Tuesday, March 4, 1986
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could lie or get someone else to buy it for them.
"While the intent is good, I don't think it's going to do the job," he said. "It's symbolic, but if it doesn't accomplish anything, what's the value of the symbolism?"
According to Longhurst, strengths of the proposal are the opportunity for police to review gun sales and precise definitions of terms such as alcohol abuser.
Praeger said she thought she would vote for the ordinance if a few changes were made.
She said the method of keeping records of sales needed to be clarified further in the ordinance. Dealers instead of the police department should maintain the
Another controversial point, Praeger said, may be what constitutes alcohol abuse, though she said she thought the definition in the ordinance was precise.
file of sales records to avoid the potential for liability on the part of the city, she said.
According to the definition in the proposed ordinance, "'alcohol abuser" means an individual who has had two or more alcohol-related offenses, any one of which resulted in conviction by a court or treatment in an alcohol abuse facility within the past three years."
The intent of the proposed ordinance, she said, is more than preventing suicide.
it will allow time for a check," Paeregan said. "I don't think a 72-hour waiting period is unreasonable."
"It will stop impulse buying, and
Hill said, "It's a reasonable start.
"It might provide the mechanism we need to keep people from making emotional decisions when buying a gun."
He said it might be helpful to police because, for example, if they found out after the check that the buyer was a felon, they could arrest the buyer.
The Lawrence Police Department is willing to take the responsibility for enforcement, said Maj. Ron Olin, Lawrence assistant police chief.
Hayden letter causes uproar
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Statehouse Democrats were howling yesterday about a letter House Speaker Mike Hayden sent to Kansas doctors last month noting his support of a medical malpractice bill which passed the House last week and soliciting donations to his gubernatorial campaign.
could be in violation of rules.
However, he said, he talked to Kirsch yesterday and decided that the station could play the song again.
weekend after he found out the song could be in violation of rules.
It marks the second consecutive week the Statehouse has become the focus of a partisan battle over ethics, political morality and propriety. Last week, Republicans chided Lt. Gov. Tom Docking for hanging banners, hiring a band and kicking off his campaign for the governor's office in the rotunda.
This week, it's the Democrats' turn to rip Hayden, R-Alwood and candidate for the Grand Old Party's nomination for governor. Hayden is an insurance agent and is closely alligned with the medical society in its battle over a bill the insurance industry says is needed to stabilize soaring medical malpractice premiums.
The proposal, now before the Senate, places a $1 million cap on the amount victims of medical malpractice can be awarded as compensation for their injuries -- including a $250,000 limit on non-economic awards called pain-and-suffering.
chamber debated and passed the bill.
Senate Minority Leader Michael Johnston, House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis and other Democrats, including spokesmen for Gov. John Carlin and Docked, lined up to take shots at Hayden for the propriety and timing of the letter.
The controversy centers on Hayden's letter, written on official stationary, dated Feb. 17 and sent to all medical doctors in the state just a week before the lower legislative
Hayden, however, laughed off the criticism as "partisan comments" and said he'd done nothing wrong.
"I've always spoken out strongly in favor of tort reform," Hayden said. "Mike Hayden is a guy who's been fighting for the medical profession for 14 years.
"The biggest danger to the medical profession today is the excess malpractice awards, and the unlimited liability health care providers face in this state. My campaign paid the state for the stationary. And what's wrong with identifying myself as speaker. I am speaker and I'm darn proud of it."
said it was concrete evidence the politics of the malpractice issue is overwhelming the need for reasonable public policy.
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The letter casts shadows on Hayden's credibility, Barkis said, noting his own problems last session when he signed his name to a letter seeking support from two attorneys in raising money for 1986 re-election campaigns.
Barkis, of Louisburg, called the timing of the letter fortune and
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"I couldn't believe anyone would do this after seeing what I went through last session," Barkis said. "It raised questions about my own credibility and that is important to me. I'd never write another letter like that during the session because my credibility is too important to me."
Kirsch said he thought the players' names were part of the public domain and their use could not be con-
Bob Newton, station manager for KLZR-FM in Lawrence, which had been playing the song, said the station stopped playing the song last
Barkis said Hayden and others were trying to "stampede doctors" and the medical society on the issue, making it impossible to reach a compromise.
"I support your efforts to enact reform legislation this year," Hayden said in his fundraising letter to doctors. "But you and I both know that even if we're able to override Gov. Carlin's probable veto of the malpractice bill, the trial lawyers will try to undue what we accomplish.
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