an interview Monday, the sen
ator said Oliver developed strong ties to
conservatives.
“It’s certainly fair to say Jack is famil
iar with that community, and there are cer
tainly people in that community who have
a high degree of comfort with Jack,”
Ashcroft said.
A native of Cape Girardeau, Mo., Oliv
er was Ashcroft’s finance director in his
1994 Senate race and has worked and cam
paigned for a long line of Missouri Repub
lican politicians.
Texas Senate takes stab at bill
requiring parental piercing approv
AUSTIN (AP) — Parental permission
would be required for Texans under 18 to
pierce body parts ranging from navels to
noses under a bill approved Monday by
the Senate.
The bill also would require body
piercing studios to be licensed by the
Texas Department of Health, which could
charge them a fee and conduct inspec
tions to ensure equipment is sanitary.
Ear-lobe piercing facilities would be
exempt.
“I’m pleased that the Senate took a
stab at putting a fine point on the reg
ulations for body-piercing establish
ments in Texas,” Lt. Gov. Rick Perry
said after the bill won Senate approval,
sending it to the House for considera
tion.
The measure by Sen. Frank Madia, D-
San Antonio, would help ensure!
piercing is done as safely as possible,!
ry said.
“It also protects children and]
by requiring that those under 18year ; |
age have permission from a parentb
being pierced,” he said.
The Health Department last yead
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that included unsanitary condition.']
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cording to a bill analysis. Madia hai*
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