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Experience and vitality clash in race
University Daily Kansan, October 30, 1984
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
Experience versus fresh ideas are running the race for 2nd district county commissioner, and both advocates say they have the advantage.
Republican Bob Neis says that as a two-term incumbent, he would make a better choice for the commission than Democrat David Hopper.
Hopper, on the other hand, says he has important ideas that will bring "new vitality" to the commission.
NEIS SAID FRIDAY that the commission would need his experience because Commission Chairman Beverly Bradley would not be running again, and Nancy Heibart had served for only two years.
Bob Neis
"I'm more qualified than my opponent." Neis said. "I've been in county government for eight years. When you have a budget for the county of $15.5 million, you don't put inexperienced people in there."
David Hopper
have a lot of really good ideas, and I want to put a full-time effort into this job. I have the time and I am willing research for any problems I need to.
But Hopper said, "Someone new would be good for the commission. I
"This job is billed as part-time; I think it takes full-time devotion."
Hopper said that if he were elected to the county commission, he would push for several changes.
"A PUBLISHED AGENDA would allow people to know the date of any issue being considered that they might want to have input in." Hopper said.
"I also think the commission should consider evening meetings so people who work during the day can have a chance to participate if they want to without being absent from work." he said.
Hopper, who retired in May as a
vocational instructor at Haskell Indian Junior College, lives in Eudora. He is married and has five grown children.
Neis, who is married and also new grown children, lives on a farm south of Eudora. He said that as director and chairman of the board of Elk Grove Valley State Bank in Eudora, he had more business experience than Hopper.
"HE'S BEEN A TEACHER all of his life," Neis said of Hopper. "I have the business experience, and I feel confident that while I've been on the commission."
Both candidates said KU students should be interested in county government.
"The City Commission and the county government are not the same." Neis said.
Both candidates for 3rd district county commissioner are relying on their years of service in the community to help them win the confidence of voters on Tuesday.
During the campaign for the seat, Republican Warren Rhodes has stressed his banking experience, while Democrat Linda Lobensky has emphasized her years of volunteer work on local boards and committees.
Rhodes said Saturday that his experience as former president of First National Bank in Lawrence firm him the better candidate for the office.
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"I WAS PRESIDENT of the bank for 25 years and during that time it grew from a $9 million to a $100 million bank." Rhodes said. "I am very proud of that. Business experience is what separates us. If I can
Warren Rhodes
run a bank that successfully, I can help run the county.
Linda Lubenskv
Lubensky, however, said she thought she was better prepared to step in and be an effective commissioner.
"My background will help me wisely use the $15.5 million budget."
"I know about this county," she said. "I have been attending County Commission meetings, visiting with department heads and visiting agencies that receive money from the county."
She also has been on the Douglas County Council on Community Services, the Douglas County chapter of Kansans for Improvement in Nursing Homes and the Lecompton Historical Society.
"I am becoming more and more aware of how important it is to have people willing to make the full commitment to good county government."
LUBENSKY SAID THAT she had worked with neighborhood associations and that for seven years she had been on the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board.
"The block grant advisory board has given me a great deal of experience," she said. "We make a lot of allocations of money."
Rhodes and Lubensky are running for a seat now filled by Republican Beverly Bradley, who decided not to run for a second four-year term.
Rhodes said he became interested
in running after retiring from his position at the bank in December.
"I WAS ALWAYS VERY active in civic affairs while I worked in the bank," he said. "But I never had a full-time elected office. Now I do."
"I'm in good health, I see no reason to just climb in the rocking chair and retire for good."
Rhodes is married, has two children and has lived in Lawrence for 28 years.
In addition to his position at the First National Bank, Rhodes also has served as treasurer of Douglas County Warm Hearts, an organization to help needy people pay heating bills. He was chairman of the hospital board and president of Lawrence Chamber of Commerce in 1961.
Rhodes said he was trying to convey his message to student voters.
"I hope they realize how important this is," he said.
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