THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 The Daily Iowan TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2006 WWW.DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ LAVALLEE’S CRÊPES Hoping to govern WHERE TO VOTE CANDIDATES Polls for today’s primary elections will open at 7 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. To be eligible, voters must be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican Parties or register with either at their polling places, which can be found by accessing http://www.johnson-county.com/audi- tor/lst_precinctPublicEntry.cfm. Voters are eligible to vote only for candidates from their registered party. Today’s winners will repre- sent their respective parties in the Nov. 7 general election. MIKE BLOUIN CHET CULVER ED FALLON Blouin graduated from Culver, the son of Fallon graduated from Dubuque’s Loras College former U.S. Sen. John Drake University with a with a degree in political Culver, graduated from degree in religion in science in 1966. After a Virginia Tech University 1986. He was elected to stint as a teacher in with a B.A. in political the Iowa House of Dubuque, he was elected science in 1988 and a Representatives in to the Iowa Legislature at master’s from Drake in 1992, and he is age 22, followed by two 1994 before teaching currently serving his terms in the U.S. House. high school in Des seventh-consecutive BACKGROUND He later worked in the Moines for four years. term. Fallon is the Carter administration, and Culver was elected executive director and he most recently served Iowa’s secretary of co-founder of 1,000 as the director of the State in 1998; his Friends of Iowa, an Iowa Department of second term will expire organization promoting Economic Development. in January. Culver is 40 responsible land use. Blouin is 60 years old. years old. He is 48 years old. Blouin wants Culver has proposed Fallon asserts that tax programs to make all cuts and other additional funding freshman-level college irresponsible fiscal for Iowa’s courses available to policies have made universities to freeze high-school seniors at college unaffordable for HIGHER tuition increases, and nearly little or no many families. He expense and to grant supports the Iowa he supports one year at a regent Tuition Grant Program, EDUCATION increasing medical university or two years which gives small research. at a community college scholarships to free of charge to students attending low-income students. private colleges. Blouin hopes Iowa’s Culver wants to Fallon wants to use fuel use will consist commit $100 million available wind and of 25 percent to renewable-energy biofuel energy sources renewable fuels by research, which he to cut Iowa’s reliance 2015. He wants to feels would lure on oil and coal and to increase emission taxes ENERGY remove legislation private interests to on fossil fuels, while Lindsey Walters/The Daily Iowan restricting small- also invest in decreasing taxes for Erin Weitzell watches Amos Petersen cut strawberries for a berries and cream crêpe on the scale wind farming. renewable energy. renewable energy Pedestrian Mall Monday afternoon. Weitzell and Petersen are business partners at production. LaVallee’s Crêpes, a food cart that opened on May 1. The cart is open every day, depending on the weather. Blouin touts the Iowa Culver hopes to create Fallon has pushed for Values Fund as a jobs in Iowa by strong antitrust laws to program that expanding the state’s enable small encourages infrastructure, businesses to compete promoting a solid with large corporations. BON APPÉTIT ON ECONOMIC businesses to keep He has called the Iowa manufacturing base, jobs in Iowa through giving more state aid to Values Fund a program tax incentives. that is “not PROGRESS small business, and accountable” and will ensuring government never reach its lofty incentives lead to job-creation goals. THE PED MALL employment. Amos Petersen, an Iowa City resident, has opened a ‘I am running for ‘I’m running for ‘I’m running to restore governor for one governor because I Iowa’s voice in crêpe stand, LaVallee’s, on the Pedestrian Mall WHY ARE YOU reason: I believe I can believe we can build on government, which has City resident and aspiring unbearably cold, he make a difference. I our strengths in educa- dwindled to a whisper BY MONICA SCHULZ believe I have the tion, manufacturing, because of the THE DAILY IOWAN entrepreneur was unwit- returned to Iowa City, busi- RUNNING FOR experience, the record, and agriculture to cre- corrupting influence of tingly made an au pair for a ness plan in tow. and the dedication to be ate good jobs with special interest money When life as a squatter in pair of devilish, crêpe-loving Five years later, Petersen GOVERNOR? an excellent governor good benefits in every and corporate an abandoned Paris hotel for Iowa.’ corner of this state.’ interests.’ English children. and partners Erin Weitzell, lost its allure, Amos a UI art major, and Petersen went to the French Petersen spent nine Look inside for supervisor and county attorney candidates positions, 7 months cooking, cleaning, Matthew LaVallee, who has countryside. since resigned, opened Thinking he was taking a and learning to make crêpes LaVallee’s, a crêpe stand on The fourth gubernatorial candidate in today’s Democratic primary, Sal Mohamed, was not included because job as a farmhand in the vil- in the Rudlin household, but his stance on the issues mentioned here is unclear. His platform rests on advancing Iowa’s per capita income the Pedestrian Mall. lage of Grosbout, the then when sleeping in the rafters to that of the national average. Using a pool of experts in a variety of fields, Mohamed proposes to overhaul 22-year-old former Iowa of the family’s barn became SEE LAVALLEE’S, PAGE 7 state government and improve the quality of life for Iowans. St. Patrick’s Church remains damaged Tornado victims waiting from the April 13 ‘We simply don’t know, yet. We’re in a situation where we have to wait and see.’ tornadoes on Monday — Rev. Rudy Juarez evening. The BY GRANT SCHULTE recalled, as he picked through the religious leaders — are still strug- 1 Rev. Rudy THE DAILY IOWAN wreckage of his 928 ⁄2 Iowa Ave. gling to recover, nearly two months Juarez is home. The business major from later. Requests for federal disaster Alex Siek abandoned his apart- waiting for an Blairstown, Iowa, is still piecing his aid remain unanswered. And ques- ment — or what was left of it — with life together, even after his profes- tions linger about the status of one insurance a fistful of shirts, his boxing gloves, sors allowed him to finish the report and an and the 3.0 grade-point average he of the city’s prized churches, dam- semester with the grades he had engineer’s had earned before the April 13 tor- earned at the time. aged in the storm, while members nado plowed through his bedroom. In the storm’s aftermath, many hold mass in the parish hall. report before His classes were the least of his residents hit hardest — students, any repair concerns, the displaced UI senior homeowners, business owners, and SEE TORNADO, PAGE 7 Lindsey Walters/The Daily Iowan work begins. MAKING A PITCH BARE (& NOT SO BARE) SPOKESMAN FOR INDEX 82 28 C The Hawkeye baseballers are TRUTH PEACE Arts 5 © © 10 determined to show next season Photographer Steve Carlson believes in Kevin Deame knows the wheels of Classifieds Mostly cloudy, Crossword 6 59 15 C that the 2005 season was no windy, 60% chance the interplay of form and environment, peace turn slowly — he started Opinions 4 of T-storms fluke. 12 which sometimes means good nudes 5 peddling them 3,866 miles ago. 3 Sports 12 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday, June 6, 2006 NEWS The Daily Iowan Labor issues dog school-bus co. Volume 138 Issue 2 BREAKING NEWS STAFF BY DANNY VALENTINE company policy forbidding the will continue to fear for their Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: THE DAILY IOWAN discussion of personnel issues. job security until a contract is FIRST STUDENT E-mail: [email protected] William Casey. 335-5788 Post-unionization challenges in place. 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