University Daily Kansan / Thursday. October 25. 1990
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Hayden still supports adding Washburn to Kansas Regents
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden, flush with an endorsement from Topeka Mayor Butch Felker, yesterday reiterated his support that Washburn University should be part of the state Board of Regents system.
Hayden, acknowledging that inclusion of the nation's last municipal university in the state system is unpopular outside Topeka, said he would continue his efforts if he were elected to a second term. He also opposed the Ashburna state school in the 1986 balked, but the Legislature balked.
Attempts to make Washburn a Regents school have drawn intense opposition from lawmakers representing districts that have one of the six state schools. They fear diminished state financing if the amount of money available for higher education must be shared with another school.
However, Hayden said he still saw a chance that Washburn could become part of the state system in the next four years. Hayden is seeker for a seat on the governor's Republican State Treasurer Joan Finney in the Nov. 6 election.
Hayden has degrees from Kansas State University and Fort Hays State.
Finney said she did not think the state had enough money to bring Washburn into the system. Washburn is Finney's alma mater.
"Traditionally, governors in their last term of office have a better relationship with the Legislature than are less partisanship." Hayden said.
Hayden said the Democrats had less interest in undermining a governor's proposals if the state's chief executive was not up for re-election.
Governor's wife says Finney gave Hayden edge he needs
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
The recent television debate between Gov. Mike Hayden and State Treasurer Joan Finty gave the governor the edge he will need to win the gubernational election, his wife, has said, yesterday.
"I have found a lot of people that were very discouraged by Mrs. Finney's constant attack on Gov. Hayden and the fact that she never really said what she would do." Hayden said during a campaign stop in Lawrence. "So that was a very positive thing for Mike and has generated a lot of support for him."
The governor and Hayden are pleased with the support they have received from Republicans nationally.
Hayden has been spending the last weeks before the Nov. 6 election on the campaign trail for her husband, she said.
"We are very appreciative of both President Bush and Vice President Qayle coming to Kansas to support Mike," she said.
Hayden said Barbara Bush would come to Kansas City, Kan., Nov. 1 to rally support for the
governor.
"With 13 days left we need to touch as many people as possible," Hayden said.
"It varies from community to community," she said. "Some of them have outgrown their facilities."
Hayden, who visited Douglas County Senior Services Center, 74 Vernon St., said some county officials believed the students in Kansas could be immured.
Hayden said she wished more countries could have the spacious facilities and equipment that were required to Lawrence senior citizens.
Hadyn greeted about 40 senior citizens at the center, and she also visited churches at the First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway.
Alan Bruce, a Lawrence resident who met Heddy yesterday, said he did not think the governor or Finney could solve problems that could not be solved at the federal level.
"I don't think the president or any of them know what to do with the deficit we're in," he said. "I just pay much attention to them."
But Hayden said the issue could cost him some votes, and noted that Shawnee County, where Washburn is located, fell into the Republican column in
the gubernatorial race.
"It will become more and more critical to the survival of the university,"Hayden seed of Washburn's admission to the state system.
Finney tax proposal criticized
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Joan Finney may be changing her property tax relief plan because she and her gubernatorial campaign staff do not understand tax issues. Gov. Mike Hayden said yesterday.
Hayden criticized Finney for refraining her tax proposal, saying she appeared indecisive. Hayden is a Republican seeking his second four year term. Finney, a Democrat, is the state treasurer.
"Mrs Finney is dealing with a very complex issue, and it's one which she does not have a wealth of
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experiences on, and it's one which her staff and advisers don't have a wealth of experience on." Hayden said. "And you find that they change quickly, and not notice how unpappular some of the trial balloons that they run up are."
A Finney campaign worker said she had not altered her basic goal of making the tax system fairer by having the sales tax apply to more items to raise money for property tax relief. He also said she would have to negotiate with the Legislature anyway.
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During a speech Tuesday, Finney acknowledged that some items now exempt from the state sales tax are at the full 4.25 percent state rate.
the Legislature, there's going to have to be some give and take," said Mark Schneller, a campaign spokesperson. "The most important thing to us is distributing the tax relief in a fair and equal manner."
Finey proposed at the start of the fall election campaign that nearly 50 goods and services now exempt from tax on items such as rolls, but at only a 1 percent rate.
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