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Friday, October 27, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Amison aiming to halt waste of federal funds
BY MARY ERNST Staff Reporter
William Amison, Republican candidate for the 4th state legislative seat, says that his opponent, incumbent Mike Glover, has continued to win that seat on only one issue—marijuana decriminalization.
Amison, 30, said that he agrees with Glover's opinion on marijuana decriminalization, and has even voted Glover in his previous victories in the disi
But Amison said that his constituents need a representative who will take strong stands on several issues.
"I'm not a professional politician," "Amiss said, 'I'll be doing insurance work most of my life, but I feel that it is necessary to get to a chance to mow my opinions."
Amison, an insurance salesman specializing in group health plans, said that for many years he has had strong feelings about his job but has never done anything about them.
BUT WHEN THE Douglas County Republican Committee asked Amison in May if he would like to run for the 44th District seat he initially balked at the idea because of his lack of experience in politics.
After reconsidering, Amison decided to run, but gets the chance to tell people what he would like to see done in his area of special interest—education.
Amison, who received his master's degree in education administration from the University of Kansas in 1972 and later became a professor at that federally-funded educational pre-
grams should be scrutinized more closely before the funds are accepted.
"Too many federal funds are being used to establish programs and then the funds are withdrawn," he said. "What is the advantage of having these new programs if the funds are going to be withdrawn?"
Amison said he thought federal programs at all levels of education should be looked at more closely.
One issue that Ammon said he would look at more closely is an assurance of federal minimum wage for student workers at KU.
"Some of the things we will have to work out with the Kansas Board of Regentia," Amison said. "But college students are right to the federal minimum wage."
Amiss also voiced a special interest in providing for the elderly. People should be educated on the problems that face them, and prepared for that time themselves, he said.
"IM NOT SAYING that we have to be miserly," he said. "I'm saying that we should be thinking about making sure that we have money for ourselves later."
"If we need funding, great. But we can cut down on funding by planning ahead now."
Amison said he also wants to look at rising health costs and at legislation that could provide alternatives to our present system.
"It's not the insurance companies that are causing rising health costs—it's the hospitals with their duplication of services and other costly problems," he said.
"One man may not be able to do much, but I think I'll be a credible voice for the people of the 4th."
Mike Glover, Democratic incumbent in the 44th State Legislative District, says that his six years in the state House of Representatives will be spent voting for him, but voters in his district should reelect him.
By MARY ERNST
Staff Reporter
Glover cites political experience
Glover, 30, says that his influence is increasing because he has put in more initiatives.
"My effectiveness will be increased," he says. "Having been successful before, I'll not have as hard a time getting legislation through."
Glover says that if he is relected the rest of the Legislature will expect him to introduce another supplementary allocation for college students, a minimum wage for college students.
Because Glover wrote a letter that resulted in an additional $150,000 for student salaries, he will be expected to do the same thing again, he says, possibly with the same purpose.
"THE $150,000 will not cover the rise of the minimum wage to $2.90 in January." Glover says, "but I hope to preface a bill for another supplemental allocation in November so that it will be introduced on the first day that the legislature reconvenes.
"Hopefully, we can get something through before the students get back to school."
Glover is the legislator who accepted a bill from a group of women athletes who ran in a relay from KU to Topeka last spring to introduce the bill. He says he actively supports increased funding for women's athletics.
Glover also says that his position on the House Ways and Means Committee adds to his ability to get things done, especially in an area such as funding for women's health.
"ALTHOUGH THE Republican-controlled Senate completely cut additional funding," he says, "I helped get half of what they cut restored in the House."
To get women's athletics programs off the ground, he saves, they have to get funding.
"If you put a new person in Topeka that informs us not going to be that supportive," she said.
Glover says that his ability to get things done is another reason that he should be reelected. He says he is responsible for improvements at KU, such as the $8 million renovation of Watson Library and the addition at Mahlon Hall and Robinson Gymnasium.
At a time when state legislators are worried about declining enrollment at universities across the country, there is a need for additional funding for KU should be cut back too.
"WITH THIS prospect of declining enrollment," he says, "people will want
someone in Topeka who will protect what many consider to be the flagship of the Kansas Board of Regents schools, KU, from loss of revenue." Many legislators in recent years had felt a need to cut back on spending. Glover says.
"This Proposition 13 attitude of cut, cut,
cut no matter what is not good for cut,
the cut is good."
Glover says that the state legislature spent the greatest amount of state dollars on two areas—higher education and welfare programs.
In the area of social legislation, Glover says, he feels fortunate that in six states he has been able to transversal social legislation past the House and at the same time maintain a high level
One of those social issues is decriminalization of marijuana, which Glover has actively supported, but which the court has passed both houses of the legislature.
"FOUR YEARS after I introduced decriminalization," Glover says, "it passed the House but it never passed the Republican-controlled Senate.
voy. Bennett had said that he didn't want it on his desk and there were enough books to fill it.
Glover has also been a strong supporter of liquor-by-the-drink legislation in Kansas. And he says that the legislature took a significant turn in its history when it passed the liquor legislation that will go before the voters in November.
"The liquor issue has demonstrated my ability to get things done in Topeka and back here," he says. "I've never really been a friend of the middle class, but I am telling me that that folks are very pleased with the liquor-by-the-drink legislation."
THE ECONOMIC development of Kansas would be improved by the bill, Glover says, because Kansas would no longer have an image of being a "Carry Nation" state.
Glover says that in other areas of social regulation he thinks that his record shows a problem.
"If you look at my record in areas such as senior citizen benefits, juveniles, day care, labor and workman's compensation, you'll recognize the 'progressive' and goal-oriented," he says.
Glover says that about 45 percent of his constituency are KU students and more than 50 percent of his constituency is in some way connected with the University.
"There's no doubt that the support of students had helped elect me for my first three terms." Glover said. "But I have passed legislation that is important to students."
Mike Glover
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