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I hursday, June 24, 1993
Page 2
Opinion
Job allegations haunt Hutchison in Washington
By Lyndell Williams
Texas Press Assn.
AUSTIN — Facing allegations
that she promised a job to a for-
mer campiagn opponent in ex-
change for a political endorse-
ment, newly sworn U.S. Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison went to
Washington, D.C., with more
than the nation’s business on her
mind.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
received a tip last week that Hous-
ton businessman Mike Graham
provided Travis County prosecu-
tors with testimony he negotiated
the job-for-endorsement swap in
telephone visits with Hutchison
and her husband, Dallas bond
lawyer Ray Hutchison; and for-
mer San Saba County judge, Tom
Bowden, who lost a bid for the
office of state treasurer in the
1990 Democratic primary.
Bowden endorsed Hutchison
in her successful election race
against Democrat Nikki Van
Hightower. Soon after the elec-
tion, Bowden accepted a £31,000
a-year job in the treasurer’s
office.
Graham Under Indictment
Graham is under felony indict-
ment, having been charged with
violating competitive bidding re-
quirements on a private prison
project in Pecos County.
According to a report in the
Austin American-Statesman,
Ray Hutchison worked with Gra-
ham on the financing of six pri-
vate prisons before the deal Gra-
ham says he brokered between
the Hutchisons and Bowden. One
of the six prisons was in San Saba
Bowden has denied allegations
for a job-for-endorsement agree-
ment, but the investigation is
underway, and the Travis County
District Attorney’s Office is re-
viewing Graham’s written testi-
mony and poring through treas-
ury department tapes, computer
logs and employee records.
“Potty Parity” Bill Signed
It was bill signing time in the
governor’s office last week. And
one bill Gov. Ann Richards inked
was the “potty parity” measure,
which requires new public and
private facilities to have a 2 to 1
ratio of women’s to men’s res-
trooms.
Attending the bill-signing cere-
mony was Denise Wells, the
woman who inspired the legisla-
tion. Wells was arrested in Hous-
ton in 1990 for using a men’s res-
troom to avoid long lines for the
• Allow businesses with
0uee to 50 employees to band
together to buy health insurance
and transfer it when employees
change jobs.
• Provide £750,000 for the
Texas Department of Health to
establish a birth defects registry
and help Mexioo do the same.
• Promote alternative fuel
use by creating the Alternative
Capital Highlights
women’s rooms.
Richards called a sponsor of the
bill, Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, D-
Austin, “my hero.”
“I thank you, and my two
daughters thank you, and my
three granddaughters thank
you,” she said.
Richards also signed into law
bills that;
Fuels Conversion Council and
Alternative Fuel Use Fund.
• Raise from £6 to £10 a day
the penalty for contractors on
state jobs who fail to pay their
workers the prevailing wage.
• Reduce medical malprac-
tice suits and hold .down insur-
ance costs through reforms in
state medical malpractice laws.
Student Violence Rampant
Nearly one in five Texas
teachers responding to a survey
released last week reports ex-
periencing a direct threat of per-
sonal violence as student misbe-
havior in public schools has be-
come rampant.
Of the 1,447 teachers surveyed
by the Texas Federation of
Teachers, more than 83 percent
said student discipline and be-
havior problems are significant
both in and out of the classroom.
More than 35 percent said they
had a significant problem within
their rooms.
“We got some rather shocking
responses,” said John Cole, presi-
dent of the 20,000 member TFT.
“The bad news is that if you are a
classroom teacher in some
places, you run the risk of being
assaulted in your classroom.”
Of the teachers surveyed:
• 53 percent reported an
assault on students;
• 20 percent reported an
assault by a student on another
student armed with a deadly
weapon in the 1992-93 school
year; and
• 8 percent reported an
assault on teachers.
Gov. ConnaDy Laid to Rest
Former Gov. John B. Connally
was laid to rest last week in the
State Cemetery in Austin.
Connally, a three-term gov-
ernor, died June 15 of pulmonary
fibrosis in Houston’s Methodist
Hospital after a three-week bout
with pneumonia. He was 76.
Notables attending the funeral
included former president
Richard Nixon, former first lady
Lady Bird Johnson, Treasury
Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, U.S.
Rep. Jake Pickle and Rev. Billy
Graham.
Eulogies were delivered by Mrs.
Johnson, Rep. Pickle, Rev. Gra-
ham and John B. Connally III, the
former governor’s eldest son.
Connally was the 11th gov-
ernor buried in the State Cemet-
ery.
