Montana Kaimin, May 12, 1976 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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Moses has journals of Judge’s campaign By JONATHAN KRIM $44,000 in contributions to Judge's journals without consulting Sidney Montana Kaimin Editor primary campaign were subtracted Armstrong, who was the club s secretary. Journals listing expenditures of and rather than added to the contribution He said he saw no reason to consult contributions to Gov. Thomas Judge s- total for the general election. A similar with Armstrong. "I'm not being paid 1972 gubernatorial campaign are in error was made in reporting expen ditures. the analysis stated. to do that, he added. the possession of Billings attorney Armstrong said yesterday that she Moses said that his analysis was Charles (Timer) Moses. would not authorize Moses to release complete, and that there is.no need to The Journals could shed some light the journals. "M y understanding is on the sources of about $94,000 in release the journals. "It just keeps going on and on and that those records are not in terribly campaign contributions and about good condition," she said, and added $81,000 in campaign expenditures on," he sajd. "When will you people be satisfied? It is just simply a bookkeep that they are not "adequate." She said that were not reported to the secretary that no purpose would be served by of state after the election. ing error." He added that he believes people "ought to get off the governor's releasing the material. She then cut Judge said last week in an interview off the conversation by refusing with the Great Falls Tribune that he back." Moses also said that he could not. further comment. did not know where the Journals were Commissioner of Higher Education or even if they still existed. He pointed release the journals because of his at torney-client relationship with the Lawrence Pettit, who managed out that state law requires only that Judge's campaign, said he would not they be kept for six months after the Judge for Governor Club. He said he could not release the authorize Moses to release the election. material because he is no longer an of Moses, who was hired earlier this material unless an officer of the club ficer of the club. year by the Judge for Governor Club to authorized him to do so. Moses said Pettit, who expressed surprise that determine the cause of the dis that "any number of people" could Moses has the journals, said that he crepancies in the campaign report, authorize him to release the material, has not participated in any campaign said in a telephone interview Monday but he declined to identify particular decisions since the election and that it would serve no purpose to individuals. He said, however, that doesn’t think he could authorize release the Journals and that he was Judge was not one of them. "The governor has never been Moses to release the journals. not authorized to do so. Pettit said that he believes Moses and Patricia Douglas, a legally responsible" for the campaign Armstrong could make that certified public accountant and ad documents, Moses said. "I'd tell him authorization "if she is still listed as ministrative assistant to University of (Judge) that it would be entirely inap secretary of the club, but I don't think Montana President Richard Bowers, propriate" for him to ask that they be it (the club) is listed any more.” conducted a "financial analysis" of released, he added. Pettit added that "it doesn’t make the campaign records in February and Todd Lindberg, Judge's personal ac ERIC FUNK hoists a trout he pulled out of McCormick Park children’s fish any difference to me one way or the March to determine the cause of the countant who assumed management pond yesterday afternoon. (Montana Kaimin photo by J. Malcolm Swan) other" whether the journals are discrepancies. of the club after the election, hired that analysis concluded that the Moses. released. In another development, Lindberg discrepancies were the result of But he said yesterday that he would said that the audit of the Judge cam "bookkeeping errors" in which about not authorize Moses to release the paign conducted by the Internal Church leads Carter Revenue Service was conducted to determine whether taxes were paid on ■ montana an estimated $20,000 in surplus cam paign’funds after the election. in Nebraska primary Lindberg said that the surplus had been invested by the club after the Idaho senator Frank Church, who recent primary losses for the expected election, but that the IRS had received said it would take a miracle to make Reagan win in Nebraska. him a winner in the Nebraska Morton acknowledged that Ford University of Montana • Student Newspaper an anonymous tip that the money had been pocketed by Judge. democratic presidential primary, was would have to win next week's primary in his home state of Michigan to ....Wednesday, May 12, 1976 Missoula, Mont.. Vol 78, No. 97 The IRS audit concluded that Judge leading Jimmy Carter in that race late did not pocket the surplus, but an IRS yesterday. "prove he's viable. .to get his can spokesman in Helena said yesterday Church had 40 per cent of the vote didacy turned around." Church’s win over Carter would that IRS audits would not necessarily compared to 34 per cent for the former breathe new life into the Stop-Carter reveal if any state campaign laws Georgia governor. L hopes of Democrats who would prefer ULAC donations drop were violated. Carter won the Connecticut John Rigler said in a telephone primary, narrowly defeating Rep. another nominee. The Nebraska primary was the first in which Church interview that if an IRS audit un Morris Udall of Arizona, with 33 per despite higher profits covered a violation in state law, the cent of the vote, leading Udall's 31 per was entered. decision would be made on a case by cent. Favorite son Sen. Robert Byrd By LARRY ELKIN junction with another event that PC case basis whether it would disclose Ronald Reagan led President easily won the West Virginia Democratic primary over Alabama Montana Kaimin Reporter and ULAC sponsored jointly. the violation. Gerald Ford in the Republican contest Gov. George Wallace. Carter was not Despite near-tripling in gross There is no such agreement for this He added that that decision would of the Nebraska primary, with Ford entered there. profits from the annual Library Kegger, year's kegger, Staples said, but ULAC probably be made by the national IRS winning in West Virginia, according to For Ford and Reagan, the big test the University Liquid Assets will have to pay PC for the music at office. late returns. now looms in a week in the Michigan Corporation's donation to the the kegger. But Judge said last week in the The partial returns in those two presidential primary. There the University of Montana Library and According to Staples, a number of Tribune interview that the IRS "found contests pointed to a Republican split conservative challenger has stepped other charities fell by 22 per cent from factors caused the remaining $9,000 no illegal campaign contributions, decision— and a showdown in elec up his campaign, with his eye on an 1975 to 1976. increase in operating costs from 1974 corporate or otherwise, no one had tions yet to come. upset that would be a devastating The reason, according to ULAC to 1975. Among them he cited stricter violated any laws of the state of Mon Rogers Morton, Ford's campaign blow to the President’s bid for President Tom Staples, is the rising health, safety and sanitation stan tana or federal government in regards manager, blamed a "domino effect” nomination. cost of staging the kegger and "doing dards, the costs of handling the in to the campaign contributions." precipitated by Ford’s string of four it right.” creased attendance at the event, op According to ULAC's financial position from the Montana Tavern audit for 1975, last year's kegger Owners Association to the kegger and produced a gross profit of $28,286, a legal problem encountered by ULAC. City Democrats vote compared to $10,859 in 1974. But at the same time, the cost of Stricter sanitation standards forced operating the kegger jumped from ULAC to rent portable toilets last year, $3,350 in 1974 to $22,059 in 1975. The raising ULAC's total rental expense to figure for 1976, according to Staples, $3,038 from $284 in 1974. not to oppose Judge is expected to be "around $27,000." The advertising and printing ex There is almost a one-year delay in pense of $2,385 in 1975 may have By PETER TALBOT before he brings the party down with different,” Johnson said.

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