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Candidate says economy, credibility are key issues
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The key issues facing the nation are inflation and the economy, restoration of confidence in government and the energy crisis, Martha Kays, Democratic candidate for the seat being vacated by Rep. Bill Roy, D-Kan., said yesterday.
Speaking to a news conference before addressing the Lawrence Women's Political Committee, she said she would win in November if he could campaign and the district and "gives voters the option."
Keys said a recent poll had indicated that her campaign for the second district seat was running better than she had expected.
She said it had showed that she was running close to her opponent State Rep. John C. Woolley, who has been criticized.
She said Peterson had spent nearly twice as much money in his campaign as she had.
"It just looking great for us," Keys said. Keys, who has been active in politics for many years, commented on her decision to run for Congress.
"I found myself in a position that everything I had strongly believed in, strongly fought for, strongly worked for, for the last dozen or more years, in terms of achieving good representative government, was on the line.
"I felt that I could carry on the kind of
very active, vital working representation this district has become used to the past.
A national energy policy is needed to combat the energy crisis, which isn't over, but it remains.
Keys said many of today's problems had resulted from the lack of long-range connectivity.
National decisions are needed to find new energy sources, Keys said. People need to become conscious of the growing rate of fossil-fuel consumption.
"I was very appalled, totally surprised," Keys said, when President Gerald R. Ford granted a pardon to former President Richard M. Nixon.
"They said they were trying to imitate Knievel, taking off ramps on their bikes," said a hospital spokesman. "There has been a lot of wrong advice the kids just have him on their minds."
One hospital in Chicago treated several youngsters for minor injuries just after her discharge.
The National Safety Council won't say there's any connection between Knievel's exploits and a recent rash of bicycle and motorcycle accidents, many of them involving youngsters. It says only that pedal cycle injuries are up more than 20 per cent this year and that fatalities have risen by 13 per cent.
Kniewel's Snake River Canyon attempt was shown live in theaters across the country and was repeated this weekend on television.
Pedal cycles are vehicles operated by foot power and don't include motorcycles.
Both were trying to emulate Evel Krievel, the motorcycle dared devil who Sept. 8 in an attempt to clear the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on his Sky-Cycle.
Bicycle accidents traced to Knievel
"I'm not putting Knievel down," said Sue Irawse of Carey N.C. N.C., whose son was killed in 2017, to attempt to cross a river.
A 9-year-old Cary, N.C., boy tried to clear a two-foot-wide creek on his bike and broke both arms. In Indianapolis, another 9-year-old lost control of his bike after leaving a launching ramp and skidded along the pavement on his face.
It is very keenly felt." She said she had been carefully felt in the second district.
From the Associated Press
Judge calls mistrial after falling asleep
As more women become leaders in politics and government, Keys said, their presence will reflect a change in how decisions are made.
From the Associated Press
CINCINNATI--Judge Robert Wood declared a mistrial recently after he fell asleep during a rape trial.
From the Associated Press
"Judges are human," Wood, Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge, said after the defense attorney moved for a mistrial. Wood said he granted the motion to avoid any possibility of influencing the jury.
politics in all levels is very keenly felt."
Keys said the nation had a long way to go to return to an equal, three-branch system of government. There will be problems with this system, and it considers itself above the law, she said.
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and also from Indianapolis, made a bad landing on the rear wheel of his bicycle and broke his collar bone.
Howe said the kids built a ramp of plywood four feet high supported by three posts and speed down a hill. On a dare, Glenn tried it, was thrown over the handbars and flex body across the creek when the front hit the ramp. His bike landed on top of him.
Daniel Jonas, the Indianapolis boy, tried a similar feat two days before Knevel's
"A woman has to work doubly hard," she said about her campaign. She said a woman had to allay more constituent's fears than a male candidate did.
When asked about women in government, Keys said, "I think the need for women in
"I wouldn't pay a penny to see that Evel make a jump, but my boy, George, thinks he's great—and he's got a fractured Gillett to show for it. Mrs. Barbura Gillette said after bringing Owen-yord George home from Resurrection Hospital in Chicago.
Keys said it had been an uphill struggle to
It would have been wise for Ford to have kept his word, she said, referring to earlier statements by Ford that he wouldn't pardon him until judicial processes had been finished.
make a name for herself outside the party workers.
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For the first time, she said she has become aware of her responsibility for everything she says and of the research necessary to substantiate her opinions.
Before she entered the race, she said, she thought candidates were needed who had deep human and social concerns to exert strong leadership.
"I wanted to be sure the representative from this district did that," she said.
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