This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu April 22, 1994 MEMORANDUM TO SENATOR DOLE FROM: SUZANNE HELLMANN RE: VIRGINIA POLITICAL BRIEFING ISSUES OF CONCERN IN VIRGINIA l.. Abortion -- the State legislature just rejected Governor Allen• s bill to require doctors to notify a parent before performing abortions on minors. Allen will veto. 2. Walt Disney Co. Theme Park -- avoid this issue. 3. Five-year dispute with federal retirees over back taxes - hearings are being held around the State and action will be taken in the Assembly on May l.l.. (see enclosed article) 4. Governor Allen has a bill in that would bar public education for illegal immigrants 18 and older. 5. Health care is expected to cost VA more than 40,000 jobs and more than $1. billion in additional expenses according to Gov. Allen's assessment. U.S. SENATE RACE o The circus continues with former Gov. Wilder making moves to enter the race as an Independent. However, the Democrats are urging him to stay out fearing that his involvement would result in a sure win for Oliver North (should he beat Miller). o Former Gov. Wilder may have to pay back more than $45,000 in excessive federal matching funds. (See enclosed article). o Senator Warner has supposedly urged former governor nominee Marshall Coleman (R) to run as an Independent. The State GOP would prefer that he run as a Republican and have a petition to that effect. o Mr. Farris, '9 3 LG nominee, has not endorsed any candidate but has said "Ollie may give courage to other good Republicans and Democrats to stand up and say the same things and make the Senate more relevant to what really matters in America." Page 1 of 59 This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu Retirees Say Allen Plan Is Taxing Their Patience By Peter Baker George Allen is an insult at best- Waabingtoo POil Staff Writer and a betrayal at worst. "There's more involved here, as They've been waiting five years far as I'm concerned, than a dollar for their money. Waiting through sign," said Edward Maksimoski, three administrations in Richmond. 77, of Vienna, one of 250 retirees Waiting through countless court who packed a public hearing in An- hearings and briefs and rulings and nandale yesterday. "It is the treat- appeals. Waiting for what they see ment of people. I personally as simple justice. feel as if I have been rejected, I This wasn't what they had in have been discriminated against as mind. Not by a long shot. an individual." To many of the 186,000 federal And at their age, the retirees retirees whose pensions were say, time is hardly on their side; truced illegally by Virginia in the "We all hear about death and tax- SY ANNALISA KRAFT FOR THE WASHINGTON POST 1980s, the 50-cents-on-the-dollar es," said Robert Moore, 73, a re- Retirees applaud speaker at public hearing at Northern Virginia Community College In Annandale. settlement proposed by Gov. See PENSION, D6, CoL 1 Page 2 of 59 This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu 06 FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1994 ... Jl 1 THE WASHINGTON POST Tux Refund Plan During Public Meeting in Annandale Assail Allen's ~' ~ Retirees '. t .... inter- phone calls as he did during the dispute over he's due $9,000, including interest. "Everyone leader to stumble into this political bmr . PENSION, From D1 $2,530 in extra taxes, plus $1,294 in est, from 1985 through 1988. And as of Dec. subsidizing the new Walt Disney Co. theme knows if the taxpayer came in here and said, patch. :::! tired Air Force officer from Springfield still 31, the state calculated that full refunds plus park.. Del. Richard L. Fisher (R-Vienna) said 'I'm having financial problems, I can't pay my When the Supreme Court first ruled .ili waiting for his $5,000 in overpaid taxes. "I'm interest would cost $707.5 million-roughly he received so many me5sages that his voice taxes, let me pay half and take four years to do 1989 that the state could not tax federal retir~" afraid death will arrive before many of us ev- equivalent to the amount needed to build mail finally stopped accepting new calls. Earli- it,' the tax collector would laugh in his face and ees without taxing pensions of state worker8;- er receive our tax refunds." enough new prisons to abolish parole, as Al- er this week, Senate Majority Leader Hunter take him for all he's worth." then-Gov. Gerald L. Baliles proposed tax cocle: The intensity of anger over Allen's plan has len has promised. Every day that goes by, B. Andrews CD-Hampton) was shouted down The take-it-or-leave-it proposal was all the changes that were rejected immediately. Fat..'