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Page 4, The Hondo Anvil Herald, Thursday, September 22,1994
More circulation than any other newspaper in the United States--
that's what they say about The Wall Street Journal. And on September
12, the Journal took note of the rally held in Austin, and we would like
to quote part of what they had to say. It won’t be anything you haven't
heard in these parts, or anything you haven't read in The Anvil Herald
for a long time now, but it is nice to have some big time support. And
now we quote:
Review & Outlook
Endangered Property Rights
Ginton Administration officials are puzzling over the President's
recent dive in popularity; his approval ratings have fallen 15 points in
the past eight months. One reason not likely to ever come into focus
around this White House is that Mr. Clinton's regulatory policies are
alienating large numbers of constituency groups. Whether it's small-
business owners, gun collectors, anti-HUD protesters or people who
drive to work in urban areas, this administration has picked fights with
a whole lot of folks. But perhapes the most angry of all are property
owners who feel they are being unfairly deprived of the use of their
land.
Last month, coordinated rallies were held in three states to protest
overzealous enforcement of the Endangered Species Act. In Califor-
nia, a Taiwanese immigrant farmer faces a year in prison and $300,000
in fines for killing five kangaroo rats while tilling his land. Residents
of Idaho's Bruneau Valley are fighting the listing of a pin-hcad-size
snail that differs from other snails only in that it has a largcr-than-
normal sexual organ.
The most vociferous demonstration was in Austin, the Texas state
capital. More than 3,000 marchers protested plans by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service to declare 800,000 acres in a 33-county area as
"critical habitat" for a migratory songbird called the golden-cheeked
warbler.
Many farmers whose roots in the area go back 120 years say they will
be prevented from doing anything that could be viewed as "harass-
ment" of the warbler, including building new fences. Dorothy Deas of
the Fish and Wildlife Service says the agency's enforement is "reason-
able and prudent." However, she acknowledges that "harassment"
would include chasing away a warbler that took up residence on the
front porch of a farmhouse.
A group called Take Back Texas i- lighting back and has support
from many stale officials.
The reason they are concerned is e.uiiipliiied m the case of David
Trotter. He and some partners wanted to tutu 1, loc acres into residen-
tial housing. Fish and Wildlife officials agreed, but first took 765 acres
as a habitat for the golden-checked warbler and cave bugs. In exchange
for allowing development on the remaining 339 acres, the feds de-
manded the landowners "mitigate" the harm they would cause by
buying 873 acres of additional Fish and Wildlife habitat. So the
agency's idea of "reasonable and prudent" regulation includes forcing
a landowner to hand over 1,638 acres of land to the government before
he can develop the 339 acres he has left. This sounds like a form of
bureaucratic extortion.
Secretary Babbitt's office has a two-pronged defense of his policies.
On the one hand, it insists he supports property rights. But it also lashes
out at property owners whenever they try to defend thosecrights. Last
week, his assistant Kevin Sweeney argued that the efforts of Interior's
Texas critics, "with no acknowledgement of the greater needs of the
community," could deny "two centuries of law and tradition" on land
use limits. "If this group has its way, those limits will be gone, and we'll
pay a huge price: pom shops can be built across the street from
churches, and liquor stores can be put in next to junior high schools,"
he claimed. Mr. Sweeney's statements weren't some off-the-cuff re-
mark. They came in an op-ed he sent to the Austin Amcrican-States-
man.
The truth is that the Texas landowners only want to restore a
reasonable balance in the regulation of their property.
In Texas alone, 83 species have been placed on the Endangered
Species List: another 200 species are candidates for the list. The
phenomenon we are witnessing here is that when no clear limits are
placed on a government's authority, it is very I ikely to run out of control
eventually. If Washington decides it needs land to preserve "the greater
needs of the community," it should acquire it justly: by paying for it.
