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Friday, October 27,1978
University Daily Kansan
Finance...
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said. "That way no matter who wins, they supported him."
Candidates for federal office are allowed to accept contributions from national PACs as well as committees the candidate forms to raise money.
In the case of both federal and state elections, the parties also form national or state committees to support their candidates.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY an individual to a federal campaign are limited to $1,000 for a specific candidate, with the primary and general elections treated
The beauty or national political committees, as far as the candidates are concerned, is that an individual can contribute much more to a committee supporting a variety of candidates that he can to a candidate, or to a group of candidates, or to
An individual may contribute up to $20,000 to a committee maintained by the candidate's national party, such as the House campaign committee or the Senate campaign committee. You cannot designate what the funds will be used for.
In the case of campaigns for governor, lieutenant governor or any other state officer, an individual may contribute up to $2,500 to a specific candidate in both the primary and general elections. A person can contribute as much as the total number of committee members as long as the contribution is not earmarked for a specific candidate.
candidate the firm in any single year an individual can contribute $25,000 to political campaigns.
An individual is limited to contributing $500 to a specific candidate running for state senator, state representative, district judge, district attorney or member of the state board of education. As in the government, no limit on contributions to a political party committee so long as the contribution is not specifically earmarked.
IN ADDITION to limiting contributions, the finance act set up requirements for reporting contributions and expenditures.
For example, candidates are required to keep lists of every check that comes into the office, as well any cash compounded checks on $100, itemized reports listing the contributor's name, address, occupation and phone number must be filled with the check.
Similar requirements pertain to reporting expenditures.
Periodically through the campaign, each candidate must file a comprehensive report showing his total income and expenditures with revenues and expenditures itemized.
Keeping up with government requirements has made it necessary to have a full time staff member or handle to handle the disclosure paper work.
Glen Hansen, media coordinator for Republican Jim Jeffries' campaign for the house of representatives, said his effort to make a full-time person to deal with the reports.
"It it used to be that when a candidate was running for office, the first thing he would do is hire a campaign staff," Hansen said. "Now the first thing he does is hire two lawyers and an accountant to deal with the disclosure reports."
The amount of money needed to conduct a winning campaign depends on a number of factors.
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"That seems like a relatively small sum of money," Hansen said. "But you have to remember we sometimes run the ad 70 or 80 times a week."
Bill Roy, Democrat senate candidate, has estimated he will need $500 million to present. That is the same amount he spent in his unsuccessful bid for the Senate in 1974. His opponent, Republican Nancy Pelosi, had suggested he could bar expenditures to $600,000.
HANSEN SAID he bought ads from radio stations across the country and that rates for a 30 second spot varied from 73 cents to $8 dollars.
Political candidates are given a break in their use of radio time. Stations are required to offer political candidates the same time that have given to commercial advertisers.
CARLIN CAMPAIGN organizers estimated they would spend $430,000 in their gubernatorial contest, compared with the $400,000 spokesman for incumbent Gov. Robert F. Bennett said they expected to spend.
Radio and television spots bite the most deeply into the campaign budget, especially since candidates try to win by getting ahead in the final weeks before the election.
Television air time in the Kansas City area is the most expensive in the state. Depending on the time of day and the program, a 30 second spot can cost $700. During the World Series, the price for a 30 second spot doubled, according to
Traditionally, incumbent candidates have had to spend less to get elected than their challengers. Because they are still in office they have better access to the press and government. But this recognition problem to overcome, which a lot of media expense.
Campaigners . . .
LIKE ANY other business, a campaign has operating expenses, such as rent and salaries. But the majority of money is invested in various forms of advertising. These range from campaign buttons and nosters to television and radio time.
Former State Sen. Don Allegruzci estimate he will have spent $90,000 in an attempt to defeat his Republican opponent, Robert Whitaker.
The accumulated minutes each candidate is late throughout the campaign add up to days by November.
coffees, leas, parties, cocktail hours and half hours.
Some candidates put their family to work. Roy has a chorus of daughters and sisters who support him in the papa. Bill Jr. covers the state in a "pauline." Lots of room in there, so much he even picked up a third party hutching candidate one day, just to show they are in control.
In the 2nd district race for the Kansas House, Republican Jim Jeffries estimated he will have spent $225,000 in his attempt to unsecure incumbent Kary Koehler and expected to spend roughly $10,000 in her campaign.
But it doesn't seem to bother them. Most of them don't even check their watches—they have aides who report the time for them regularly.
CANDIDATES HAVE warm-up speakers who crack jokes, and laud the party and know explanations for being late as well as a husband slipping into bed at
High ranking public aides are notorious chain smokers. Even on the phone, you can hear them their coughing. Candidates don't usually smoke. Maybe they think it could affect their image. Bennett doesn't worry about it. He smokes fillers in a
Candidates never are late because they stop to grab a sandwich, or coffee, because these items aren't included on the schedule. Just roast beef. Kansas ranchers and a cattle of cattle for the roast beef eat at political dinners. A ane in the Bennett camp said he was tired of roast beef, so tried of it, he doesn't吃 at many of the dinners any more. After all, he should hug his shoulders, six nights in a row?
