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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, January 17, 1980
Charlton takes Glover's seat, sets priorities
By TOM TEDESCHI
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - Top among priorities in the 1980 Legislative session for freshman representative Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, are the proposed pay increases a state university and civil service employee in Gov. John Carlin's fiscal 1981 budget.
Charlton was nominated unproposed two weeks ago by the 448 District Council to be elected all the time left vacant by Mike Glover when he moves to go into private law practice in Chicago.
UNDER CARLIN'S PROPOSAL all state
university and civil service employees would receive pay increases of up to 12 percent, mean an 8 percent pay increase for KU's faculty and an 11 percent increase for its classified empl
Charlton, who also is a non-paid instructor of Western civilization at KU, yesterday expressed hope that the pay increases would make it through the Legislature intact.
"I know that in the past Gloper, Glover had to go to the floor of the House to put back things which have been taken out incom- pondered by me. In case, I would be most willing to do the same."
"Of course 8 percent for faculty doesn't account for inflation, but that's as much as they probably had hoped for."
NEW COWERN to Kansas state politics, Charlton ran for the 44th District seat in 1968 and 1986, losing each time. In 1970, she was elected as the first female campaign treasurer. Last year she was a legislative aide under Carlin, keeping track of legislation moving through the House and Senate.
Among other portions of Carlin's budget she supports the proposed sales tax on gasoline and diesel fuels to fund state highway renovations.
"Roads have to be maintained, and we also have to improve some, which costs more," she said. "And, of course, the cost goes up."
The choice, she said, was to take the money out of the general fund or to pass a per gallon or per dollar sales tax. Carlin's proposed tax is a per dollar tax.
"Douglas County roads need repair and there is just barely enough money in the highway fund to maintain those roads. And then, we don't get those improvements."
"I think that would be preferable to taking it out of the general fund or the gallon tax," she said. "It's a more flexible tax, because of inflation."
THE PER DOLLAR TAX enables the tax to rise and fall with the amount of fuel
purchased, and with the amount of wear on the roads, she said.
CHARLITT FAVORS the legalization of marijuana for medical and therapeutic reasons and the lessening of penalties for its possession, as did Glover.
But she said, "I don't think it is an issue this year; it's not a viable one anyway," and they are tied up in two Senate committees, and you need to stay there for quite a while, she said.
Charlton also favors Carlin's proposed mandatory 30-year sentence instead of the death penalty.
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"I couldn't vote for the death penalty unless I could carry out the execution myself, and I couldn't," she said.
Charlton, 56, has lived in Lawrence for 20 years and received her bachelors and masters degrees in political science from KU.
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