University Daily Kansan, November 3, 1982
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Carlin
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HIS WIFE, flushed and close to his side throughout the evening, said she was surprised at the early CBS announcement that projected Calgary almost immediately after the polls closed.
"It was 7:04 exactly, I remember, and John came up and grabbed my hand and said a national network had declared our victory. He was there, and when we said we won before Ted Kennedy," she said.
Carlin attributed his strong win in Republican-dominated Johnson County to a strong pro-severance tax sentiment and the openness of his leadership to the agricultural community throughout his term.
"The same with western Kansas." Carin sadd. I worked hard to communicate with them even though he didn't know it.
BEFORE CARLIN'S arrival, the exuberant crowd predicted an early victory for the governor and congressional candidate Jim Slattery.
"I always knew John would win," said Ann Ozegevce, Carlin's sister and field coordinator for his campaign. She left her home and husband to campaign full time for her brother in Kansas.
"This is where my prejudice comes in, but I think people wanted John Carlin rather than the
likes of Sam Hardgey, a multimillionaire with no record of public service," she said.
Another supporter described her theory that this election proved that traditionally Republican voters were not as strong.
"You just have to know Kansas before Robert Docking," said Cathy O'Hara, a campaign worker. "We've been coming to these things for 25 years and we still don't see that Democrat victory." That I was sure of a Democratic victory."
RUTH ANN SCHOONER, who headed the Carlin campaign in Barton County, which is intensely pro-oil, said many Republicans in that area supported Carlin although they publicly dislodged unleashed.
"A lot of people were afraid to come out for Carlin because of the anti-severance tax sentiment here. The media here was so biased and unfair," she said.
Student coitions from Fort Hays State University and Washburn University also arrived to celebrate Carlin's victory and push for a severance tax to finance education.
"AS STUDENTS, we've seen what Reaganism does to education, and that's what Sam Hardage was proposing for Kansas," said Bill Blankenship, executive board member of the Associated Students of Kansas and a Washburn University "Without the severance tax, what would we do?"
Briarly Hardage, 11, daughter of defeated gubernatorial candidate Sam Hardage; Kathryn Price, 10, his niece; and Kathy Leu, 17, a Hardage volunteer, react with disbelief as they watch Gov. John Carlin make his victory speech on a Hardage headquarters television set.
Lawrence voters favor nuclear freeze by 3-1 margin in public opinion poll
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM
Staff Reporter
Participants in a citywide public opinion poll yesterday recommended by a three-to-one margin that the United States and the Soviet Union will be engaged in the production and testing of nuclear weapons.
Although the locations for the freeze vote and the general election were the same, only 33 percent of those who voted in the general election voted in the freeze poll.
Tables for the opinion poll were hard to find at some voting places, said Tom Moore, a member of the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, which asked the city to allow the poll.
Secretary of State Jack Brier was in Lawrence last week to ensure that arrangements for the opinion poll would not interfere with the regular election.
SOME TABLES were moved farther away
from their planned locations as a result of his visit, but some were moved to better locations at the airport.
Some people also may have thought that participating in the poll was automatically approving of the freeze, he said.
But he said participation in the opinion poll was higher in those places where the freeze occurred.
Seventy-four percent of the 8,839 participants in the poll approved of the freeze and 26 percent opposed it.
The Lawrence City Commission decided Aug. 24 to allow the poll, which faced a court challenge, to take place.
Moore said the results probably were representative of opinion in Lawrence, and that view was mirrored by a spokeswoman for the national freeze movement.
"GENERALLY, what we seeing in most places is a two-to-one or three-to-one margin."
said Karin Fierke, a co-director of the National Clearinghouse for the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. "We're very encouraged by what happened in Lawrence.
"I think it will send a very clear message to Washington that a bilateral nuclear weapons freeze is something that the American people favor."
THE NUCLEAR FREEZE campaign, which included last-minute advertisements and yard signs in Lawrence, had been a non-partisan one, Moore said.
Moore said that about 145 coalition representatives worked at the polling places yesterday and that 62 people from the local League of Women Voters counted the ballots last night.
"It concerns all of us in a very profound sense — our lives are on the line," he said. "People who did not agree feel to get in and register the opinion, and I think that's a very good thing."
Incumbent Republicans' victories in Kansas boost party morale, lower GOP 'death toll'
By CAROL, LICHTI and VINCE HESS Staff Reporters
TOPEKA-It was not all tears and disappointment for Kansas Republicans yesterday thanks to victories by incumbents Attorney Robert Stephan and Secretary of State Jack Brinker.
And at the Democratic campaign headquarter- esuccessful and unsuccessful candidate listes.
At Republican campaign headquarters, Merlyn Brown, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, said of Stephen Brier and Brieer's victories, "It shows the Republican Party is strong in Kansas. We've lost the attention-getter, nor have it not taken a death toll on the Republican Party."
"I'm very proud and I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for this victory. And in spite of my faults, I will try to do my best. My heart is with the people of this state.
"TO ME, it's everybody's duty to get involved," said Burr, a former assistant attorney general who lost a 1974 bid for the Democratic nomination for attorney general.
STEPHAN TRAVELLED here from Wichita to the delight of an enthusiastic crowd of Republican voters.
Burr, a Lawrence attorney, said he enjoyed running for office nonetheless.
Burr, a graduate of the KU School of Law, said he would continue to promote the issues of his campaign, especially pulvinar reform and nuclear power. Mr. Burr also spoke at Creek Nuclear Power Plant near Burlington.
"I figured I'd probably get beat unless the incumbent messed up or somehow violated the statute," she said.
