University Dally Kansan
Friday, October 27, 1978
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Kassebaum, Roy file complaints questioning campaign practices
By the Associated Press
the campaign staff of Kansas senatorial opponents Nancy Kassabaean and Bill Roy both said yesterday they had filed complaints with federal groups.
Kassebaum's campaign director, David Bushong, said he had forwarded a complaint to the campaign's attorney in Washington, alleging that Roy's campaign had violated the federal Election Campaign Method to obtain funds for Roy's campaign.
Bushong said the complaint would be checked by the lawyer, then filed with the county.
PAUL, PENDERGAST, Roy's campaign manager, made a public copy of a letter he sent to the Fair Campaign Practices Committee in Washington alleging the Kassebaum campaign had engaged in "gross distortions, false statements and libelous and libelous accusations against Bill Roy," his record and his supporters."
Pendergast asked for an immediate investigation by the committee, which can look into such charges and issue a report after taking testimony.
Both camps denied the allegations of the other.
PENDERGAST called the Kassebaum complaint "a meaningless political move" and said that if the Republican senatorial nominee's staff would only read the law they knew, he would not be "completely legal and proper and authorized by federal election laws."
In his letter, Pendergast described the charge made by the Kassbaum campaign
The charge made by Kassebaum's staff
said it was illegal to have supporters sign bank loan notes to guarantee the payment of the notes after the election. The charge also said it was illegal to have Robert L. Brock, co-chairman of the Roy campaign, co-sign the notes.
EMERSON K. LYNN, Kassebaum's press representative, said of the Pendergast complaint, "We expected this sort of over-reaction since we set in motion today our complaint to the FEC of possible violations of the law."
Lynn said information contained in Kassabea's political advertising about Roy's record, "represents the truth, that he has been an anthemosa so far in the Rov campaign.
"We are hardly concerned, since truth is the best defense."
BUSHONG SAID of the controversy over the Roy campaign financing plan:
"The Roy campaign has refused to show proof that the banking scheme is legal and by so doing they are denying Kansan's right to know what the truth really is.
"We not only believe there is a possible violation of the campaign financing law, we are sure the scheme violates the spirit of the law."
"THE KASSEBAUM campaign has become totally irresponsible in its desperate reaction to her slippage in the polls. They have made many statements and engaged in gross distortion.
Pendergast, in forwarding his complaint to Washington, said:
"We will not permit such false statements to go unchallenged. The people of Kansas
"The most generous thing that can be said for Nancy Kassbaum is that she has lost
control of her own campaign. It has been
received from many same people who ran the
1947 Dole campaign.
In his complaint, Pendergast challenged a statement by the Kassebaum campaign that
she had not accepted more than $1,000 from any contributor. He also challenged her representations of Roy's positions on party policy and his spending and national health insurance.
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