State Senate Official May Vie For Governor's Seat in 1968
Glee Smith, Republican leader of the Kansas State Senate, said that in three years it is possible he will be a candidate in the gubernatorial election, at the College Young Republicans' traditional fall rally following Saturday's ball game.
"I'm not making an announcement, but certain people have talked to me about running," he said.
SMITH ADDED that since Gov. William H. Avery probably will be a candidate in the 1966 race, three years would be the "logical" election to vie for. In three years Smith will have been a member of the Senate 12 years.
Smith was one of several Republican leaders attending the
BOTH SMITH AND Groesbeck commented on the issues surrounding the repeal of section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act. As the section now stands, it permits the states to decide for themselves if they want compulsory unionization.
Smith discussed briefly an issue especially important on the state level of politics, that of reapportionment of the House of Representatives.
rally. Art Groesbeck, administrative assistant for Chester Mize, U.S. Senator for Kansas, also attended the party.
"Reapportionment is inevitable," he said, and referred to a special session of the Legislature which will meet to adopt a plan
to reaportion the state according to districts.
THE CURRENT DISPUTE over reapportionment involves whether districts should be decided upon according to population or land area.
GOV. AVERY, who was scheduled to make an appearance at the party, was not able to attend. Bob Miner, Great Bend sophomore and chairman of the KUCYR, said the governor was scheduled to address a dinner meeting (the Kansas Wildlife Federation) in Manhattan that evening, and "evidently by the time the game was over, it did not allow him time for the stop-over."
Young Democrats To Hear Corcoran
State Democratic chairman,
Tom Corcoran, will speak at the first meeting of the KU-Collegiate Young Democrats at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday in Parlor A of the Kansas Union.
A possible issue is the debate over reapportionment of the Kansas House of Representatives. The Democratic, Republican dispute involves whether to apportion the districts according to land area or population.
Corcoran has served as president of the Kansas Young Democrats, co-chairman for President Kennedy's 1960 Kansas campaign, financial director for President Johnson's 1964 Kansas campaign, precinct committeeman, county chairman, and treasurer of the State Committee.
late Gov. George Docking and possible candidate for governor in the 1966 election, will speak at a barbecue given by the Douglas County Central Democratic Committee Nov. 5 here.
Other Democratic leaders who have been invited to speak at CYD meetings throughout the year are Harold Herd, State senator from Coldwater; Joe McDowell, mayor of Kansas City; Jack Steineger, state senator; Charles Joseph, minority leader of the state senate from Potwin; Joseph Mikesic, minority leader of the Kansas House of Representatives, and Richard Bolling, majority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives.
8 Daily Kansan Monday, October 11, 1965
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