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Off to the Races A Journal of Free Voices April 18, 1986 One Dollar OFF TO THE RACES ) 11 '7A1 r A . •.,‘. .. ; 4 rft• 4. 4 . _ a 174-ink, 0 W6iei ,,./..:-. A, tar W ,4.10.--41 ,-;f is ii Ilii•' ;it ___/ c, FOE . -•r-7----- " HE PEOPt ,, • EDITORIAL • ,c- _ tp 21 c----. III PR1E144 _.- —*ALA_ m.., The Gloves — ,i,,,,, , p_i% ....• 7 . 1 kb e - -- - = -----7 - - - -- . .n: , ii ,.. , --...... — , --____-:-_- Come Off I I►!!1 ■ PAM 11 1'1• 11111; - - - I .-...,, --__--- -. ___-______ HY IS Mark White smiling? Because he knows the peace pact signed by Republicans Bill Clements, W Kent Hance, and Tom Loeffler is all but dissolved as we approach the last days of the GOP gubernatorial primary TEXAS SERvER race. It had to happen sooner or later. But when Houston The Texas Observer Publishing Co., 1986 pollster Richard Murray issued his findings a month before the primary date showing Loeffler and Hance way behind Vol. 78, No. 8 740t-,, '''..:.: April 18, 1986 Clements, everyone knew it was time for the gloves to come off. Copyright 1986 . by Texas Observer Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Material may not be reproduced without permission. With Clements showing majority support in the Murray PUBLISHER Ronnie Dugger poll and Hance running a close third, you could see home- EDITOR Geoffrey Rips stretch strategies. formulate before your very eyes. Loeffler ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave Denison and Hance have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars CALENDAR EDITOR Chula Sims on advertising to increase their name identification among LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Valerie Fowler Republican voters in order to force a runoff with Clements. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Kathleen Fitzgerald And Hance, in particular, must convince Republican voters WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Vera Titunik that he's not the opportunist Loeffler and Clements say he EDITORIAL INTERNS: Ron Cesar. Beau Barton. Ellen Williams. is. When Murray's poll was broken down to show EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Frances Barton, Austin: Elroy Bode. Kerr- gubernatorial preference among Republicans who recognized ville; Chandler Davidson, Houston; Bob Eckhardt. Washin2ton. D.C.; Sissy Farenthold, Houston; Rupert° Garcia, Austin; John Kenneth Galbraith. Cam- all three candidates, Clements got 36 percent, Loeffler's share bridge, Mass.; Lawrence Goodwyn. Durham. N.C.: George Hendrick. Urbana. increased from 19 to 33 percent, while Hance dropped a point Ill.; Molly Ivins, Dallas; Larry L. King. Washington, D.C.; Maury Maverick, to 18 percent. Jr.. San Antonio; Willie Morris. Oxford, Miss.; Kaye Northcott. Austin; James Presley, Texarkana, Tx.; Susan Reid. Austin; A. R. (Babe) Schwartz. Galveston; Part of the difficulty facing Hance and Loeffler in the Fred Schmidt. Tehachapi, Cal.. Robert Sherrill. Tallahassee. Fla. primary is that to make it into the runoff they cannot afford CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Warren Burnett. Jo Clifton. Craig Clifford. Louis to alienate Republican voters in their efforts to rout Clements Dubose, John Henry Faulk, Ed Garcia, Bill Helmer. James Harrington. Jack Hop- per, Amy Johnson, Michael King, Dana Loy, Rick Piltz, Susan Raleigh. John out of his lair. As long as Clements feels he is, holding a Schwartz, Michael Ventura, Lawrence Walsh. comfortable lead, he can maintain his uncharacteristic largesse CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Alan Pogue, Russell Lee, Scott Van of spirit. While his campaign has not been long on substance, Osdol, Alicia Daniel. it has been short on ill will. As long as Clements's campaign CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Mark Antonuccio. Eric Avery, Tom Ballenger. is seemly, Hance and Loeffler must be careful when slogging Jeff Danziger, Beth Epstein. Dan Hubig, Pat Johnson, Kevin Kreneck, Carlos Lowry, Miles Mathis, Joe McDermott, Ben Sargent, Dan Thibodeau. through the sewer in their efforts to bring out Clements's irascible nature. It would be a bad rap to be tagged as meaner A journal of free voices than Bill Clements. Hance, particularly, would be vulnerable We will serve no group or party but will hew hard to the truth us we find to charges that as a new Republican he is a divisive element it and the right as we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, to human in the party. values above all interests, to the rights of humankind as the foundation (:)f. • democracy; we will take orders from none but our own conscience, and never Television watchers should be prepared for countless 30- will we overlook or misrepresent the truth to serve the interests of the power- . second spots designed to promote Loefflerian pieties about ful or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit. traditional Republican conservatism and rugged individualism Writers are responsible for their own work, but not for anything they have not themselves written, and in publishing them we do not necessarily imply free