Friday, October 27, 1978
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Winn returning to 96th Congress
Bv JOHN THARP
Larry Winn will run again.
The Third District U.S. Congressman isn't worried about the outcome of this year's election, because he is running unopposed. But, he hasn't done so for him, and he fully is running for the next test seat.
The 59-year-old Republican has been representing the Third District in Kansas, where he served as state senator. Franklin and part of Wyandotte counties, since he was first elected in 1966 to the 90th
He won decisive victories in 1974 and 1976, in which he garnered about 70 percent of the points. He was a leader in the league.
"THEY'E GOT some outstanding Democrats, but I can't be accused of not doing my homework and I've gotten very few nasty letters."
Echoing Winn's sentiments about outstanding opposition, is a member of the Democratic Chauvin, who said, "We were doing our campaign planning and we surveyed our qualified candidates in an attempt to find a qualified candidate in the first and third round."
"The fact that every election year I'm very well organized from a political and financial standpoint," Winn said, "has to do with the fact that I have no opposition this election."
"We found a number of qualified candidates, but they were reluctant to run in this situation. Some thought it was the wrong year for them, and others felt they would be unable to mount a campaign and financially to best an incumbent."
Scanlon said that state Democrats decided to concentrate on elections where they had a committed candidate who had a definite chance to win. They chose not even
to put a Democratic name on the ballot oppose Larry Winn. This and the fact that there's no opposition to Winn disturbs some party members.
'THE GENERAL feeling is 'we wish we had a candidate,' and you can be sure we'll succeed.'
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Surveys conducted by both parties, Scanlon said, indicated that the third district seat was safely in the Republican column, and that information added to the decision not to mount a campaign against Democrats will be seeking the office in 1980.
"Some of the people we talked to have expressed interest in the position in the next election, and I asked them if they asked," he said, adding that some of the possibilities had already held public office.
Scanlon wouldn't disclose any names, however.
Joe Carey, who is the Democratic Third District chairman, and also the Wyandotte county chairman, also said there were some possible candidates discussed, but that a lack of funds almost prohibited any Democratic candidate emerging to oppose Winn.
"We tried to recruit some candidates—I'd like them to realize we would have a race on without any financial support. The main problem is we had no finance money, so we had none from the level level," he said.
WHEN ASKED about the quality of possible candidates, and if any of them had enough personal wealth to invest in a Congressional race, Carey said, "There were none with enough money that interest was enough interest to even carry it any further.
"If you had a viable candidate, the funding may be a little easier."
In Douglas county, Dave Berkowitz is Democratic chairman. He was elected in
August, after the state primary elections,
and he said he had nothing to do about the lack of furnishing a candidate by the Democrats.
"I think it's a real shame, and why they won't run I don't know," he said.
What may be a shame to Berkowitz, isn't it Winn, who said he still gets back to the district every other weekend, and would be supporting other Republican candidates in the election. He favors all Kansas Republican Congressional candidates.
WHILE WORKING in Washington, however, Winn he said concentrated more on his legislative duties, and said that inflation and government spending were the two greatest problems facing the nation. He added that Washington's investment take the lead to cut down on spending.
he said he opposed the proposed energy bill because it doesn't encourage enough new sources of energy, something he is concerned and knowledgeable about partly from his membership on the Science and Engineering Committee, which researches energy.
Winn does favor using nuclear energy, he said, along with seven or eight other candidates. "I don't know," Winn said.
BESIDES NUCLEAR energy, he said solar energy is a definite source for the
"We can't close our eyes to a known source, like nuclear energy," he said. "But I would support any legislation for additional safety precautions and for the safety precautions for nuclear energy."
Winn said he voted for the tuition tax elementary and secondary levels of education he thought it would help institutions since "the federal government doesn't have a tax."
Two items Winn is interested in are 100 percent parity and the Tallgrass
Prairie National Park, his own bill. He said he co-sponsored a 100 percent bill for farmers, but the administration killed it before it got into committee, partly because he and the other sponsors "didn't get enough support from the big city members."
He said he plans to introduce the Tallgrass Prairie Park proposal again next month, a plan he would set aside about 18 months from now. He will edge of the Flint Hills for a national park, and Phil Burton, D-Colt, who is chairman of the county's Park Commission that he harbors would be held on the park.
OUTSIDE THE United States, Winn said, he was very interested in "following through on the Camp David accord," and wanted to "do everything we can from a standpoint to work towards all nations involved to keep working towards a Mideast peace settlement."
