6A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ELECTION GUIDE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5,2002
Election Guide CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5A
Budget/Spending: Clack supports individual involvement in social programs instead and wants to decrease the size and funding for federal government.
Abortion: Clack support abortion rights.
Crime/Guns: Wants to legalize non-violent crimes that involve issues such as drug-use.
Web site: www.lpks.org
Dan Lvkins
Issues:
Party: Democrat from Topeka
Experience: Aide to former Gov
Robert Docking, 1971-1972;
Democratic Party treasurer,
1993-present
Education: Lykins wants more federal funding of public education to make it easier to receive student loans, grants and funding for special projects. "When times get tough, we should make it easier for students to get loans instead of making it harder," Lykins said.
Budget/Spending: Lykins wants to bring more corporate responsibility to big businesses and eliminate corporations ability to move off-shore to evade federal income taxes.
- Abortion: Lykins is an abortion opponent, but does not plan to change current abortion laws.
- Crime/Guns: Lykins wants to alleviate poverty to lower crime rates. He plans to increase the minimum wage and give employers tax incentives to provide health care for their employees.
Web site: None
U.S. SENATORS
(all Kansans are eligible to vote for Senators)
Steven Rosile
Education; He emphasizes returning educational responsibilities to local communities.
Party: Libertarian from Wichita
Experience: None
Issues:
Budget/Spending: Rosile advocates "sunset laws" in which bureaucracies not explicitly authorized by the Constitution expire unless they justify their budgets, resulting in less funding for bureaucracies.
- Abortion: He supports abortion rights, but is opposed to federal and state funding of abortions.
- Crime/Guns: Rosile believes government does not have the duty to protect individuals from themselves.
He opposes the war on drugs and supports the legalization of possession, use and sale of drugs for adults.
Web site: home.att.net/~sarasile/
George Cook
Experience: Served in the Navy, 1986-1995; Worked with USD 300 in 1998 to help propose educational budget cuts and cost-saving ideas.
Party: Reform from Mission
Issues:
Education: He supports increasing the availability of loans and grants for prospective teachers who couldn't otherwise afford to prepare for the occupation.
Budget/Spending: Cook wants the federal budget to adhere to generally accepted accounting principles, so citizens would fully understand the budget and be able to effectively check unwise spending.
Abortion: He is an abortion opponent, except when the life of the mother is endangered by the birth or the mother is carrying a child conceived by rape.
- Crime/Guns: Cook supports more loans and grants for prospective police officers to alleviate their expenses.
Website:home.earthlink.net/~trei
Experience: U.S. House of Representatives for Kansas, 1981-1996; U.S. Senator, 1996-present issues
Party: Republican from Dodge City
Pat Roberts
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- Education: He supports more flexibility in federal school rules and wants to focus educational resources to help those with the greatest need.
- Budget/Spending: Roberts supports a balanced budget amendment and line item vetoes.
- Abortion: He voted to maintain bans on abortion on military bases and for banning partial-birth abortions.
- Crime/Guns: He supports maintaining penalties for gun and drug violations and current gun laws. He also voted to case license and background checks at gun shows.
Web site: www.roberts.senate.gov
ATTORNEY GENERAI
(all Kansans are eligible to vote for attorney general)
Name: Chris Biggs
Party: Democrat from Geary County
Experience: Thirteen years of prosecuting experience; Served four consecutive terms as the chief attorney for Geary County
Issues:
- Abortion: Biggs does not plan to use his office to legislate change in abortion laws.
Crime/Gans: He supports the death penalty, in appropriate cases, as a means of society protecting itself.
Web site: www.biggsforag.com
Phill Kline
Party: Republican from Shawnee Experience: Lawyer in Overland Park; Kansas House of Representatives, 1992-2000.
Abortion; Kline is an abortion
Issues:
■ Crime/Guns: He supports mandatory 50-year prison sentence for offenders convicted of two or more rapes, increasing penalties for solicitation of children for sexual exploitation and increase penalties for stalking.
opponent.
Web site: www.klineforag.com
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
(all Kansans are eligible to vote for insurance commissioner)
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Sebellius has spent two terms as insurance commissioner, leaving no incumbent in the race.
Coffeyville Democratic candidate Jim Garner has worked as a lawyer and been a member of the Kansas House of Representatives since 1990. He is a staunch supporter of refusing campaign contributions from the insurance industry and protecting consumers.
Lawrence Republican candidate Sandy Praeger has worked as a health-care consultant and been a member of the Kansas Senate since 1992. She was a member of the Kansas House from 1990-92 and was the Lawrence mayor from 1986-87. She is in favor of competitive insurance rates, increasing insurance availability and finding more ways to cover people who are uninsured.
STATE TREASURER
(all Kansans are eligible to vote for state treasurer)
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Shallenburger has spent one term as state treasurer, leaving no incumbent in the race.
Olathe Democratic candidate Sally Finney, daughter of former Kansas Gov.
Joan Finney, has worked as executive director of the Kansas
Public Health Association She lobbied for the state cigarette tax increase and has served on several different committees including the National Council on Alcoholism She supports restricting credit card marketing to young people, bankruptcy prevention and helping farmers find low-interest loans.
Topeka Republican candidate Lynn Jenkins has been a member of the Kansas Senate since 2000 and served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1998-2000. Jenkins hopes to teach students about money by creating a "bank at school" program and wants to expand the lowinterest rate agricultural loan program.
SECRETARY OF STATE
(all Kanans are eligible to vote for secretary of state)
Kansas City, Kan., Democrat candidate David Haley was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 1994-2000 and has been a member of the Kansas Senate since 2000. He is in favor of a 10 percent cut in the office budget and secretary's salary, decreased fees and increased voter turnout.
Topeka Republican candidate Ron Thornburgh has been Secretary of State since 1994 and has worked in the Secretary of State's office since 1983. He is strongly in favor of improving voter turnout, enhancing customer service and increasing electronic filings.
Wheaton Reform candidate Charles St.-George is a semiretired barber with no political experience.
He is an abortion opponent and favors of improving voter turnout and reforming primary election initiatives and referenda.
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