Friday, October 27, 1978
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University Daily Kansan
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Staff Reporter
Bill Roy, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, apparently was just waiting for a chance to re-enter Kansas politics when Republican Sen. James Pearson announced he would not run for re-election to the Senate after serving 18 years.
According to Pellegerstam, manager of Roy's campaign, Roy made a tentative decision to run for the Senate the same day he was announced in late August that he would retire.
He considers his experience in the House his greatest asset. His opponent, Nancy
Roy lost a bid for the Senate in 1976, when he was narrowly defeated by Republican Robert Dole. Before that he was a member of Congress from Kansas 2nd district.
Kassebaum, is inexperienced in legislative matters, he says, and he says his experience alone is sufficient reason for him to be elected.
IN ADDITION to being a politician, Roy,
52, is a physician and a lawyer. He graduated from Northwestern University
and from Washburn University law school.
Like most candidates this year, Roy thinks inflation is the overwhelming concern of the voters. He says cutting government spending is the solution to the problem.
Throughout the campaign Roy has said that to make bureaucrats feel the pinch of inflation he would enact legislation that would allow all state officials making more than $47,000 a year.
1. was in Washington during the recession several years ago," Roy said. "Every time inflation went up so did government spending. These people didn't even know it was going on."
Roy's proposed plan also would freeze birnea in government departments.
To cut government spending Roy advocates cutting 2 to 5 percent off the budget of all federal agencies and departments. He also supports measures to widen the tax brackets so pay increases brought about by tax cuts will not push people into higher tax brackets.
ONE OF ROY'S more novel proposals has been to separate the Department of Education from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Such a move, according to Roy, would centralize all educational programs offered by the University.
Roy has said the change could be made with no increase in personnel and would be subject to the cuts and freezes he wants for all departments.
"Those people (Congress) are dwellin in an economic fairy land," Roy said. "A 30 percent cut in taxes is not going to increase government revenues as they claim."
Questions concerning Roy's stand on national health insurance and socialized medicine have come up at nearly all the physician-politician's appearances. And he has responded by opposing virtually all government involvement in the medical
Roy has given conditional support to tuition tax credits, supporting those for parents with children in college but not for parents of secondary or primary school
HE HAS COME out against tax cuts such as the recently defeated Kemp-Roth
In any election, taxes are a big issue. This year the issue is particularly relevant as both the House and Senate consider massive tax cuts in the era of Proposition 13.
In line with his position on government spending Roy called midway through his campaign for an investigation of the efficiency of the Pentagon.
While he has said a credit is preferable to an exemption he has expressed a doubt that it will render any relief or remove the need for federal grant and loan programs.
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He said that as much as $900 million could be eliminated from the defense budget by tech spending.
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Roy also supports, and Kassebaum opposes, legislative action to achieve total parity for farm prices. However, Roy has said he would prefer to see parity achieved through the market place with the aid of government quotas.
"Even if parity can't be achieved in this country, we should sell agricultural products to farmers. It 'makes no sense to sell wheat abroad at $1.50 a bushel when it is generally accepted by the farmers."
Roy has made few proposals in relation to energy issues. However, he has supported the deregulation of natural gas and all other forms of energy.
"I FAVOR the deregulation of natural gas because I think prices should rise to where they are now, eventually, with careful monitoring, all energy pricing should be deregulated so we can see how it works."
In general, Roy is an advocate of nuclear energy. He says he would work for a ban on the construction of fast breeder reactors because of concerns where the nuclear waste would be stored.
Looking back to his defeat in 1975 Roy has said that it was wholly the result of the $350,000 difference in campaign spending between the two candidates. In that campaign Roy expended $850,000 and Dole spent $1.2 million.
Unlike the 1976 Senate campaign, there has been relatively little mud-slinging in support of a candidate bantering between the candidates has come over disclosure of personal assets and tax returns.
IN A CHALLENGE to Kassebus, Roy made public a statement of his net worth and copies of his tax returns for the last two years.
The report showed that Roy made $104,000 in 1977 and $75,000 was taxable under federal law. During that same year Roy made $138,264 in taxes and his assets were listed at $23,000.
Kassebaum issued a report of her assets and income for the previous year, but would not have been given by the auditors showing her deductions. The report showed that Kassebaum earned $92,289 in 1977 and $34,855 in 1978.
