GENERAL ELECTION
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U.S. Senate 4
State Treasurer 5
State Representatives 6,7
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State Officees 9,10
The race for governor
Joan Finnev
Finney emphasizes education and a new image for Kansas
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
Joan Finney considers herself a populist.
"I want to be a governor for all the people," she said. "We need someone in the governor's office who can help us deal with people and understand their needs."
Finney said that she was proud of her 16 year record as state treasurer and that it showed she was competent to be governor.
While she was treasurer, she invested state money in new ways that earned the state an additional $1 billion, she said.
She also said that during 'that period she added only seven employees to her staff. That staff has about 50 employees.
Finney said she was a strong supporter of the Margin of Excellence.
"I made that office a dynamic office," she said.
She has said she would finance the third year of the Margin with money from the state's gaming commissions, the latter and part-mutual betting.
That commission was projected to earn the state about $32 million this year.
Most of that money was budgeted to finance the Economic Development Initiative Fund, which supports an array of economic development programs, including about $60 million from the科技大学 Technology Enterprise Corp.
KTEC channels most of its money to state universities for research programs and Centers of Excellence which perform economic development research.
money's critics have said that her plan would stymie economic development in the state, while Finney wrote that it would not fund was being used ineffectively.
Finney has said that she would leave KTEC financing intact but that she would gut the rest of the initialization channel that money into the Margin
"The department of commerce has increased its budget territorally, and yet the state is third from the bottom in growth per per capita income." Finney said. "I don't believe you can take money and place it in the hands of a few for risk capital when we have small businesses that are failing daily. This is not wise management policy."
Finney said that Kansas needed to support its existing businesses before it tried to attract new ones by providing tax relief that would stem the exodus of small businesses from the state.
She said Kansas should concentrate on improving its agricultural base, on revitalizing the oil industry and on promoting tourism.
"The state needs a new image, and we must work to give it that image," she said. "There are things we can do here we work with our own people and ask for their support and their input. I'm very optimistic about the future of the state if we take a new, creative approach."
Finney said education was the cornerstone of economic development.
"You can't do anything without
Joan Finney (D)
★★★★★
Age: 65
Hometown: Topeka
Education: B.A. in economic history from Washburn University.
Background. Timley served on the staff of U.S. Sen. Frank Carlson from 1953 to 1969. She has been state treasurer since 1975.
She said that she would work to improve education in the state through a redistribution of school financing and that she would spend more money in the classroom and less on capital improvements.
She also said that she would strive to make research at the universities
emphasizing education and especially higher education," she said.
See FINNEY, p. 10b
Mike Hayden
Property tax problem needs addressing first, Hayden says
Rv Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
In an election that would give him a second term, Gov. Mike Hayden said his previous years in the office gave him the experience needed to improve the economic and social problems of Kansas.
If Hayden numbered his three main concerns for the state in order of importance, he said they would be education, relief, education and environment.
"In most years, education would be No. 1, but this year we have property tax problems that need to be addressed." Hayden said.
Hadyden said he wanted to generate about $217 million for property tax relief by placing a 1 percent sales tax increase on all items subject to sales
"Our plan would guarantee that all the money would go into property tax relief, dollar per dollar," he said.
Hayden said he would ensure counties of no other tax increase except those on sales taxes from the sales tax increase to local school districts.
He said the state had a $250 million reserve.
Although property tax relief is an economic problem for the state, Hayden said Kansas did not have a budget shortfall.
"there will be some supplemental requirements in SRS," Hayden said, referring to the Department of Social Rehabilitation Services, which provides all social services for the state and have the reserves to abuse."
He said $20 million to $40 million in
reserve money would be used to aid SRS.
"It's mostly related to increases in Medicaid cost, or increases in nursing home care and other medical-related costs," he said.
Education is a primary focus of the state, Hayden said.
"It's important that we have a good elementary and secondary education because that's a foundation for everyone." Haven said.
Hayden said he would push for a bill in the 1991 Legislature that would finance the third year of the Margin Tax, by increasing the state taxose.
The Margin was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Hayden said the state would continue to focus on the Regents suggestion that a 10-cent cigarette tax increase would be the best way to increase the Margin.
If the third year of the Margin is not financed, Hayden said, he will blame the Legislature.
"We'll place it squarely on their shoulders," Hayden said.
Hayden also said he supported qualified admissions for state universities, requiring high school students to attend academic criteria for admission.