Winn said at first he supported the proposal to create a Department of Education, because he thought that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was too big to effectively administer educational programs. Now he wants to do something because he is not interested in any new agencies because "they can only get bigger."
He said his staff numbers 11, five less than the 16 he is allowed, and that a survey showed his staff was the smallest and lowest paid of all the Kansas delegations.
Winn is a member of the International Relations Committee, a job he has held.
Winn has been married to his wife, Joan, for 36 years, and they have five children. A 1941 University of Kansas graduate, Winn said he was still very much interested in the University. He swims about three times a week, and plays golf about once a month.
"Not enough golf-playing," he said, "as indicated by my scores."
Larry Winn
Dan Glickman
Glickman rated moderate
RV TOM RAMSTACK
Staff Writer
In the 4th district, which covers the Wichita area, freshman Democratic congressman Dan Glickman will try to hold his job against the flurry of attacks launched by conservative Republican challenger James Litshev.
Besides having the momentum of incumbency in his favor, Glickman shows a similar case.
Glickman, 33, won his congressional seat in 1976 against Garner Shriver, a conservative Republican who had held the job for 16 years. Glickman is now a member of the House Agriculture Committee and the Science and Technology Committee.
While in the 96th Congress, he unsuccessfully opposed a congressional vote to increase the salaries of congressmen. He was also pleased to please over his previous salary to charity.
Before running for Congress, Glickman was elected to the Wichita School Board in 1973 and in 1975 became the Board's youngest president.
HE GRADETED from the University of Michigan in 1966 with a degree in history and in 1989 received his law degree from the University of Chicago. He is married and has two children.
Gickman calls himself a moderate, but is called a liberal by members of the Litsey camp. Historically, a liberal is disliked by voters in the 4th District.
According to the Americans for Democratic Action, a group which rates the liberalism of congressmen on a scale of one to one hundred, Glickman is ranked at 65.
"In some ways I'm liberal, but in other
4th District
James Litsey
ways I'm conservative." Glickman says, "For instance on free speech issues I'm very liberal. But as far as spending and taxation I'm a conservative."
As an example of his liberal attitude toward free speech, Glickman said he opposed restrictions against a Nazi march in a campaign of Skoke III., even though he is Jewish.
GLICKMAN HAS also co-sponsored a bill to protect newsroom files against unwarranted searches by police during criminal investigations.
Glickman said the fact that he could be classified as neither conservative nor liberal showed he could think independently about issues.
However, Liteky has said that Glickman votes erratically, guided not by free thought, but by a desire to save face with the voters.
The Kemp-Roth bill, which was rejected by the Senate Oct. 6, would cut federal taxes on the highest-income households.
As an example, Lifesey点 out that in 1976 Glickman was a co-sponsor of the Kemp-Roth Tax Reduction Act, but later voted against the bill.
"Our number one priority as far as
federal spending is concerned to reduce the federal deficit," Glickman said. "The Kemp-Roth bill would cause massive inflation by increasing the federal deficit $100 billion. When I first co-sponsored the bill, I wasn't the problem that it is today."
GlickMAN ALSO said, "It would be wonderful if you could be consistent 100 percent of the time. But sometimes you change your mind on issues."
Instead of the Kemp-Roth Bill, Gickman favors the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, which was approved by voters.
Glickman said the Humprey-Hawkins bill was a statement of goals which would help fight inflation by achieving full employment, enterprise, without federal subsidies.
Another Litzwe charge that Glickman has had to defend himself against is that by ignoring Glickman's warnings in 1976 that Titan Lake was indestructible. The Glickman was indirectly responsible for a fuel leak at a Rock Township missile Aug. 24 of this year that left two young airmen dead. The Rock Township missile was dead of 18 Titan II shots that surround Wichita.
Glickman acknowledged that Lisey had spoken to him about the dangers at the silos. But Glickman said Lisey had presented him with high technical data two weeks before the general election in which Glickman was first elected to Congress.
GLICKMAN SAID that he told Litshey to return after the election when Glickman could devote more attention to Litshey's job. Litshey never returned to speak to Glickman.
"Then 19 months later I heard that the Air Force and I had caused the crisis to occur,"
An issue on which Glickman could be considered liberal is national defense. He has voted against both the neutron bomb and the B-1 Bomber.
Glickman said the U.S. needs to take a role of "responsible firmness" with the Russians, but that defense measures should not be extreme.