.. stunned Virginia's political establishment and another $77,000 in interest piles up. by a livid retiree who ordered the veteran law- some retirees because Allen mer attorney general Mary Sue Terry aiJa.:.; more stinging to a poSition ·effectively rendered his proposal dead on ar- Under the governor's plan, developed by maker to "just shut up!" promised during last year's mantly resisted any settlement, that: and Gilmore both cost her votes last year against Allen. · .. ._ rival. Legislativ~ leaders who first were recep- Attorney General James S. Gilmore ill, a fel- The retirees who crowded yesterday's campaign to settle the case. Allen told audienc- Community For the retirees at yesterday's hearirij~ tive to the governor staged a full-scale retreat low Republican, retirees would have until hearing at the Northern Virginia es of pensioners that the state had a "moral ob- of four held around the there was some gratitude that Allen, at l~tj[ this week, postponing a vote until May 11 and Sept. 15 to agree to getting back half of their College-one ligation" to give them their money back, al- Those who don't take state-were more polite, but they rein- was offering something. But that :doesn't ~ starting work on their own alternatives. taxes with no interest. though the retirees now ruefully admit that has money-paid in four annual sums-must forced that sense of resentment during minish Donald R. Wiesnet's disap1>9intment~ "' "The governor's proposal, I don't think, the they never pinned him down to a dollar figure. said Sen. Robert L. file a new lawsuit in Richmond by that date or hours of testimony. "Today, I'm ashamed of Virgµiia," the 61:-· any viability at this point," "I can only come to one conclusion," said Calhoun (R-Alexandria). "He may have miscal- forever surrender their rights to any refund. The equation, as they see it, is simple: year-old Vienna resident told the 20 or .'&I. Andrew Prokop, 75, a retired flight inspec- culated the reaction to it. That's always the The reaction has been downright hostile, The money is theirs and they shouldn't have lawmakers assembled. ,· •.•.. Allen solely because of th~ 'il. danger when you try to do things too fast." particularly in Northern Virginia, where a to accept one penny less. tor who voted for Wiesnet then presented panel with The stakes involved are tremendous for third of the retirees live. · · "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the that pledge. ''They were only saying that to gift for Allen. It was half a loaf of bread. ~ both sides. State Sen. Charles L. Waddell CD-Loudoun) gander," said Richard E. Ely, 78, a retired gov- buy our votes." side was a note. "Thank you," if. said, "but 11~ The retirees are owed an average of said he has gotten almost as many angry tele- ernment lawyer from Annandale who figures Allen, though, is only the latest Virginia thank you." . ---·----·- ·- . ---·-···· -=- ·- -- -- - · "' .... ,. .... -- I 11'\1'\t .. · ··· Page 3 of 59 This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu ·. .... -.. ,,;i· '' AHen ,, kills 'weak' Allen vetoes '~ ·· · · - -A-B~O~R~T~l~O~N:""'!f-ro-m-=-A~1 -:~;mr0~~:~;f !:!.!~:.!-.:....:...:..~~~---- - ''.--, - -'·:< ... riolifi,cation. bill Planned Parenthood, was pleased· . with the veto but criticized Allen'~ _ By ANGELA RUCKER .tify any one of several adult fam- Journal staff writer reasoning. ily members or a judge before . "Pro-family has got nothing to de RICHMOND - Gov. George .. F . having an abortion. Allen wanted with his sentiments sh~ en killed on this bill," ··'" . a billyesterday that to change the bill to force girls to said. µId hav~ required . :. : ··.. · . -. ... ·._;· . ~:· parental no- notify parents/or legal guardians. Fiona Givens lobbyist Vir--·,-,'~:\~_,:.;o· . 1cation for a minor seeking an for the ·-.._..,.. ,.,; · ·ortion rather than approve a The veto forced both the Sen- ginia Socie~ fo~ Hwnan Life, calle~£~~; .:~;;.~_.~:;{:.~t~~~1" ~ened.\'."er8ionJhe l~~on. ate and House to meet in an effort the Senate qill weak. ~' '~..", ~'f-::-:-.::..o)'.:'<1;...;,.>-~ to overi:lde the governor's ve~. ..,.,._;,,,, ''Virginia wants parental notice.. :;...,;::,,,.".. ~::,·-,:.;;-':-..:,'~,'.;:-:"'" not family notice," she said. q~~~; . ~~,i~t;{";~ ':f Allen's J~to carne'afterthe Sen- - As ~f ye~rday evening, mfuiy,' ,-f::: ruurowly def~ed all but tWo By vetoing a bill he introduced, M ..~.;;,~: .7.:;:2.. "': " ;~·;i:,; :-; members of the General Assen'f-.f. len may have put an end to the is~u<;=~·<::~J;~··~~-:-,;. __- ~\~: ·: f his amendments that would bly said they did not ~xpect_~ij:., .