THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA; KS 66612
VOL.101.NO.47
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1990
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Hayden outspends Finney, 5-1
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
The governor's race may be close in the polls, but where money is concerned, there is no contest.
Campaign finance disclosures filed by candidates yesterday show that Republican Gov. Mike Hayden has outspent his Democratic opponent, Joan Finney more than 6 to 1. His second-place Finney's by more than 3 to 1.
Hayden's contributions averaged about $250 from each contributor. Finney's average was about $140 from each contributor.
The disclosures showed that Hayden had reaped almost $1.2 million from 4,600 contributors, while Finney had reaped almost $40,000 from 2,700 contributors.
The statements showed that Finney had spent $275,000, while Hayden had spent it $1.3 million.
Hayden had about $250,000 left in his coffers after the primary. Finney had about $4,500.
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"We didn't really place that much of a priority on fund-raising," Schnecher said. "I loan wanted to go more of her time to campaign."
Both candidates have about $100,000 left.
He said that they had enough money to finish the campaign and that they had been frugal in their media spending.
Mark Schmeller, a Finney spokes person, said her campaign was typical Finney strategy.
'We've been successful so far,' he
said. "There's no sense in getting in spending war with Hayden, because he's outspending us by about 6 to 1. We have enough for the last week."
Burdett Loomis, professor of political science, said Finney's approach might be successful.
"She's running a very different kind of campaign," he said. "She didn't spend a lot of money in the primary. She has not spent a lot of money now, and she's still even in the polls. You can't argue with that."
However, Loomis said that Finney's meager budget could hurt her campaign.
"The question is: Can she give people a reason to vote for her?" said, "You have to get your message right." You can tell her, "Have any money, how do you do it?"
Frank Ybarra, Hayden's press secretary, said Hayden's campaign was forced to spend large amounts of money on advertising because Finney was unwilling to discuss the issues.
Ybarra said the amount of money Hayden had raised emphasized his grassroots support.
"We believe that fund-raising and the amount of money a campaign can raise is a direct reflection of its
See FINANCE, p. 10
Campaign money
Havden
Expenditures $1,295,000
Contributions $1,155,000
Number 4,600
Finney___
Contributions $385,000
Expenditures $275,000
Number 2,700 KANSAI
Graves says explanation misleading
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
Secretary of State Bill Gravys yesterday released a statement criticizing an explanatory note on a proposed constitutional amendment that could affect all Kansas schools and universities.
The amendment will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot.
The amendment would remove references to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents from the Kansas constitution and place all educational concerns under the jurisdiction of the Legislature.
John Reinhart, Graves' press secretary, said the explanatory note was misleading.
"It just does not accurately portray what the amendment's going to do," he said.
The explanatory note was drafted by the Legislature, which has a vested interest in the amendment, Reinhart said.
Graves' statement did not endure or oppose the amendment itself, but it criticized that issue being was being publicly for the third time in 25 years.
Similar amendments were rejected by voters in 1966 and 1986.
Putting an amendment on the bailout costs about $350,000, Reinhart said.
"There was no effort to draft a statement that was biased in favor of the amendment so far as I know," he said.
State Sen. Mike Johnston, R-Parsons, a supporter of the amendment, said that he had not seen the explanatory note but that there was no reason the committee that framed it should have been biased.
The note was drafted three years ago by the Legislative Educational Planning Commission when the amendment was written, Johnston said.
"I guess I'd wonder where Bill Graves has been for three years," Johnston said.
Reinhart said Graves waited to talk about the problem because he wanted to ensure that voters would remember it.
But it has drawn criticism from the Board of Regents, the State Board of Education and educators who say they want to keep the state's schools isolated from politics.
supporters of the amendment have said it not designed to change the way Kansas' schools and universities are administered.
Wood sent letters to all county clerks in Kansas last week urging them to explain the amendment to their constituents.
Now educators and others are criticizing the explanatory note on the ballot for being biased toward the amendment.
"I think it casts the amendment in a considerably more favorable light than is appropriate," said George Frederickson, KU Edwin O. Stene distinguished professor of public administration.
"We didn't really feel that it was in the spirit of fair play," she said. "It doesn't really explain what it's doing, but it explains explanatory statement should explain."
Barbara Wood, president of the Kansas County Clerk's Association, said the explanatory note was a sales pitch
The explanatory note probably was designed by legislative staff members who were favorably inclined toward the amendment, he said.
Wax Job
Jim Cary, 1990 KU graduate and Lawrence resident, waxes his truck at a parking lot on the west side of Memorial Stadium. Cary said he waxed his car twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring.
Brian T. SchoeniKANSAN
He said he usually waxed his car at Clinton Lake, but it was too windy and dusty to do so yesterday. He said that the parking lot was a "mighty fine place to be."
Leaders criticize Finney's tax plan
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Republican legislative leaders made it clear yesterday that they have decided State Treasurer Joan Fennie's property tax relief plan will not be enacted, even if she is elected governor.
Twenty-nine GOP legislators, including 12 members of the two standing committees that consider tax proposals, declared their opposition to Finney's plan. Finney is the Democratic nominee for governor.
The group included Senate President Bud Burke of Leawood, Senate Majority Leader Fred Kerr of Pratt, House Majority Leader Robert H. Miller of Wellington and Speaker Pro Tom Dale Spraggue of McPherson
Finney has proposed raising $460 million for property tax relief by imposing a 1 percent tax on some items now exempt from the state's 4.25 percent sales tax Republican Gov. Mike Hayden has proposed reducing the sales tax 1 percent to raise $127 million for property tax relief
"It is so tempting to come up with a simple plan, as candidate Finney has done." Kerr said. "You see that the plan is not realistic."
