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(913) 842-9293 Legislature candidates respond to KU faculty Group discusses priorities for state funding By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer Eleven Lawrence-area candidates for the Kansas Legislature gathered yesterday at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union to answer questions ranging from University employee's salaries to health care. The questions were submitted by the audience, which was comprised mostly of KU faculty and staff. Many of the questions dealt with funding to the University. "Right now, gains in funding at KU would just give us parity with our peer institutions," said state Rep. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, who is running for state Senate. "The state needs to fund more at KU, instead of trying to balance the budget on the backs of students." Praeger's opponent, Democrat Joyce Wolf, said she would seek alternative ways to fund the state's universities. "When people think of Douglas County, they think of the quality of people here at KU," she said. "We will lose all the quality people if we cannot continue to pay them well and fund the University." State Sen. Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said he thought the state government needed a shift in its priorities. "We spend about $20 a day on each student in the Lawrence school district," he said. "At the same time, we spend about $70 per inmate at the East Lansing Prison. We need to re-examine these priorities." Several of the candidates said they thought that Kansas spent too much on its prisons. They said other things deserved more funding. "Kansas spends about $2 million funding prisons, said Forrest Swall, a KU assistant professor of social welfare, who is running as a Democrat for the 45th district in the Kansas House of Representatives. "Kansas has about 2 million people, and 6,000 people in jail," he said. "Minnesota, with a population of 4 million, has 4,000 people in jail. We could save ourselves in a lot of money by changing the way we treat people who have committed a crime." Praeger agreed with Swail, saying she felt the state government should look at the causes and effects of how money was spent. "We do not currently fund enough prevention programs," she said. "In the senate, I will continue to fight for more funding for family preservation programs. If we could preserve families, we could save a lot of long-term costs." A question on health care brought comments from all 11 candidates. Most agreed that Kansans needed more access to less expensive health care. "The thing I want to address is why health care has to cost so much," said Richard Small, an independent candidate for the 46th district in the Kansas House. "The state allows doctors to control the amount of doctors in the state. Maybe that needs to be changed. Right now, health care is out of reach for too many people." Praeger said there were about 400,000 Kansans without health insurance. She said she favored making insurance companies provide more and better health care packages to small businesses. "Also, we need to reduce all the red tape in the health industry," she said. "Doctors have to hire two or three people just to fill out all the paperwork." In closing statements, several of the candidates disagreed about the legitimacy of term limitations. "I believe we need to go back to the days of the citizen legislator," said Neva Entriken, a Republican running for the 46th district in the Kansas House. "There are too many people that have been in Topeka for 20 or 30 years." The forum was sponsored by the Classified Senate and Unclassified Professional Staff Association. Fair offers free health checks Cholesterol screening, blood pressure testing, fresh popcorn and free condoms are among the things available today and tomorrow at the annual health fair sponsored by Watkins Memorial Health Center and other campus health groups.