"I think the neutron bomb symbolizes expansion into a form of nuclear warfare that substantially expands the arms race," he said. "I think the defense budget needs to be just like the Welfare program. There are sacred cows when it comes to budgeting."
Litsey representing new wave of conservatism
Jim Lisey, Republican candidate for Congress in the 4th District, and his 24-year-old wife Linda live in the two back rooms of their upper-middle class home in Wichita. The rest of the house serves as Lisey's campaign headquarters.
Lifesey, 31, says that he represents a new wave of conservative American thought, while his opponent, Democratic incumbent John Kasich, is out of step with voters in his home district.
The Litsey-Glickman battle is one of about 40 congressional races across the country that the Republican National Committee targeted for special attention this year.
If Litsay wins the 4th District congressional race, it will be his first public office. He took a leave of absence from his job as Director of Customer Relations for Dold Foods Inc. to enter the campaign for Congress.
LITSEY graduated from Baylor University, Waco, Texas in 1969 with a commission in the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita where he was commander of a CBM Nuclear Missile complex and crew.
After leaving the Air Force, Lisey became a construction worker. He said he appreciated the experience because it helped him learn the meaning of hard manual labor and gave him an understanding of the blue-collar worker.
Litekey later took a job with Dildo Foods. He advanced rapidly to become Director of
Liskey's only political experience is with the campaigns of other conservative Republican candidates. He was a member of Ronald Reagan's staff when Reagan was trying to win the nomination for president at the 1976 Republican National Convention.
Likely was also a campaign worker in Bob Sisneray's 1947 rejection campaign for U.S. Senator.
THE INFLUENCE of both Reagan and Dole is evident in Liberty's campaign. In devising campaign strategies, Liberty has used the word "Republican" to warn Warner, former Republican party leader in Oklahoma who was regional director for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign in 1976. Likewise that he has also received support from Dole on how to wage his campaign.
The most evident campaign tactic apparently learned from Reagan and Dole is Lisey's almost constant attack on his opponent.
For example, Litshey has accused Glickman of abusing his congressional privilege of free mail service for official business, called the frank, to send self-serving campaign literature. "Bob Dole knew me," Keep hammering him on this."Litshey
Glickman denies abuse of the frank and said such abuse would be a federal offense.
During a Sept. 7 press conference that Litsley called to discuss the missile fuel leak, John Gale, an Air Force sergeant, was arrested and questioned by a carrying tape recorder and notebook.
Glickman said that Litsey had explained the dangers at the missile complex badly and had failed to return to speak further with Glickman about the dangers.
Likey said that two years ago he appo-
liked Glickman and warned him about
the kind of safety hazard at the misleaf
of his own mistakes, as well as the
airmen. He said that he asked Glickman to
use his power as a congressman to remedy
the dangers, but that Glickman had ignored
LITSEY CONTINUED to make a campaign issue of the missile accident that has left many safely unprotected.
equipment and procedures. He called for a congressional investigation of the incident
IN PERHAPS the most unusual issue of the Liteye-Glickman race, Litesey has said Glickman should be a fuel leak accident at a Titan II ICBM Missile Complex near Wichita Aug. 24. The accident left two young men in serious danger and the evacuation of nearby Rock Township.
A Litey staff worker became suspicious when he did not recognize Gale as a regular press member. He asked Gale whether he represented the Air Force. Gale replied that he was not with the Air Force—a lie that he had repeatedly said "was a judgmental error on his part."
When Litzey discovered that Gale had lied, he accused the Air Force of spying and again called for a congressional investigation.
SEVERAL PEOPLE, including Glickman, said that Lt. Tatleys was using the accident at the missile so as a self-serving campaign issue and that the tactic was costing Mr. Tatleys $30 million.
Jeannette Nichols, a free-lance journalist from Rock Township, said, "It kills of biew
Lisey's conservative thought in economic matters is evident by his support of less government spending.
Litsey said he would vote for the Kemp-Roth Tax Reduction Bill, which would reduce taxes 33 percent during the next three years. He said the bill would cut back spending and reduce inflation. The Kemp-Roth Bill was defeated in the Senate Oct. 6.
Although he favors less government spending in most areas, Litsey said there needs to be more money spent for defense. He said the U.S. needs to build a stronger defense to counter the growing Russian threat of armed aggression.
Litsey has supported both the B-1 Bomber and the neutron bomb. Glickman has voted
Other conservative measures Liesley said he would support are a lower minimum wage for school-age workers and a rollback in Social Security taxes.