Democratic candidates for the senate have traditionally had rough going in Kansas. Should Roy be elected it would mean a runoff, which Senator from Kansas in more than 40 years
Roy said he thought the Republican dominance in Kansas was ending.
"In the next decade a two party state will emerge in Kansas," Roy said. "And the start will be the election of a Democratic senator."
Kassebaum a low-cost campaigner
By TIM SHEEHY
Staff Reporter
The ascension of Nancy Kassebaum to Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate has been a story of incongruities and surprises.
Kassebaum's primary victory makes her the first woman ever nominated for a federal office in Kansas by the Republican party.
Initially the underdog in a pack of nine, Kassebaum, 46, went on to win the nomination last August in a primary race noted for larger expenditures.
Campaigning on the slogan "a fresh new face, a trusted Kansas name," Kasebaum won the primary with only 31 percent of the nominations and appreciably less than her onenoments.
Sam Hardage, the biggest spender in the primary race, laid out a quarter of a million dollars.
Kassebaum's public experience is centered on community services and media work. She has also managed her own sizable estate.
BEFORE ENTERING the Senate race she was the vice-president of two Wichita radio stations. She served on the Kansas Board of Public Schools and the Kansas Committee for the Humanities, and the Maize School Board. She has also worked on the Kansas United Fund Drive, programs for handicapped children, and on public health state-wide drug prevention programs.
Kassebaum received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Kansas and a Masters degree in diplomatic history from the University of Michigan.
Throughout the campaign no major ideological differences surfaced between Kassbaum and her Democratic opponent Dr. Bill Roy, but methods of dealing with inflation produced by far the greatest amount of political rhetoric.
Her only Washington experience has been a one-year stint as a caseworker and floor cleaner.
KASSEBAUM HAS taken a hard line on controlling government spending as a solution to inflation, as has her opponent Dr. Roy.
She has said that as a senator she would seek to band with other senators of the same philosophy in voting against appropriation bills that contain padding or waste.
According to Kassebaum, the senate has become isolated from the needs of the people by the large additions of staff in recent years.
"The senate is becoming a bureaucracy in itself." Kasshebua said. "The constant staff has only served to isolate the senator and them insensitive to the effects of inflation."
Cuts in the salaries of the president and vice-president have become familiar for both chambers.
other Republicans in the wake of Proposition 13.
However, Kassebaum has not come out in support of massive tax cuts popular with
"I oppose a large tax cut not because I am against cutting taxes in principle," Kassbaum said, "but I think we have to cut government spending first as a showing of the problem."
HOWEVER SHE has supported a cut in the capital gains tax, saying the economic stimulus had helped.
Kasbaheim has come out against the Caution tax credit bill currently before the House. The House will provide real relief for parents with children in college and would add $12 billion to the
Kassebaum's most surprising stands of the campaign have been on the issues of parity for farm products and extension of knowledge in identification of theEqual Rights Amendment.
Kassabaum's statement in relation to parity has changed little throughout the century.
HER OPPOSITION to parity does not extend to efforts made through the market place, however, and she has advocated for coups that plumuses as a bargaining tool in foreign espionage.
"It is great to offer parity as an ideal to work for." Kassaehman has said. "I don't want to interfere with the public false promise. It's just not going to pass Congress with its potential inflationary benefits."
"The dialogue concerning ERA has become sharp and misunderstood," Kassaebaum said. "We need to marshal our strength to work for specific legislation, such as pregnancy disability insurance and maternity treatment for women under the capital gains tax."
Being a woman, Kassabeh's opposition to extending the time limit for the ERA has surprised many people. However, she said she could only believe that the ERA has been pruned-internally.
been to support arguments for the SALT II campaign, as a position of strength. However, when she faced an unexpected spending, she has said that she might vote against a defense budget if it was in her favor.
ISSUES PERTAINING to foreign affairs and energy have not come up as major topics of discussion during the campaign but were created in general terms by both candidates.
Kassebaum has come out in favor of abortion as a choice, saying it is seldom the right moral choice but should be a choice nonetheless.
In relation to federally funded abortions she opposes any action which would loosen the right to abortion.
Abortion has failed to become as important an issue as in the last senate race.
Roy's most frequent criticism of Kassebaum has been her lack of experience in legislative matters. Kassebaum has countered by saying her understanding of the issues and life experiences qualify her for the job.