—Wall Street Journal
Where to Contact Your Elected Officials
President - President William J. Clinton, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave„ Washington, D.C. 20500, Comment line 1-202-456-1111
U.S. Senator - The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison, 703 Hart Senate Office
Building, Washington. D.C. 20510, 1-202-224-5922
U.S. Senator - The Honorable Phil Gramm. 370 Russell Senate Office Buildiny,
Washington. D.C. 20510,1-202-224-2934
Congressman 23rd DIsL - The Honorable Henry Bonilla, 1529 Longworth
House Office Building, Washington. D.C. 20515-4323, (202) 225-4511, San
Antonio - (210) 697-9055, FAX (210) 697-9185
Governor - Governor Ann Richards, Box 12428, Austin TX 78711
1-800-252-9600, (512) 463-2000
8tate Senator Diet 21 - The Honorable Judith Zaffirini, Texas Senate, P.O. Box
12068 Capitol Station. Austin TX 78711, (512) 463-0121, P.O. Box 627, Laredo
TX 78042, (210)722-2293
State Senator DIsL 25 (our former district) - The Honorable Bill Sims, Texas
Senate. P.O. Box 12068 Capitol Station, Austin TX 78711,(512) 463-0125
Box 410, San Angelo TX 76902, (915) 658-5852 FAX (915) 655-2255
State Representative Dlst. 43 - The Honorable Pedro Nieto, Texas House of
Representatives, Austin TX 78769, (512) 463-0742; 108 South Getty. Uvalde TX
78801, (210) 278-9106
Attorney General - The Honorable Dan Morales, P. O. Box 12548, Austin TX
78711-2548, (512) 463-2100
Comptroller -The Honorable John Sharp, Lyndon B. Johnson State Office Bldg.,
Austin TX 78771,1-800-252-3555 f
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. Bob
Bullock underwent heart bypass
surgery Sept. 16, three days
after greeting more than 1,000
supporters who contributed more
than $1.5 million toward his re-
election campaign.
Eight of 11 Republican state
senators running for re-election
attended the Austin fund-raiser
for Bullock, a Democrat, who is
serving his first term as lieutenant
governor.
“The fact that you’re here, that
you’re my friends, I will never for-
get it as long as I live,” Bullock
told the conspicuous eight senators:
Teel Bivins, Amarillo; Jerry Patter-
son, Pasadena; Chris Harris, Ar-
lington; Don Henderson, Houston;
Jane Nelson, Flower Mound; Bill
Ratliff, Mount Pleasant; David Sib-
ley, Waco and Jeff Wentworth, San
Antonio.
A Bullock spokesman told The
Dallas Morning News that the
Texas Republican Party warned
those senators not to attend the
annual reception for Bullock orrisk
censure by the party’s executive
committee.
Bivins said he and other legis-
lators received complimentary tick-
ets to the event, and that he would
support Bullock’s opponent, Tex
Lezar, on the November ballot.
Lezar, however, said he thought
it “inappropriate” for Republicans
to attend, and accused those who
attended of being “afraid” of
Bullock.
Bill Price, president of the “pro-
life” group, Texans United for
Life, said the GOP senators who
attended “betrayed” their party and
“engaged in political treachery and
back-stabbing of the worst sort.”
In the Morning News report,
Patterson said he respects Bullock,
and “Whether you agree with him
or not, he does provide leadership
for this state.”
Bullock, angered by the threats,
sent a letter to all GOP senators
telling 'them that he would not
be offended if they skipped the
reception.
“My respect for you won’t be
diminished one bit if your political
safety prevents you from attending
this event,” he said in his letter.
Grover Wants on Nov. Ballot
Henry C. “Hank” Grover has
filed an emergency motion in U.S.
District Court for a restraining or-
der prohibiting the Texas Secretary
of State from printing Nov. 8 elec-
tion ballots without his name on
them.
Grover, a former state senator
from Houston, who ran for the
U.S. Senate as a Republican in
1984, also wants the state election
law declared unconstitutional be-
cause, he said, it is “specifically
designed to keep the name of any
prospective independent candidate
for statewide office from appearing
on the general election ballot.”
According to the Texas Election
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndell Williams & Ed Sterling
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Code, an application must be filed
not later than the 30th day after
the runoff primary election day, and
the candidate must secure a petition
signed by 1 percent of the total
number of people who voted in the
last governor’s race.
By the 1 percent rule, Grover
needed more than 38,000 people
to sign his petition’, and the
law also required he collect the
signatures during the 30-day period
that followed the March 8 primary
election. With that deadline long
past, Grover decided to seek relief
through the federal court system.
But Ann McGeehan, director
of the election legal section of
the Secretary of State’s office,
said Secretary of State Ron Kirk
certified candidates on Sept. 12 and
counties are now authorized to print
the ballots.