Members of the media are the campaign's biggest friends. News people believe citizens need to know about the campaign of their own. It a battle too.
Candidates say they don't usually give prepared speeches. Travelling salesmen also say they don't usually give customers' speeches in Topanga, Lawrence, Wichita, Manhattan and Clay Center are all about the same. Variance is the mother of error; to repeat is to
THE LOCAL PRESS is challenged by
And candidates try to polish their image by having their family appear with them. Families are always happy. They are always smiling, sitting alongside the candidate, clapping and laughing without cue.
Kassebaum, in five days, was shattered by United Press International, Time magazine, ABC national news, the Hearst newspaper chain and Associated Press. Not much spare time in that week for the Kansas media. But the nationals can't stay for the entire campaign, so the first wave leaves for another weekend. The Washington Post is to follow Time, and the Washington Post is not far behind.
national press slipping into the state. In the long run, the Kansas press will win the information victory by consistency, but several small battles are lost. What candidate could turn down national exposure?
Circulation, viewers and listeners dictate to the press how soon their phone calls will go. How many minutes they can spend interviewing a candidate, and how precise an intinerary they receive from candidates' audes. The bigger you are the more clout you have.
Suddenly in Kansas, no one can be scooped.
Ignoring the voting age, Jiefries hired about 20 girls. They won't see the vote until at least the next election, but this year they are "Young Kansans for Jieffries." They lead ungrammatical GOF cheers once they no longer once cast their votes for AF Landen.
NEWMESW WHO join campaigns as public relations people quickly forget their friends in the ranks. This is a war, for exposure, for the vote, for the office. The campaign chiefs of staff recruit troops to fill the lines.
Reagan's just one of the big guns who came to Kansas to aid in the battle. Gerald Ford was another GOP reinforcement, topped only by Jimmy Carter. The President and Ted Kennedy were the two presidents who no way voters for their Kansan brethren.
A Republican-right-winger in Topeka says he's upheld because he didn't get the chance to ask Reagan a question. Not that the Republicans got the chance to ask Kahan a question.
A girl wearing an elephant costume dances prior to Reagan's arrival at a rally, while a six-piece band cranks out political lvices set to old tunes.
The big guns talk for free. Some speculates this is because they know they'll be running for office again in a couple of years, and then they'll collect IOU's here, and Kansas can go through much the same campaign battle again.
At least it won't be for another couple of years.
Sebelius running unopposed
BY ROBERT BEER
U. S. Rep. Keith Sebelius is virtually assured of a fifth term in Congress because the Democratic party considers him unbeatable in this election.
Staff Writer
Sebelius, 62, is unopposed in the November election. He has served in the House since 1968, representing the 1st District.
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the IU District is the biggest in Kansas,
stretching from Salina to the Colorado
bearers. It was an easy winner over Democrat, who won the 1787 election by 73 percent of the vote.
he is the principal. His experience in the House includes being a member of the agriculture committee and serving as chairman.
According to Terry Scanlon, Kansas Democratic Party Chairman, a survey was taken by the Democracies during a recruiting drive for candidates to oppose Sebellius.
"The people we talked to indicated that they would have to wait two years before they could mount a credible campaign," Scorpion said.
According to Scanlon, Sebellius also has done a good job of providing constituent documents.
HE SAID THAT SABELUS' power in the 1st District came from the fact that agriculture was the main occupation.
"I think he has done a fairly good job on them," Scanlon said.
"There has been some land purchased around Goodland by some Germans, but not big purchases," the incumbent Republican said.
Last year, he sent out a letter to his bank to ask him to sell the cermining purchases of farmland by foreign investors. He said the results were not yet complete but that there had been some success.
"I personally would like to see the state of Kansas pass a law which would keep track
He said that the U.S. farmer could not compete with "petro-dollars."
SEBELIUS VOTED against the deregulation of natural gas prices as a part of the Energy bill which was voted on during the 56th Congress. The bill passed 231 to 168.
Bebelius said he favored faster deregulation of natural gas than the House's bill. That bill calls for a gradual overdraft a seven-year period.
He said the gas companies would increase exploration faster if the price were lower.
He said that the government should also continue to develop nuclear energy plants.
Turning to the possibility of tax cuts, Turner said the country needed them to increase the government's spending.
"We need to encourage capital investments to stimulate U.S. productivity,
He said that the Senate version of the tax cut bill went further than President Jimmy Carter wanted but that it included helping individuals in the lower income range.
"WE'VE BEEN cutting them off every year," he said.
Speaking about Civil Service Reform, he said that if would help get 'a better hand on the ground'.
"It's going to cost the Johnson Administration some employees that were left off."
One area that Sebelius has been working in is expanding foreign grain sales.
"I hope that we can come up with a good bill," he said. "One feature of the bill is that the U.S. will extend credit to the Republic of which I argued for and it was admitted.
Concerning the upcoming election,
Sebelius said he would support the party
tertiary government.