Letters to the Editor
Economic strategy
needs support
My Fellow Americans,
On February 17,1 presented to
our country a national economic
strategy that will create jobs, in-
crease incomes through invest-
ments in our future, and signifi-
cantly reduce the deficit. This
plan is tough and it requires real
contributions from all Amer-
icans. This plan is now being con-
sidered in the U.S. Senate. The
Senate’s vote will determine
whether we will invest in the eco-
nomic future of our children and
grandchildren or continue with
the failed economic policies of
the past 12 years.
This plan will improve Amer-
ican’s long-term economic
strength, the results of which we
are already beginning to see.
Once it became clear that we
would take responsibility for
bringing our deficit down, in-
terest rates started to drop. If we
can keep these interest rates
down for a year, business analysts
say well put over £100 billion
back into the economy - lower-
ing rates on consumer, car, col-
lege, home, and business loans.
This means more jobs for ordin-
ary Americans, higher business
profits, better consumer confi-
dence, and more consumer
spending -- all of which streng-
then our economy.
Last week, unemployment fell
below 7 percent for the first time
in a year and a half. In just the last
four months, 755,000 new jobs
were created. And last month, as
mortgage rates hit a 20-year low,
new home sales reached a seven-
year high. We’re moving in the
right direction. If we get our
priorities right and our govern-
ment house in order, more people
will be able to order houses for
themselves. If we drive interest
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rates down, jobs and investments
will keep going up.
Understanding the impact of
this plan on their constituents,
the U.S. House of Representa-
tives has acted courageously and
decisively to approve our econo-
mic growth plan. It’s time for the
Senate to do the right thing as
well.
This plan is balanced and fair.
It will cut the deficit by £500 bil-
lion over the next five years -- the
largest reduction program every
proposed. We’ve included £250
billion in spending cuts and more
than 200specific program reduc-
tions.
We’re also proposing to raise
some taxes. But this time, unlike
the last 12 years, we’re doing it in
afairway. Seventy-five percent of
the new money comes from peo-
ple with incomes above £100,000
— people who can better afford it,
and whose tax rates went down in
the 1980s. Middle-class Amer-
icans are asked to make a modest
contribution in the form of a
broad-based energy tax.
While nobody wants to pay
additional taxes, the energy levy
will add only a few dollars per
month to household expenses.
For the working poor, we want to
put in place the first big block of
our welfare reform program. For
the first time in American his-
tory, people who work 40 hours a
week and have children in their
homes will be lifted above the
poverty line.
Very soon, the Senate will con-
sider my plan for deficit reduc-
tion and economic growth. There
are core principles I believe the
Senate should honor when it con-
siders this plan. We must cut the
deficit by at least £100 billion
over the next five years. There
should be no increases in taxes
without real cuts in spending.
The wealthy must pay their fair
share so that we can minimize the
burden on the middle class and
the working poor. We must re-
form the welfare system and cre-
ate incentives for people to move
from welfare to work. Finally, we
must rebuild the American eco-
nomy by investing in education
and training, new technologies,
defense conversion and business
incentives.
The changes I am asking Con-
gress to approve will not be easy,
but our living standards are at
stake and we must rise to the
occasion. This is the promise of
America - a community at its
best provides a growing measure
of prosperity for everyone who
works hard and plays by the rules.
Our challenge is to fulfill that
promise by ensuring that as we
expand opportunity and growth,
everyone has a shot to earn their
share.
The time is now. I hope you will
support the bold changes we must
make in order to strengthen our
economy and ensure a strong and
prosperous country for future
generations of Americans.
Bill Clinton
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City Sales and Use Tax Comparison Summary - June 1993
Comparable
nn Patricio County
Aransas Pass
Gregory
Net Payment
This Period
$28,908.76
$3,276.68
Payment
Prior Year
$36,112.04
$1.969.78
9b Change
-19.959b
66.359b
1993 Payments
To Date
$246,847.56
$21,80932
1992 Payments
To Date
$222,464.93
$19,718.47
9b Change
10.969b
10.609b
Ingleside
$15,196.45
$15,346.17
-0.989b
$131,421.95
$116,215.16
13.099b
Mathis
$22,092.23
$19,666.02
12.349b
$125,791.95
$121,338.71
3.679b
Odem
$3,186.66
$3,51036
-9.229b
$2736237
$26,171.76
4.179b
Portland
$42360.52
$43,941.09
-3.609b
$297,929.35
$297,293.41
0.219b
Sinton
$16,443.24
$18309.92
-9.709b
$126,872.68
$144,010.51
-11.909b
Taft
$5,116.69
$5,165.12
-0.949b
$44,03233
$42.27936
4.159b
County Total
$136.58133
$143,920.50
- 5.109b$1.021.967.43
$969,492.21
3.289b
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