Negative Ads Hurt Elections
Attack ads may be helpful at
cutting down an opponent, but
they also cut down the turnout at
election polls.
Secretary of State Ron Kirk,
Texas’ chief election officer, blamed
political campaign professionals
putting the negative slant on races
for public office.
“1 think they are hurting voter
turnout,” Kirk said. “They can
justify it because they can say,
‘Our job is to get somebody
elected.’ They don’t care about
voter turnout.”
Kirk estimated about 9 million
Texans will be registered to vote by
the Oct. 9 deadline, and that about
50 percent of those would actually
vote.
Secondhand Smoke in Prisons
Texas prison inmates’ complaints
- and lawsuits - about secondhand
cigarette smoke are getting the
attention of the Tfexas Board of
Criminal Justice.
More than half of Texas 92,000
convicts smoke, and though TBCJ
chairman Carol \fonce said she
didn’t think a smoking ban was
under consideration, she did say
that establishing designated smok-
ing areas might be the answer.
Prison system spokesman Charles
Brown said smoking policies vary
from prison to prison, including
no smoking, smoking in designated
areas only, and smoking in most ar-
eas.
Other Highlights
■ Former U.S. Treasurer Catalina
Vasquez Villalpando was sentenced
last week to four months in prison
for evading taxes and obstructing
justice. Villalpando, 54, a native of
San Marcos, pleaded guilty earlier
in the year to three felony charges,
which included conspiring to hide
outside income while she served in
the Bush administration.
■ Eighty-six percent of Texans
say the Legislature should allow
voters to decide whethef the
state legalizes casino gambling,
according to a new opinion poll by
the Houston-based Tarrance Group.
The survey also found that 52
percent of respondents said they
favor allowing a limited number of
casinos.
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Congressman
Henry Bonilla .
23rd District, Texas
Applying past lessons to Haiti
The last few weeks have been ex- out U.S. experiences in Vietnam and
tremely tense, as the U.S. debated, Somalia should have taught us les-
initiated, and then halted an invasion sons for why we must have a well-
of Haiti. As I stated months ago, I do designed strategy. Furthermore, the
not see any reason for us to send last time we sent troops to Haiti in
troops to that tiny nation. Although an 1915, they remained there for 19
all-out invasion was avoided at the years. We must make sure that won't
11th hour, I continue to have concerns happen again,
about sending in our armed forces. The Monroe Doctrine, which has
particularly under UN. command, guided U.S. foreign policy since
There are many lessons from the past 1823, states our opposition to military
that should be remembered and ap- forces from the outside coming into
plied to this situation, as well as future the Western Hemisphere. I wrote to
foreign policy concerns. the President on July 28, the 79th
First, we must always be sure there anniversary of our last Haiti invasion,
is a clear national interest before we that inviting nations such as Israel,
send our troops into combat. For ex- Poland, and Bangladesh to send their
ample, part of the rationale far getting troops to Haiti clearly violates the
involved in Haiti is the gross human Monroe Doctrine. The President re-
rights violations taking place at the sponded that since the U.N. had ap-
hands of the military coup leaders, proved action in Haiti, it would not be
While it has been heart-wrenching to violation of the Doctrine. I disagree,
see the pictures of brutally-murdered Our nation should be governed by
Haitians, the vast majority of nations 12J5L policy, not UN. policy. That is
around the world unfortunately have particularly troubling since our
similar human rights abuses occuring troops are now going to Haiti under
within their borders. But if human the U.N. flag instead of the U.S. flag,
rights violations alone are reason to Let us hope and pray that any
invade a country, should the U.S. be Americans sent to Haiti, or any other
prepared to take action in every other part of the world, know precisely
part of the world? Clearly not. In- what they are to accomplish and how
stead, we should base our decisions long they will have to stay. Our mili-
on whether a nation poses a legitimate tary is strong, but that is not enough to
threat to our national security. guarantee victory. We must also have
Second, if we do decide that a na- a clear purpose and strong leadership
tion poses a threat to our security, we to succeed. God bless America and
should not send our troops in unless the brave men and women in our
we have dearly-defined goals and a armed forces who stand ready to de-
firm timeline for getting our troops fend her.
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