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Wednesday, August 27, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Dole rates 91 percent on conservative scale
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Five conservative Republican senators — James McClure and Steve Symms of Idaho, Chic Hecht of Nevada, Jesse Heels of North Carolina and Jake Garn of Utah — got perfect scores yesterday in the American Conservative Union's annual litmus test.
And the group applauded Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole for bringing up conservative issues in the Senate and gave him a 91 percent rating.
Union chairman David Keene labeled Dole a fairly conservative senator.
Former Sen. John East, R-N.C., who committed suicide in June, was among those who got a 100 percent rating.
The ACU selected 21 key issues that the senators voted on in 1985 as a basis for their ratings — including such things as supporting the confirmation of Edwin Meees as attorney general, MX missile
financing, and aid to Nicaraguan rebels.
At the bottom of the conservative group's rating chart were liberal Democrats. Sens, Gary Hart of Colorado and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio flunked with a zero rating. Sens, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii, Donald Riegel of Michigan, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Daniel Moynihan of New York each received 4 percent ratings.
In the House, eight Republicans got the group's top rating, including Joe Barton, Bill Archer, Beau Boulter, Larry Combes and Tom Delay, all from Texas. Republican Reps. Bob Stump of Arizona, Dan Burton of Indiana and Richard Cheney of Wyoming also got 100 percent approval ratings.
Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., who has portrayed himself as the conservatives' presidential candidate for 1988, received only an 81 percent favorable rating.
Platforms adopted
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - Although they worked in distinctly different fashions, the Kansas Republican and Democratic platform committees yesterday adopted party platforms that were similar in many respects.
The Republicans rammed through a 14-page platform, fending off the only unauthorized attempt to change wording in a draft put together by party leaders. The GOP platform committee packed the Kansas House chamber for speeches by Republican candidates and to formally approve the platform.
the panelists. Meanwhile, only about two dozen members of the Democratic Party platform committee met in the old Supreme Court room of the Statehouse. In contrast to the GOP meeting, no major Democratic candidates appeared.
Instead, the Democrats spent the afternoon wrestling with wording and adding some planks. Although they were not platform committee members, representatives of Wichita's Rainbow Coalition — led by the Rev James Saiz, an unsuccessful 4th District congressional candidate
- contributed language on several planks.
Both party platforms spoke in general terms on many subjects, often with similar proclamations in support of agriculture, economic development, education and other topics.
Among major differences was the GOP's support of reinstatement of the death penalty. The Democrats proposed a mandatory 30-year minimum sentence for first-degree murder.
In addition, on the issue of medical malpractice and other types of liability, the Democrats said they were hesitant to make further changes in the civil-law system, restricting the right to sue for damages, until evidence proved that as the source of the problem of rising liability insurance premiums.
However, the GOP proposed a list of changes in the civil law system, including turning over punitive damage awards to the state rather than to an injured plaintiff, ensuring a greater portion of actual damages is paid to injured parties rather than to lawyers, and giving immunity to members of governing bodies.
Former senator forms state Rainbow party
TOPEKA — The state's political parties must start earning support from blacks, hispanics and native Americans, according to a former state senator who announced yesterday the formation of the Rainbow Coalition of Kansas.
The Associated Press
"The Rainbow Coalition provides an option, a third party option if necessary," said former Sen. Darryl G. Gray, of Wichita, the state coordinator of the new political group.
Members of the organization attended a meeting yesterday with
state Democratic Party leaders to press for the inclusion of several issues in the party platform.
The Rainbow Coalition officials also met with the Republican Party platform committee. Gray said he made arrangements to meet during the next two weeks with House Speaker Mike Hayden, the GOP nominee for governor, and other party officials.
During the Democratic meeting, the Rainbow Coalition members suggested a number of changes in the platform and several were adopted.
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