State Democratic Chairperson Perrish criticized Hayden's tax reimer proposal. He said voters were angry with Hayden because he had been unable to work with the Legislature enough to provide property tax relief
"What we need is a new governor," Parrish said. "What people are crying for is new leadership."
Finney has not released a list of items she proposes to tax, saying instead that she will work with the Legislature.
Kerr, Roe and Thiessen said her plan was unworkable. Roe said the Legislature might raise $15 million or $20 million if it considered eliminating sales tax exemptions. Attempts to raise money by taxing items now exempt from the sales tax have failed in the past.
"It's smoke and mirrors to say you can come up with $400 million or $500 million," he said.
Warehouse manager testifies in Grissom trial
By Eric Gorski
Faught described a man who was with the
Kansan projects writer
OLATHE — Richard Grissom Jr. may have accompanied Theresa Brown to a Raytown, Mo., warehouse where she rented a storage area in Christine Rusch's name the day the women disappeared, according to testimony yesterday in the Grissom murder trial.
When Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison showed Faught a photograph of Brown, however, she identified the woman pictured as someone who looked very much like the person who signed the rental agreement.
Jacqueline Faught, former manager of the MiniWarehouse of Raytown, testified that June 26, 1989, she rented a 14-foot by 30-foot unit on behalf of signed Sushi's name to a rental agreement.
Faught testified that the man and woman came to the storage area's office during the morning. According to previous testimony, $2,400 was withdrawn between 7 and 8 a.m. that day from Rusch's money market account by a woman fitting Rusch's description. Later that afternoon, an automatic teller machine camera snapped a picture of a woman, identified in testimony as Rusch, withdrawing $300 from Brown's checking account.
When the man and woman entered the Raytown storage area office that morning, the woman, Faught testified, "seemed a little distressed and needed help." The man seemed to
woman as a dark-skinned, dark-hairied man between 28 and 30. Morrison asked Fawthew whether that man was in the courtroom yesterday.
"It was a man with longer hair that looks like Mr. Grissom." she said.
be there to support her."
The woman conferred with the man when Faught asked for her address and place of employment, Faught testified. The address given by the woman was a post office box in Kansas City, Mio. Who, according to other sources, was the first to enter Rikki Y.C. Cho, one of Grissom's aliases.
The storage area was empty by the end of June 1989. Faught testified, and she never saw the man and woman again after the agreement was signed.
Faught testified that she had been approached during the past couple of weeks by investigators and was asked if she could identify the woman or the man.
"I was a little uzzy. It wasn't until after they (police) left that me and my husband started talking that it all started coming back." Faulty testified.
She said that her husband had drawn up the choi rental agreement but that she closed the window and locked it.
She also testified that a man named Yoon co rented a storage area at the Ruyton town hall.
Yesterday, she identified the man who claimed he was Cho as someone who looked like him.
Grissom, 29, faces three counts of first-degree murder and nine other charges relating to the June 1989 disappearance of Brown and Rush, Lenexa roomates who then were 22, and 1987 KU graduate Joan M. Butler, then 24, of Overland Park. The women never have been found. Grissom pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Afterward, attorneys privately met with
naughty clients. Cross-examination.
Fault will begin this month.
Iraq liable for war damages
UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council voted yesterday to hold Saddam Hussein's regime liable for human rights abuses and war damages during its 3-month-old occupation of Kuwait.
The Associated Press
The vote was 13-0, with Cuba and Yemen abstaining. It was the 10th resolution condemning Iraq since Saddam's troops overran Kuwait on
Aug. 2, and it warned of unspecified further action if Iraq did not obey the council.
Senior military officers from the five permanent Security Council member nations met later to discuss implementation of the sanctions.
U. S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering delivered a warning of possible independent U.S. action.
"It is the solem of every state to protect its citizens," Pickering said. "My government takes this responsibility most seriously."
"We join the council in this demand and we urge the government of Iraq to comply. But I want to underscore one point. The United States will do that which is necessary to meet its obligation to its own citizens."
Abdul Amir Al-Anbari, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, rejected the resolution. He said the Security Council was applying a double standard in dealing more harshly with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait than with Israel's occupation of Arab territories.
The resolution also demands that Iraq allow foreign governments to send supplies to their diplomats in occupied, Kuwait City.
The resolution, which cites violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention, also hinted at a future war crimes inquiry. There was no specific mention of a tribunal or reparations.
See related story p. 10
The Associated Press
Bush says he would send troops into combat without Congress OK
"History is replete with examples where the president has had to take action," Bush said. Apparently referring to the U.S. invasion of Panama, Bush said, "I know if somebody mentioned provocation, we'd have no hesitancy at all."
OLKHALMIA CITY — President Bush said yesterday "we'd have no hesitation at all" to use military force in the Persian Gulf if provoked by Iraq and indicated he would not accuse to get Congress approval.
Bush said he was not trying to prepare the country for war.
"I'm just doing my job as president of the United States," he said. "I'm not preparing anybody for anything, I'm as determined as I've ever been that this aggression will not stand."
Shrugging off his slump in the polls, he accused Democrats of trying to win elections through a class warfare kind of garbage.
"I think people know that this Congress is controlled by the taxers, by the liberal Democrats." Bush said.