\ M - MANCHESTER HERALD. Thursday. Jan. 23. 1986 CONNECTICUT SPORTS FOCUS Moffett hits O’Neill’s ‘free staff, rent’ More than 100 seek Governor’s aide admits use,of state time, facilities NU foes blast Whale not like Kickoff deals V state watchdog post ( )) governor’s announcement speech rate hike request old Kotsy clubs abound Sunday By Judd Everhart Jan. 10 had taken two hours’ HARTFORD (U P I) - The field of candidates for ‘ h® The Associated Press created post of state (nspector general has grown to about lOO ana 1X1 In 1982, questions were raised about O’Neill personal time off to be there. He L u ... p ag e 9 ... page 13 also said the governor’s announce­ more applications could be coming In, officials say. i . j „ « ... p ag e 7 HARTFORD — Democratic gub­ using state mails to distribute campaign- ment speech had been written by A legislative committee screening applications for the watcna g ernatorial candidate Toby Moffett related material. He later reimbursed the O’Neill aide Timothy Bannon at position has extended until Jan. 31 Its deadline for accepting says Gov. William A. O’Neill home. applications and will begin Interviewing candidates the following should not be allowed to conduct state. Jeffrey B. Garfield, executive W66k. j t even the slightest amount of director of the elections commis­ Fifteen candidates have been selected for the initial rou™ campaign-related work out of the printing, free postage and tree sion, said he had received Mof­ interviews, but none of the contenders has been ruled out, said Kep. governor’s office. campaign work has been done fett’s request on Tuesday. William P. Candelori, D-New Britain, co-chairman of the screening “ We think this goes to the from this office,” adding that gasoline. “ If you add that up. a campaign “ I ’m studying the issues raised committee. ___ integrity of the process and we O’Neill “ has been very, very The inspector general’s office was created under a law enacted that’s anywhere near being rea­ in the letter and will respond to Mr. intend to pursue it,’’ said Moffett, a adamant about that.” But when last year to conduct “ preemptive” inspections and investigations oi sonably geared up, you’re talking Caplan as soon as possible.” former congressman who is chal­ pressed about copies of the speech programs related to the collection and distribution of state funds and lenging O’Neill for this year’s and the letter, he confirmed that about $50,000 to $100,000.” Moffett Garfield said. said. “ I think it’s a classic and He declined comment on the Democratic gubernatorial O’Neill staffers had done that Under the law creating the office, the legislative screening unfortunate case of taking power practice of having the governor’s nomination. work, committee will recommend three candidates to the state auditors, ilaurhratrr) Manchester — A City ol Village Charm limlh staff make copies of campaign- On Wednesday, O’Neill aide Jon for granted and taking taxpayers “ This is a new twist on public related materials, saying “ those who will then choose one whose name will go back to the luii Sandberg acknowledged that the for granted.” financing of campaigns.” said Marc Caplan. Moffett’s cam­ are the kinds of issues being Legislatire for confirmation. governor’s staff made copies for Moffett. “ Apparently the O’Neill An initial round of advertising late last year in Connecticut the media of the governor’s paign chief, had asked the elec­ raised.” approach is that just one candidate He said he expected to have a newspapers brought in ” a little over 50 applications,” said David B. 25 Cents re-election announcement speech tions commission to look into Friday, Jan. 24, 1986 gets public funds ” response for Caplan in a week or Ogle, executive director of the Office of Legislative Management. and a letter from mayors and first questions about how much, if any, two. selectmen endorsing O’Neill. Moffett said O'Neill has been a campaign work could be done by Subsequent advertising in out-of-state newspapers and Moffett said he would wait for The time and money it took to candidate for re-election since O’Neill’s staff during business tions targeted to black and Hispanic readers have brought n Garfield’s response before decid­ make and distribute the copies creating his campaign committee hours. additional applications, with the total now at about 100, Ogle said in October and should have had a In 1982. questions were raised ing what further action to take. Human services leader says outlook isn’t bright may have been minimal but the He noted that a campaign issue was raised last week by separate campaign office operat­ about O'Neill using state mails to He estimated that about 55 percent of the applicants are from distribute