from government interference. Loeffler hopes to capitalize that we 'agree with them because this is a journal of free voices. on his moneyed,. right-wing Republican backing to get him into a runoff with Clements's old warhorse campaign. Managing Publisher Cliff Olofson Hance. on the other hand, will have to turn up the heat, Subscription Manager Stefan Wanst•om promote himself as the Republican of the future and the best Publishing Consultant Frances Barton Development Consultant Hanno T. Beck chance to beat Mark White. At the same time, he'll have to prove to Republicans that he's one of them while running Editorial and Business Office right at their only post-Reconstruction governor. The Hance 600 West 28th Street, #105, Austin, Texas 78705 (512) 477-0746 method includes running polls to ascertain peripheral issues The Texas Observer (ISSN 0040-4519) is published biweekly except for a three-week inter- that may capture the imaginations of voters and then making val between issues in January and July (25 issues per year) by the Texas Observer Publishing Co., 600 West 28th Street. #105, Austin, Texas 78705. (512) 477-0746. Second class postage these issues central to his campaign, hoping to make them paid at Austin, Texas. central also to the campaigns of his opponents. Such was the Subscription rates, including 5 1/8% sales tax: one year 523, two years S42. three years Hance-Gramm strategy against Lloyd Doggett, whereby gay S59. One year rate for full-time students, S15. Back issues S2 prepaid. A irmail, foreign. group, and bulk rates on request. Microfilm editions available from University Microfilms Intl., 300 teachers, strip shows, and amnesty for undocumented workers N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor. Michigan 48106. superceded discussions of defiCits, unemployment, and foreign Copyright 1986 by Texas Observer Publishing Company . All rights reserved. Material may not be reproduced without permission. policy. According to Toni Whatley's Texas Government Newsletter, POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to: 600 West 28th Street, #105, Austin. Texas 78705. Hance has lately been testing voter interest in opposition to tighter state regulation of private and religious 2 APRIL 18, 1986 schools. On April 7, Hance attacked Austin Mayor Frank Cooksey for the fact that the Austin City Council was considering a proposal to designate Austin a sanctuary for refugees. In a state staggering through a major petroleum economy crisis, a farm crisis, and a social services crisis, symbolic sanctuary gestures and relief for the late Lester Roloff do not seem to be the issues of overriding importance. UT THAT is exactly the Republican strategy. Oh, they'll talk about the economic crisis and the state f budget, and they'll hem and haw about taxes, but the f B Ruo Republicans have no real advantage over Mark White on those issues. Rather, they'll try to catalyze voter support by ff trading on what amounts to little more than prejudice and Je by fear. It's a Kent Hance-Phil Gramm trademark. It's a lesson to learned by the LaRouchites. Before this election is over, no Pho doubt we will be calling for quarantines for AIDS victims Hance and Loeffler (r) face off for primary. all over the state and for sealing off the border with the National Guard. major issue of the campaign, as it should, his Republican opponent is just as likely to suffer as to benefit. There are, And the reason the real, hard economic issues will not be of course, Republican efforts to nurture such things as teacher discussed is the complicity of the Republican candidates in discontent and no pass-no play as campaign issues, but it will the current economic crisis. Bill Clements, for example, helped be difficult to mount an entire campaign based on opposition set the tone for the Reagan years with his patent disregard to efforts to attain educational improvement in the state. Mark for the interests of anyone outside the country club set. He White is vulnerable. There is no hard core of Mark White called the world's biggest oil spill that cost the U.S. lovers out there. He is not a leader of great principle who government $75,000 a day to clean up and ruined miles of inspires voter identification and confidence. But, if he is able Texas beach for months "a big to-do about nothing." He to steer the campaign away from the kinds of fringe issues showed contempt for consumers by refusing to heed citizen Kent Hance relies upon, he stands a good chance against either protest of a Public Utility Commission that allowed the highest an old, blustery rival or a new adversary without a broad rates of profit for utilities in the nation. His imperious attitude base of support. G.R. and apparent disdain for the interests of the common people resulted in ridiculous state water plan boondoggles and provided no expansion of social services to accommodate the growing number of victims of the Reagan recession, helping prepare this part of the nation for the social penury of Reaganomics, the results of which are just beginning to be CONTENTS felt in this state.
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