Kansas universities have open admissions, which require universities to admit all graduating Kansas high school seniors.
Mike Hayden (R)
Age: 46
Hometown: Atwood
Education: B.A. in wildlife conservation from Kansas State University.
Background: State Representative 1969 - 1983, Speaker of the Kansas House 1983 - 1987, Governor 1987 - present.
"Our standards are too low for high school graduates," said Hayden, adding that Kansas is the only state with some form of qualified admissions.
Hayden, who is pro-choice, said he would not sign any legislation that would prevent it as it dealt with third trimester abortions or parental notification.
See HAYDEN, p. 10b
Independent candidate says media hurt her chances
By David Roach
Most candidates in political cam poigns run against each other.
Kansan staff writer
"The media do not even recognize an independent person as a valid candidate," she said. "They can totally ignore a candidate. What they are actually doing is taking away the voters' choices of candidates. They're making the voters' choices for them."
Independent gubernatorial candidate Christina Campbell-Cline said she also was running against the news media.
She said that she supported freedom of the press but that there should be controls when it came to covering political campaigns.
it's scary knowing that the media have the kind of control where they can elect our officials just by printing or not printing," she said.
Campbell-Cline said she was proud to be the first independent gubernatorial candidate in Kansas, and she also claims credit for being the first woman in Kansas to run for governor.
She said she gave her petition to run for governor to Secretary of State Grave Jones two days before Demo candidate Joan Finney was nominated.
"I am the first woman candidate for governor to be on the ballot, not Finney," she said.
Campbell-Cline said she offered people the only real option in the campaign.
"Everyone I go I hear that people don't want Hayden," she said. "They are voting for Finney because she is the only choice.
"The most unjust thing is that the voters do have a choice. They have a choice for change, and they don't know it."
Campbell-Cline is a certified public accountant in Wichita.
She said she would work to cut the state budget by 10 percent.
"they're saying that my idea of cutting across the board 10 percent is irresponsible," she said. "I know from being a CPA and an auditor that it was hard to do in the state budget simply by cutting out waste, inefficiency, bureaucracy
and paybacks from this political campaign."
“This is the only ozone we're going to get, and we are destroying it,” she said. “We can do it on a state basis, but I think that the governor can also have a great deal of input as far as carbon emissions.” The governors can be much more powerful in the federal management of our country than they have been.”
She said Kansas needed a program to protect the ozone layer.
Campbell-Cline said she also would work to improve and protect the environment.
She said education needed to be restructured to eliminate waste and inefficiency before it received additional financing.
Campbell-Cline said the future of the United States was education.
Campbell-Cline said she decided on impulse to run for governor.
"I did not even know which direction to go to try to be governor on day one when I started," she said. "But I started and have gotten quite a following behind me in just five short months. I feel that a great deal has
been accomplished."
She said that she had conducted an intensive campaign but that lack of coverage by the media had hampered her efforts.
"Any time that Hayden or Finney sneezes they get on the front page," she said. "I guess what I would have to do is jump off of a building in order to get the press' attention. We've stood right next to Hayden in many, many places and they print Hayden, but they don't print me."
She said that both Hayden and Finney had said that she should be included in the debates but that neither the media sponsors nor the League of Women Voters would include her.
Campbell-Cline said she was not impressed with being governor.
A spokesperson for the Kansas League of Women voters said that Campbell-Cline was not included in the Wichita debate because the debate was scheduled in February, before Campbell-Cline became diate, and because Campbell-Cline not appear to be a viable candidate.
company.
She said that by last week she had received less than $1,000 in campaign contributions.
Campbell-Cline said that the major political parties had wrecked themselves and the political process.
to a friend. "She took
She said Finney and Hayden would
have to answer to the people who
financed their campaigns.
financed their campaigns. "I don't have any paybacks," she said.
Campbell-Cline said that after handing out thousands of letters, few people had offered to donate to her campaign.
"Being a CPA in a professional field has much more dignity than the governor could ever have the way he is pictured today," she said. "They need some qualified people, and I have the qualifications."
"They have evidently reached the point where it's all politics and they just don't care about the people anymore," she said.
"Candidates find that people aren't willing to support them with small money, so what they have to do is go to a bribe," she said.
Christina Campbell-Cline
Age: Not available
Hometown: Teenage years in Russell and Gorham.
Education: Attended Fort Hays State University and Wichita State University
Background: A Certified Public Accountant.