campaign-related mate­ finance report filed this month by Moffett in a letter to the state ing since then. Connecticut. The names of the applicants are being withheld from session of the General Assembly. Department of Income Mainte­ rial. He later reimbursed the state, O’Neill’s campaign committee By Susan Vaughn have lifelong medical problems begins Feb. 5 is the lack of minority groups. Elections Enforcement Instead. Moffett said, “ we're the public as is common in personnel matters. The governor’s package in­ nance, said today. Sandberg said that O'Neill showed that he had raised $26,317 Herald Reporter such as mental retardation, cere­ accessibility to proper health care The percentage of non-white Commission. talking about three months of free cludes money for school-based Melmed said his organization staffers who had attended the so far but spent nothing. bral palsy, learning disabilities for thousands of children in the Connecticut women who had ac­ At first, Sandberg said that “ No rent, free phones, free staff, free health clinics and preventive and other human services groups Because it refuses to pay $450 in and chronic lung problems, state, Melmed said. Lack of cess to prenatal care dropped from health care services for the work­ will ask the Legislature to raise the 2 prenatal care costs for some poor Melmed said. prenatal care results in high infant 72 percent in 1979 to 66 percent in ing poor. Melmed pointed out that income limits so that more poor women, the state has wound up “ Kids born unhealthy cost a lot mortality and low birth weights, he 1983, Melmed said. 2 many women in the state who are people will qualify for Medicaid footing $100,000 hospital bills for and they cost a lot further on in life. said. “ You are seeing a situation ‘Demon’ working for minimum wage make benefits. The social service agen­ CALDOR their children, the head of the Long-term institutional care can Melmed said that statistics show where the poor are not getting the only about $7,020 a year. But those cies also would like the Legislature Connecticut Association for Hu­ cost as much as $34,000 a year,” he that Connecticut has made no type of care they need,” he said. CIRCULAR SALE women are often making too much to make a major one-time increase man Services said Thursday. said. progress in addressing low birth Melmed said his organization’s killer to money to qualify for Medicaid, the in caps on Aid to Families of Continues Through “ The state’s being penny-wise The association is using cost weights in recent years. In 1978,6.7 efforts during the past year state program that pays for Dependent Children to bring the and pound foolish,” Matthew effectiveness and humaneness as percent of the babies born in the resulted in a recommendation to S a tu rd a y medical care for low-income state’s level closer to the federal Melmed told the Manchester Com­ its main arguments in lobbying state weighed less than 5 pounds, 8 the Legislature by Gov. William residents. limit. go home munity Services Council at a state legislators for expanding the ounces. In 1984, that percentage O’Neill for a $7.7 million human In order to qualify for Medicaid, Other human services issues to luncheon meeting at Emanuel services available to poor women was still at 6.6 percent, he said, and services spending package. But he 3 the rate is “ dramatically higher” was not optimistic about the a person can make no more than be targeted in the Legislature will 4 C A l i D O R One of the major issues the BROOKFIELD (AP) — After Lutheran Church. in areas where there are high chances for passage of much social $4,296 a year, Claudette Beaulieu, serving five years in a state prison Children born to women without association has targeted for the Legislature in the session that concentrations of poor people and service legislation in the upcoming a spokeswoman for the state Please turn to page 3 where authorities said he had been prenatal care are more likely to a model prisoner, a man who stabbed his landlord to death — under demonic possession, he claimed — has returned home. Flights Ante Cheyenne Johnson. 24. GOP leaders whose story was made into a prime-time television movie, mar­ a warning ried and received a high-school degree in prison, and was released on parole Friday, one month early. to Libya doubt Reagan The state’s chief of parole said had been an “ exemplary inmate” /DUniDE/lfilXjJ since his Feb. 17. 1981. arrest for WASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S stabbing Alan Bono. 40. the owner KODAK Tele Disc Camera 80UNDESIGN 2-Line Phone warplanes began flight operations budget goals of a Brookfield kennel, to death a POLAROID One Step 600 off Libya today to send a ’’strong day earlier.