Kassbeau favors the deregulation of natural gas, but has not made a stand concerning deregulating the price of other sources of energy.
She has said that, if elected, she would work to see that more federal money be invested in seeking alternative sources of energy.
In response to a challenge by Roy, Kassbeaum made public her personal finances. The report, drawn up by her accountant, shows her net worth to be $2.04
virtually the only statement Kassaebus has made in the area of foreign affairs has
ACCORDING TO financial disclosure reports filed with the office of the secretary of state, Kassabeham has spent less than the norm for Republican Senatorial candidates.
Kausbaum's money is invested in Wichita real estate and in the two Wichita schools.
Roy has attempted to make a campaign issue out of Kassebau's refusal to make changes in his position.
Kassebaum said she was honoring the wishes of her husband by not disclosing it.
However, she did reveal that in 1977 she paid $ 0.75 in taxes on an adjusted income of paid $ 0.75 in taxes on an adjusted income of
Roy charged that from the information disclosed by his opponent it was impossible to know what happened and why taxes she paid that year. He added that it is her responsibility to let the voters know what happened.
Kassebaum responded by saying she had not sought out shelters, and that the low taxes were a result of depreciation and damage to buildings and buildings she and her husband own in Wichita.
When Roy persisted in his demand that she publicize her returns, she made a final refusal and asked Roy should get back to her. Roy did not rather than aspects of her personal wealth.
Nancy Kassebaum
The 1979 U.S. Senate will have a familiar face missing from its ranks when it assembles in January. A senator from Kansas since 1961, James B. Pearson announced his retirement last August. Since then, Democrat Bill Roy, Republican Nancy Kusseb曼 and Conner Mitchell have waged intensive campaigns to win the senate seat. Pearson is on Nov. 25.
James Maher has been seen little and heard from relatively few times, compared to Bill Roy and Nancy Kussebaum, his opponents for the vacant U.S. Senate.
However, the Conservative party candidate still says he has a legitimate chance to be the winner after the Nov. 7 election.
Maher looking for impossible dream
"The poll shows her (Kasselbaum) and whata-his-name (RoY) almost even and with our 50,000 assured votes that we think we have, we'll decide the winner."
"We call it the impossible dream," he said. "That would be where the voters are disenchanted with the two major party candidates and instead vote for the
James Maher
Even if Mather is defeated, he feels he will be the deciding factor in determining the winner.
BEING AN INDEPENDENT candidate brings several inherent disasters to his life. He is said. The two largest disadvantages are the lack of money and often being a victim of scams.
Recently, Maher threatened to sue the University of Kansas for allegedly neglecting to include him in a debate between KU's Student Union Activities and KU's Student Union Activities.
Also, because of little financial backing, Mather has been unable to spend as much on the campaign as his opponents. He says he has only $7,000 on his campaign since the primary elections in August. At the same time, Roy and Kasai have been able to campaign for the same period at $125,825 and $131,143 respectively.
"We're always looking for backers and supporters who want to be aligned with our thinking and want to be independent of the major parties," he said.
DESPITE THE FINANCIAL woes and
be overlooked sometimes at political appearances, Mather says there are advantages to being a candidate independent of a major party.
"We can align ourselves with people who want to vote for personal conviction rather than old party ties," he said. "Another advantage is that we are a vehicle for positive thought, a constructive move that is best for the country."
"A vote for us is a mandate from Kansans who want less taxes, less government and less inflation."
His first move for cutting taxes would be a 25 percent tax cut that would begin with the administration in Washington.
"I think the Congress is grossly overpaid, their staffs are too large, and the bureaucracy system as a whole has got to eliminate this runaway spending philosophies that continues to deflect spouses that belong to the public," he said.
"INFLATION CAN BE stopped and it must be stopped. This rampant inflation continues to slash your buying power which in turn reduces the quality of life. Economic policies can be implemented that will halt inflation."
Mather, of Overland Park, is a financial analyst and president of Bankers and Investors Co. in Kansas City, M. Before attending law school, Mather was a teacher in Dallas, Texas.
Although the poll shows he is very unlikely to win the seat vacated by the retiring Sen. James Pearson, he remains optimistic and hopeful Ransons will vote for him.
"The citizens of Kansas must not be frustrated by a government that refuses to hear their voice. Their ideas, views, comments and commentaries must be responded to."