He said he was scheduled to appear on several radio and television programs to discuss nuclear
Stephan said his office was conducting a study of nuclear power and Wolf Creek.
BRIER, JUBILANT about his re-election as secretary of state, brought feelings of success to a party headquarters that was grieving about the loss of a presidential race and 2nd Congressional District race.
"Let me make one thing clear. This has not been a funeral for the Republican Party." Brier said. "There'll be another election, another day, another week, and the award as the state of Kansas and as Republicans."
Democrat Billy McCray, who lost in his bid for secretary of state but has two years left in his term as a state senator, stayed in his homeown of Wichita to watch the election results.
MCRAY SAID that organized labor's endorsement of incumbent Brier had hurt his campaign.
However, McCray said he was pleased by the
"I think it's a great victory for the Democrats in the state of Kansas," he said.
McCray, a real estate agent, said he had no plans for the future other than to serve out his business.
But, he said, if the severance tax, a major issue in Carlin's campaign, was not passed by the Legislature by 1984, he would run again and work for its passage in the new Legislature.
DEMOCRAT JOAN Finney will continue her political involvement in her office as state treasurer after winning the election yesterday to her fifth consecutive two-year term.
Finney described her win as "a victory for the office," which proved public support despite criticism from her opponent, Republican Doug Holt.
During the campaign Holt criticized her for mismanagement of state funds, but Finney said she did not want to rebut what she called "unfounded" charges.
IN AN INTERVIEW from his home in Overland Park, Holt said, "I'm not very happy. I expected that I wouldn't do well in Sedgwick County and Shawnee County."
But Holt said he was happy with the campaign.
"We tried our best," he said.
Holt resigned his House seat to run for the election but still serves on several committees.
Nation
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Kennedy, D-Mass., a leading Democratic prospect for president in 1984.
Third parties get few votes in gubernatorial race
MANY OF THE SENATE's best known Democra-
ratic names easily won re-election.
In Nebraska, Robert Kerrey, a Vietnam veteran who won the Medal of Honor, unseated Thone. Democrats came close in neighboring Iowa, but GOP LL. Gov. Terry Branstad finally defeated Roxanne Conlin in her bid to become the state's first woman governor.
One of them, Edmund G. Brown JR., governor since taking over from Ronald Reagan in 1975 and now the Democratic Senate candidate, lost to San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson for the Senate spot currently held by Republican S.I. Hayakawa.
Others included Kennedy in Massachusetts, Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Patrick Moynihan of New York Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, Henry Jacobson of Texas, Daniel F. Wheeler of Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., and S. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas.
Staff Reporter
By DON KNOX
Frank Shelton Jr. lay in a hospital bed in Bartlesville, Oklaw., last night, listening closely to Kansas' gubernatorial election returns on a portable radio.
The broadcasts were fuzzy and infrequent. But the 75-year-old Shelton, hospitalized with pneumonia, had more than a passive interest in the matter.
Shelton was the American Party's gubernatorial candidate in Kansas. He ran a distant third behind Democratic Gov. John Carlin and Republican Sand Hardage.
"I have no intentions of running for governor again," said Shelton, who ran against Carlin and former Gov. Robert Bennett in 1978. "But I do have plans for the next 40 years."
SHELTON, a rancher from Cherryvale,
garnered 1 percent of the state vote. But last night the candidate, a Republican for nearly five decades, endorsed Carlin, a Democrat.
"I have no respect for Hardage's industrialization," Shelton said. "That's going to kill Kansas."
ALMOST 300 MILES away, 20-year-old George Williams spent election night at home in Junction City. Williams is a Kansas State University student and the Republican Party candidate for lieutenant governor.
"I'm praying for divine intervention from god," Williams said of the election. "I think the people are going to be very excited."
Williams, who ran with the Prohibitionist's gubernatorial candidate, Warren Martin, said he was the most conservative in his district.
"I never intended to run," Williams said, "but a few other candidates were unable to enter. My nomination was Mr. Martin's chance to bring some young blood into the party."
Martin watched election returns with his family at his Junction City home. But the 72-year candidate, who also ran for Kansas in the 1983 election, finished with no percentage of the vote.
"I think we do some good," he said, "even if we don't get elected."
MARTIN SAID he thought that the Prohibitionists developed many ideas that both the Democratic and Republican parties adopted in later years. The Social Security program, he said, was originally part of the Prohibition Party platform.
Still, Martin said, the 1982 campaign probably would be his last as a Prohibition candidate.
"I own some apartments," Martin said, "but I think I'm going to sell them and go fishing."
think I'm going to sell them and go nissin'.
But James Ward, the Libertarian Party candidate, said last night that, despite his finish with no percentage of the vote, he would definitely consider a second try in the Kansas governor's race.
"I haven't even tried to see how we did this," said Ward, who was attending a meeting at Garnett's City Hall. "But the Libertarian Party is going to win in Kansas. There no way I can just quit."
ALL THREE of the third-party candidates said they were glad they entered theubernato-
riale race. But two of the candidates, Martin and Shelton, criticized their Republican and Democratic opponents for spending too much money in the election.
"We're the penny-and-nickel people," said Martin, who estimated his total campaign expenditures would be less than $600. "I think we should limit campaign spending in some other way. I don't think it's right to spend $1.5 million in a governor's race."
Mrs. Shelton, who served as campaign treasurer for her husband, said Shelton spent about $500 on his campaign.
"Frank thinks it's pretty bad when it comes to this spending," she said. "But that's just like him — he's looking at the future for the state of Kansas and the state of the country."
Shelton agreed.
"I think I'm going to write some books after I get out of the hospital," he said. "I'd like to tell about some of the things big business does that is detrimental to our country.
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