University Daily Kansan, September 17, 1982
Aides sav debates important
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Debates between the two major gubernatorial candidates will be important in determining the election's outcome, but they probably will not win. The catapult either candidate to victory, aides to both candidates said yesterday.
Six debates between Democratic Gov. John Carlin and Republican challenger Sam Hardage have been scheduled between Sept. 25 and Oct. 23.
Two more meetings, originally set for Oct. 27, have become doubtful because of a hesitancy by the Hardage camp, Bill Hoch, Carlin's press secretary.
In drawing up their strategies, both sides said their candidate would focus during the debates on offering particular remedies to the state's problems.
But they also said the candidates would not hesitate to prod the vulnerability.
"Basically, Sam will talk about what he can do for the state," said Darrell Hardy. Hardy's press secretary, "But it will be hard for Sam to talk on the
condition of the state without talking about what Carlin has botched up."
Day said Hardage, a Wichita businessman, would be seeking to bolster support for his economic development program, centered on attracting new industry, while assailing Carlin's performance as a money manager.
Hoch said the debates would force Hardage to deliver deeper into his promises of generating economic prosperity for the poor without crippling service programs.
"We intend to run an aggressive campaign to find out whether Sam will accept this offer."
One controversy that has surfaced during this campaign is the status of the two debates scheduled on Oct. 27 in Wichita.
Day said Hardage's desire to meet as many voters as possible explained the GOP candidate's cool reception to events during the campaign's final 10 days.
But Hoch evaluated Hardage's apparent reluctance as a strategic move to seal off the candidate from opposing during the campaign's waning days.
"So far they have cancelled all debates already set up for the last two
weeks," Hoch said. "They seem to be doing that so in the last 10 days; all messages from Hardage will be disseminated without risk of spontaneous interplay between Hardage and the governor or the media."
In predicting psychological advantages, Day discounted Hardage's lack of experience in government as a liability.
"People will have a chance to see the difference between a politician and a leader," Day said. "The crucial factor is if a candidate is competent and success oriented, and Sam has excelled in everything he has done."
All but one of the debates will be televised. The only untelevised event will be Oct 22, when the candidates will meet at a statewide network, a statewide radio network.
The schedule of the other debates is: Sept. 25, Wichita, sponsored by the League of Women Voters and televised over KTVH-TV; Oct. 6, Topleka, sponsored by WIBW-TV; Oct. 16, Wichita, sponsored by KAKE-TV; Oct. 16, County Community College, sponsored by Sun Publications and televised by KCMO-TV; and Oct. 23, Manhattan, sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Ill users urge marijuana in treatment
By United Press International
ROCKVILLE, Md.-Patients who said marjmainjuana relieves their symptoms urged the government yesterday 60 losen controls on the drug, but Food and Drug Administration officials said they not yet justified by scientific evidence.
A parade of witnesses who said marijuana had helped them or their relatives relieve the symptoms of
mother of two with multiple sclerosis, told the panel she had smoked the drug for years and had not experienced any dangerous effects.
"We're delighted you've benefited from this product," replied Frederick Degnan, an FDA lawyer. "But your experiences in and of themselves are not sufficient to prove that the drug is safe and effective. If it sounds complicated and bureaucratic, it is. There are no easy answers."
glaucoma, multiple sclerosis or cancer treatments, joined by pro-marijuana groups, made their case before an FDA panel.
But the panel repeated the government position that there was no "currently accepted medical use" for marijuana, and that the drug was too dangerous to be made more easily available.
Patricia Wagner, a Waldorf, Md.,
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Commission lacks authority Illegal donations ignored
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
Two illegal campaign donations to the major party gubernatorial candidates were discovered earlier this year but ignored by the Public Disclosure Commission because it said it had no jurisdiction over two "antiquated" laws.
The commission did not report a $1,000 donation from a cable television company to Republican Sam Hardage and a $200 bank donation to Democratic Gov. John Carlin because of insurance it to keep its work on reports withidential. Carol Williams, director of the commission said yesterday.
She said that in 1974, legislators gave the commission authority to make sure campaign reports were erroneous and filed on time.
Although the illegal donations can be discovered by anyone because the reports are public information, Williams said, the commission reported only the errors it found under laws it could enforce.
But for some unknown reason, she said, lawmakers did not give the
commission jurisdiction over two old laws that could be loopholes for dishonest candidates.
Because of the recent controversy, Williams said, the commission will be making proposals to the Legislature next session to change the law.
ONE OF THE STATE laws, enacted in 1911, prohibits financial institutions, insurance companies, railroads, utilities and organizations that have the power to elect a president in or contributing to a political campaign in any way, she said.
The other law, she said, requires candidates to report who is financing their brochures and various television and newspaper political advertisement.
The commission reported the potential violations of the 1911 to Attorney General Robert Stephen in August only after a reporter discovered discrepancies in the disclosure reports, Williams said.
Bill Hoch, Carlin's press secretary,
said it was not unusual for campaign
contributors to be unaware of the law,
or for a questionable donation to
become lost among the thousands of
entries in some of the disclosures.
NEIL WOERMAN, spokesman for the attorney general, said Stephan took no legal action because it was a mistake. The cases were given in ignorance of the law.
Hoch said the institutions that contributed to the campaign were technically responsible for violating law, and not the political candidates.
Woerman said that as long as the money was paid back, the attorney general would not prosecute.
Hardage campaign officials were unavailable for comment.
Williams, who has reviewed campaign reports for five years, said the only other violation of the 191 law she knew of was a minor violation in 1977.
But he said the commission's decision not to report the potential violations was questionable.
THE OTHER LAW is usually strictly enforced by newspaper and broadcast stations when candidates call for commercial advertising from them, she said.
The attorney general has never had reason to investigate the "secrecy" statute the commission follows before it was announced had never arisen before. he said.
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