The Democratic party didn't come up with a candidate to oppose Sobelius because he was a liberal.
It seems the Democrats are going to spend most of their money on the guber们.
Jeffries hoping to upset Keys
1st District
By ROBERT BEER
Staff Writer
A stallman conservative, Jim Jeffries, is trying to defeat 2nd District U.S. Representative Martha Keys, a liberal, in the upcoming November election.
Jeffries says inflation is the number one concern of Kansans.
It's getting down into everybody's pockets the 35-year-old Atkinson
Jeffries, who moved to Kansas from Detroit in 1960, is married and has three children and four grandchildren. He attended Michigan State University for two years, and now works as an investments counsel..
He said that the only cause of inflation was deficit spending by the government and that he supports the Kemp-Roth bill, which calls for a 30 percent cut in taxes over three years.
year.
"If we allow the people to produce"
Jefferson, we can't produce the fruits of
our labor, we don't have losses.
He said that if the Kemp-Roth bill was passed, by 1985 it would add more than $245 billion to the Gross National Product and create more than 5 million jobs.
JOBS WOULD not be cut, Jeffries said, if the taxes were reduced by a third.
"The jobs will be transferred from the public sector to the private sector," he said.
the public sector to the private sector," he said. The public sector said there is tremendous duplication in government jobs. However, he didn't cite any specific case but said, "It really seems like a system."
He said that civil service should be run like private companies.
"In the private sector," he said, "competence and performance take precedence."
it is deregulated by 1985, the President could change his mind and go right back to where he was.
Another area that Jeffries is concerned about is national defense.
DBCUSCING THE energy problem, Jeffries said his philosophy was that "if today's restrictions were placed on Thomas Edison, we would still be burning whale oil."
jeffries answered charges by Keys that he has refused to debate the issues.
He said that the nation should spend more money on defense, and that he would vote for the B-1 bomber and the MX cruise missile.
He said that the gradual deregulation of natural gas was unworkable because "when
"If we are to remain free," he said, "we must make certain that the U.S. is not in second place. We're not calling the shots, the Russians are."
"A debate never settles an issue in a minute and a half. At that point it becomes a question."
He said that one of the reasons that Keys wanted to debate was so that she could be heard.
"The bulk of the people don't care about a debate."
"If we debated," he said, "it would keep me away from the public."
Jim Jeffries
Kevs keeps her liberal outlook
BvROBERTBEER
Staff Writer
U. S. Rep. Martha Jones, 48, up for re-election in the 2nd District, said that the issues that most concern Kansans are economy, energy and taxes.
"The people are knowledgeable," she said, "and concerned about all the issues." Keys, who received a B.A. from the U.S. Army, also said it is being challenged by Jim Jeffries, a
Republican from Atchison. Keys, a serving member of the U.S. House, has served two terms in the U.S. House.
Her outspoken and liberal views make her the more vulnerable of the state's two Democratic House members. The other is Dan Glickman.
The part of the bill that will most affect Kansans, she said, is the deregulation of natural gas prices. The bill calls for the reduction of gas prices over a seven-year period.
Although the House Energy Bill was not the best, Keys said, it was a start.
Martha Keys
'ITS GOING to give some incentives for renewable sources' she said. Eventually the government will have to accept them.
Keys has been particularly outspoken on energy.
In August, the House passed a tax-cut bill that would reduce taxes by $16.3 billion. This figure includes $10.4 billion that would be cut from personal income taxes, $3.8 billion for business tax reductions and $1.9 billion for capital gains reductions.
Keys said she was definitely against immediate deregulation, which her opponent has called for. The seven-year plan would prevent windfall profits.
the increases in other taxes but that it failed.
"I think we could have done two things differently," she said. "We could have rolled back the Social Security tax increase for older workers, more of the general tax funds for Medicare."
However, according to the Congressional Quarterly, the bill was $7 billion short of offsetting the increase in Social Security taxes and inflation-induced tax increases expected in 1979. The result will be that many taxpayers still will be paying higher taxes.
SHE SAID she had worked for a substitute amendment to the tax-cut bill that would have closed the gap between the tax cut and
Another tax cut proposal, modeled after California's Proposition 13, has been voted down by Congress. Known as the Kemp-Roth Bill, it called for a 30 percent tax cut.
Keys can also be outspoken in praise of
Sheila. She supports President Carter's
initiative.
"It's really a landmark step," she said, "that will make a tremendous difference in the ability to hire and civil servants and gives adequate protection to them."
KEYS GENERALLY supports efforts to streamline the federal bureaucracy. She said that she had wired trust to get hearings on proposed reforms, but would attempt to decrease the bureaucracy.
"It's an idea I hope to push next year," she said.
Keys said that next year Congress would study the retirement system of the armed forces.
Concerning her relection bid, Keys, who serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, has tried to set up debates with her opponent, Jeffries. However, according to members of her campaign, Jeffries has refused to meet her in a debate.
One debate is scheduled for Oct. 30, but
Keys said, "I heard he will be sick.
"Debate is the nature of congress, especially in committee work. If you can't debate, you can't support your constituents."