Wednesday, February 23, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 7
The K.U. Student Bar Association presents A Townhall Meeting
U. S. CONGRESSMAN
DENNIS MOORE Kansas Third District
"Elections Have Consequences"
Thursday, Feb 24th from 1:30-2:30,
Green Hall (KU Law School)
Room 104
Discussion of issues shaping Election 2000.
McCain trounces Bush in primaries
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Sen. John McCain thumped George W. Bush in a two-state sweep last night, rallying a coalition of independent and Democratic voters in Michigan and winning his home state of Arizona to seize momentum for a two-week blitz of Republican primaries.
"As I look more electable, we'll start drawing more Republicans," McCain, who received just one fourth of the GOP vote, said. "What I believe we are assembling is the new McCain majority."
Humbled by defeat, the Texas governor said, "This is a marathon, and I'm going to be in it all the way to the end — and some primaries you win and sometimes you don't."
McCain's is the latest victory in a see-sawing Republican nomination race. The Arizonan won New
Arizona — 77 percent reporting John McCain: 60 percent George W. Bush: 36 percent Alan Keyes: 4 percent
PRIMARY RESULTS
■ Michigan — 86 percent reporting John McCain: 50 percent George W. Bush: 44 percent Alan Keyes: 5 percent Uncommitted: 1 percent
Hampshire's leadoff primary in a landslide, lost the followup showdown in South Carolina and won Michigan by a narrow margin.
In each case, Bush and McCain forged mirror-image coalitions: Bush with an overwhelming majority of bedrock Republicans and McCain
reaching outside the party for a similar-sized force of Democrats and independents.
Bush supporters bitterly dismissed McCain's victory.
"John McCain isn't party building, he's party-borrowing," said Michigan Gov. John Engler, who accused the senator of "renting Democrats" for the night. Engler had promised to carry Michigan for Bush, and took blame for the defeat.
Interviews with voters as they left polling places showed that half of the Michigan voters were non-Republicans — independents and Democrats who voted in far larger numbers than in the 1996 open primary in Michigan. Two thirds of McCain's vote came from the non-Republicans, and two-thirds of Bush's vote came from bedrock Republicans.
The race came down to a test of two disparate political coalitions.
Heading into a high-stakes spring of GOP races, Bush and McCain agreed that Michigan's election was pivotal.
Gov. John Engler, who promised to deliver his state to Bush, took the blame for not seeing the wave of Democrats and independents coming.
"I may have to take a lot of the blame because I didn't feel that even though they were targeting Democrats that we ought to engage in that war." he said.
We're going to win both primaries, McCain told reporters, conceding the negative impact if he didn't. "Every day is do or die. We're a high wire act and an insurgency campaign," he said.
Former ambassador Alan Keyes was the only other major GOP candidate, and he lagged far behind in polls.
Truckers rally against hikes in fuel prices
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Independent truckers drove their big rigs yesterday through city streets to Capitol Hill to protest diesel fuel prices and demand tax breaks to offset greatly increased operating costs.
"We're dying," said Douglas Sorantino, a rally organizer and New Jersey truck driver. "We need help now. If they don't do it tomorrow, we won't be around 60 or 90 days from now."
The truckers walked to the Capitol.
More than 200 truckers joined a convoy through the nation's capital to a rally on the Capitol steps.
some carrying signs that read "Enough is Enough" and "Will Work for Fuel."
Truckers were angry that gasoline prices had risen steadily since last March, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries cut crude oil production by 7.5 percent, or more than 2 million barrels a day, to boost prices that had fallen to 12-year lows.
Increases in diesel fuel prices are costing truckers as much as $100 a day, some haulers contended. They said the cost eventually would throw them out of business and wreak havoc on an economy that depended on trucks to transport 90 percent of
goods, including food, clothing, cars and appliances.
Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., sent President Clinton a letter yesterday that said rising prices of fuel and home heating oil should be considered a national emergency.
With some large trucks averaging just 5.5 miles per gallon and fuel tanks that hold as much as 150 gallons, truckers say their costs are astronomical.
Protesters want Congress and President Clinton to repeal or suspend a 24-cent federal excise tax paid at the pump on diesel and investigate the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
White House spokesman Joe
Lockhart said yesterday that repealing the tax was not a viable option because most of the money went toward building highways that truckers use.
Truckers also asked the White House to release oil from a government reserve of almost 600 million barrels. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cautioned last week against tapping the reserve, which he said should be used only to counter a crisis such as a total shutdown of Middle East oil supplies.
The crunch also is being felt by home heating oil consumers, whose costs have doubled in some parts of the country.
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"LEARNING TO HEAR THE STORIES"A WORKSHOP ON ORAL HISTORY AND TRADITIONS
Leonard Bruguiet—University of South Dakota
Charles J. Haddix—UMKC , KCUR -FM
The Workshop is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided to those registering by February 28th.
Don Fixico—University of Kansas
james stevens Rowena Stewart—American jazz Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Deborah Dandridge—University of Kansas
Jerry W. Ward, Jr.—Tougaloo College, Mississippi
MODERATORS: MaryEmma Graham, Bud Hirsch, and Tom Lewin
Kimi Lacy Rogers - Dickinson College
Steven Strong - Haskell Indian Nations University
WORKSHOP DISCUSSIONS
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ORAL HISTORY AND ORAL TRADITIONS RECLAIMING TRADITIONS: NATIVE AMERICAN ORAL HISTORY HOW TO GET THE REAL STORY I: CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE SOUTH HOW TO GET THE REAL STORY II: KANSAS AND MIDWEST WRAP-UP: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
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