University Daily Kansan, July 14, 1980
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2nd District Senate race pits political novitiate against power
By IAN SIMPSON
Staff Reporter
The race for Douglas County's 2nd District Senate seat features a challenge of one of the Senate's most last-minute entry of a political newcomer.
BERMAN SAID he would run on his record.
State Sen. Arnold Berman, 51, is opposed by Lawrence attorney Jane Eldredge, 36, in his bid for a second term. Berman, also an attorney, and a former nuclear engineer, is the Senate's third-ranking Democrat and the party's caucus chairman. He is a longtime member of the Natural Resources and Energy Committee and the influential Ways and Means Committee.
"I am not going to deviate from basic principles," he said last week. "I will run an issues campaign. I will run on the record of the past four years."
Berman said his record showed he has been a strong supporter of the University of Kansas.
"It is the major industry on which this community is built." he said.
He has sponsored legislation to improve benefits for the elderly and cosponsored a bill that would require investigation of nursing home abuses.
Berman has strong support from labor. In 1976 Berman received more money from organized labor than any other candidate for the Senate in the
He is one of the most vocal members of the Senate and a vigorous debater. John Langstrup Douglas County Republican Party chairman, said his outspokenness worked to Berman's disadvantage.
YOU CATCH more flies with honey than with vinegar, and Arnold's indication is to play to the grandstand, to make the colorful statement.
"Human nature's tendency is to resent abrasive comments," Langstrum said.
Berman rejected Lungstrum's remarks.
"I am abrasive only when I have to be in the legislative process. To provide oversight of the executive branch, sometimes you have to be abrasive, a failing I share with several other members of the Senate," he said.
Berman practices law in both Topeka
Arnold Berman
and Lawrence, and Langstrum said Berman did not cultivate personal support in the community and lacked contact with his constituents.
"He makes his residence here, but he is not part of the community," Lunestrum said.
Eldredge echoed Lungstrum's comments.
"We need some responsive representation and we need it from someone who works here as well as lives here," she said.
know more and am more responsive to the concerns of the community."
"I have not seen any evidence of his involvement in the community. I think I
ELDRDGE, A 1965 Smith College graduate, filed for the race at the eleventh hour registering hours before the June 20 filing deadline.
She is a 10-year resident of Douglas County, is a member of the Pinkney Neighborhood Association, has worked in a variety of community
Jane Eldredge
organizations, and has strong ties to the University. Her husband, Charles, is the director of the Spencer Museum of Art.
She said she was concerned with state school funding and a simplification of the use value appraisal standard for farm land. She thought the present formula threatened the state's agricultural land.
Both candidates said they would begin to campaign in mid-August. Eldrodic said she expected to spend $50 million in the fall and would rely completely on contributions.
Simpson denies charge
By DAN TORCHIA
Staff Reporter
John Simpson, Democratic Senate candidate, denied Friday that he violated Federal Election Commission rules on a $100,000 loan to finance his campaign.
The allegations by James Maher, who is running against Simpson for the Democratic nomination and who filed a complaint with the FEC last week, her on the interest rate of the loan, when Simpson took out in September 1979.
Mather said the loan was made below the usual interest rate at the time. Simpson contended it was made at the going rate.
IF SIMPSON DID get preferential treatment and got the loan at a lower interest rate, it could be a campaign violation.
interest rate of the loan was 11.5 percent for 18 months.
Simpson took out the loan from the Bank of Tescott in Tescott. The money was placed in a trust fund established for Simpson by his late father. The
Simpson has contributed to his campaign committee using money he did not exactly how much he had spent on newspaper reports last week quoted him as saying he had spent about $1,000 in planning to spend $2,000 on his campaign.
"We checked carefully with the FEC." Simpson said. "The loan was made at the prevailing rate of interest and it has been confident there has been no violation."
Pat Alexander, vice president of the First National Bank of Lawrence, said Friday that at the time of the loan, interest rates around the country were 12.5 percent and 132.5 percent. The Bank of Tesco could not be reached for comment.
Alexander said banks in smaller towns often gave lower rates.
"Smaller banks often lag between one and three percentage points, so it is entirely possible that he could have
gotten a lower rate and still be legal," he said.
AFTER BEING NOTIFIED by the FEC, Simpson has 15 days to give reasons why the complaint should be dismissed. If there is reason to believe there has been a violation, the commission will investigate the complain.
Simpson said the FEC had not notified him yet.
I am confident there won't be any problems to my campaign," he said.
Simpson said he had done business with the Tescott Bank before.
That is why he got the loan from there instead of from a bank in Salina, his hometown, he said. Tescott is 30 miles northwest of Salina.
Simpson would not speculate on why Maher filed the complaint.
"I don't know why he did it," he said.
"I found out about it from a reporter."
Simpson said he was not worried about the possible effects of the complaint.
"I am convinced I will win the primary," he said.
KU, area groups join forces
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In answer to the growth of industrial conglomerates and big government, social activists from a variety of organizations in Lawrence have formed a collective called the People's Network.
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Steve Soifer, Network member, said last week that the Network was staffed by a number of merman, KU associate professor of social welfare, to provide a communications link between campus groups committed to social change.
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"People involved in socially progressive things were doing this for the first time," he said. "The People's Network was formed as a mechanism to disseminate information among these different organizations."
THE GROUP has met monthly in different members' homes since March and has been growing steadily as people have found out about it by word of mouth and its monthly newsletter. Solifre said.
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Among the groups who have been represented in the Network's meetings have been KU-Y, the East Lawrence Improvement Association, the Kansas Anti-Draft Organization, the Committee on African Neighborhood Association, the Appropriate Technology Resource Center and Amnesty International, he said.
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"The meetings are altogether open," Suiller said. "Anyone can come who wants to take part in what we are doing."
SOIFFER SAID the group was not affiliated with a political party or a single point of view. He stressed that one of the collective's chief goals was to provide a link between the campus and the community.
"Obviously this is not just a campus thing," Softer said. "We're trying to span the spectrum of people involved with social change and what we're trying to do is close the gap between town and gown."
ANOTHER NETWORK member, Ed Dutton, associate professor of social welfare, also stressed the Network's attempt to provide a link between the University and the community.
"KU people aren't aware of what's happening in the community," Dutton said. "We're trying to help KU people about each other's needs."
Dutton said that the Network's dual nature as a campus and community organization sometimes resulted in differences of opinion among its members about which social problems were most pressing.
"One question the group faces is where to start," he said. "The various neighborhood groups are concerned most with local problems and specific individuals. On the other hand, some of the campus
groups are more concerned with big issues and global problems.
But both groups are concerned with getting people involved."
"The newsletter has been growing very fast," Soiffer said. "We printed 500 copies of 10 pages each for the first one, and the next one will have 1,000 copies."
Soiffer said the Network's newsletter was one of its main projects. Supported by contributions out of its members pockets, the Network newsletter has had three issues, he said.
"We would like to see it level out as a weekly or biweekly tabloid with a circulation of about 2,000."
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Soifier said there had been no trouble getting people to submit articles for publication in the Network's newsletter.
"For the last issue we had 50 pages of articles that had to be edited down to 10." he said.
Soffier said the Network recently purchased the corporate name of a now-defunct Lawrence newspaper called the Public Record. He said the Network's newsletter might soon be published under that name.
ANOTHER OF THE Network's projects is to start a lecture series with accompanying forums on the proposed downtown Lawrence shopping mall.苏ffer said the Network was trying to get nationally prominent figures involved with the proposed organizations to speak in Lawrence.
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