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Thursday, February 1, 1990
Pag* 2
Opinion
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AFL-CIO fails to endorse candidate
Bv L>T»dell Williams
Texas Press Assn
AUSTIN-Thc Texas AFL-CIO
dominated the political stage last
week, hut adjourned its state con-
vention without endorsing any
candidates, a first in Texas his-
tory
Now onlookers are watching to
see if this odd move will make
labor more of a power this elec-
tion, or less
According to labor union rules,
members cannot campaign for a
candidate after the convention
endorses his her opponent
No endorsement this year
means the entire delegation is not
Testing in
process for
census jobs
By Juliet K. Wenger
Coastal Bend Council
of Governments
A pool of temporary jobs will be
opened up the Coastal Bend re-
gion for men and women with
clerical skills These will be jobs
with the U.S. Census, in all. 700of
them Of these 600 will be field
personnel and others working in
offices
Testing for the jobs is now
being carried out four times a
week at the Corpus Christi dis-
trict office. Suite 400,5155 Flynn
Parkway Tests are given T uesday
and Thursday at 10 a.m and 2
p.m The test requires about two
hours Only usual clerical skills
are required, not those of a stat-
istician
' PanrSmith is in charge of test-
ing The telephone number of the
census office is 878-0100. Local
information about the census is
also available through the Coun-
cil of Governments. Larger com-
munities of the Coastal Bend
have established census count
offices which also have informa-
tion available
The census will be one of the big
events of 1990 April 1 is census
day In an outreach program, the
census office makes available
community awareness work-
shops. which can be requested by
local governments or organiza-
tions
Workshops make people aware
of why it is important to their own
lives, businesses and communi-
ties to get an accurate count in the
census
Of great importance is that re-
districting depends on it. Those
who find it to their advantage to
keep district lines as they are now
or to change those lines can look
to the census
Census figures, when they are
available, can be obtained in what
are described as user-defined
areas. For instance, figures can be
compiled that show the economic
status, ages of residents or what-
ever demographics are wanted
for a school district, a neighbor-
hood, a water district, an econo-
mic development zone or what-
ever.
These figures can show where a
playground is needed, where ser-
vices for older people would be
most convenient, what price
range of products would sell best
in the area, where certain health
services would be in demand
This has been available before in
large cities but this is the first year
that it is to be had in medium
sized or rural areas.
If you receive the short form to
be filled out for the oensus, you
wfi be asked to give characteris-
tics of your family and home. If
you receive the long form, you
will also answer questions about
your anoaatry, occupation, and
much more detail about your re-
sidence. One of the other wifi ar-
rive in the mail before April I. If
you don’t return K by mall, some-
one will call at your home to en-
courage you to do ao.
hitched to any candidate, or even
any party, and can work for any
campaign, except Mattox for gov-
ernor
Rules say they can’t campaign
for Mattox, since he sought and
narrowly lost the official endorse-
ment. Mattox supporters say they
will ignore the rule
Until now, labor has always en-
dorsed a Democratic slate
selected by labor’s political com-
mittee and run up the flag pole for
membership approval
Realistically, when Texas AFL-
CIO president Joe Gunn said he
didn't want Democrats to take
labor for gran ted, he wasn’t think-
ing of switching parties.
But some Republicans made
overtures, and the door is open if
renegade organizations want to
cross over.
No Loaves At All
The unusual convention re-
sults left rw’o top candidates with
half-a-loaf and most candidates
with no official loaf at all:
■ State Treasurer Ann
Richards claimed a moral victory
in stopping Mattox short of the
two-thirds needed for en-
dorsement;
■ Mattox, who won 58 per-
cent of delegate support, scored a
majority victory and boasted that
Richards and former Gov. Mark
White are now reducted to a “stop
Mattox” mentality:
■ Potential backfire:
Richards may be taking some
back room heat, because Mattox
and others blame her for closing
down the convention before
members could endorse Demo-
cratic stalwarts like Jim Hightow-
er, Garry Mauro and John Sharp.
If enough union members de-
fect to the GOP this year, the heat
could turn into hits.
After Mattox lost the roll count
vote, he said he was negotiating
for “something less than endorse-
ment,” which the Richards fac-
tion squelched by rushing to ad-
journ the convention.
■ Among the losers: White’s
former aide John Odam and Har-
ris County Treasurer Nikki Van
Hightower, who had won the
committee’s approval ic. attor-
ney general and treasurer, re-
spectively.
• Two gainers: San Antonio
state Rep Dan Morales, candi-
date for AG, who gets another
shot at wooing union votes away
from Odam; and Armando Guit-
tierrez, candidate for treasurer
against Van Hightower.
White's support showed him a
minor player while Mattox and
Richards fought it out, even
though one pollster had White the
frontrunner.
But if White makes the run-off
and seeks a deal with the third
place finisher, he won’t have to
hurdle animosity.
Black Vote Victory
Mattox scored a small victory
in wooing black voters when
death row inmate Clarence
Brandley was released on bond
from prison.
Civil rights activists have
argued for years that Brandley, a
black janitor convicted of rape-
murder 10 years ago, was rail-
roaded in a racist trial.
Before Christmas, an appeals
court ordered a new trial for
Brandley, but he languished in
prison over the holidays until
Mattox said he should go free on
bail.
Coincidentally, on the day
Brandley walked free, a Brandley
co-worker and key witness in the
trial was charged with sexually
assaulting two young girls
Hobby, Lewis Rip Agency
Lt. Gov Bill Hobby and Speak-
er Gib Lewis had sharp criticism
for state health department offi-
cials whom they contend have
grossly mismanaged a program to
aid seriously ill and handicapped
children
Robert Bernstein, State Health
Commissioner, said an emergen-
cy M2.5 million is needed or he’ll
have to reduce aid to thousands of
youngsters
Hobby told officials “to clean
up their act and report back,” and
not to make cutbacks yet
“Year after year, the Legisla-
ture gets blackmailed hv some
agencies who do not use their
budgeted funds properly,” Lewis
said
Parks Offical Quits
Longtime Parks and Wildlife
director Charles Travis resigned
after 11 years with the agency
Travis, 53, was first employed
in state government 30 years ago
in the governor’s budget office.
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Let's not put all
economic apples in
homeport basket
Naval Station Inglcsidc has again survived the axe in
the proposed budget for the United States. The feelings
that we all had over the past weekend perhaps could be
collected in the phrase, “What will we do now?”, as we
waited and worried.
Last year, we went through the same thing at budget
time but evidently did not learn much from it These
kinds of scares should firmly plant in our minds the need
for not putting all of our economic apples in one barrel.
We need to be alert to ways to broaden our economy and
not depend solely on the United States Navy or any other
single entity.
The impact of the Navy and related civilian personnel
will be great and it is good news for us that NSI has been
spared in the cuts, but what of next«year and the year
after that and so on? We can look at our friends in the
neighboring community of Beeville who are looking at
cuts in the Chase Field compliment after over 40 years.
In those 40 years Chase Field has certainly become
Beeville’s largest employer.
We are not out of the woods yet since the budget has
not been adopted. We do not know what kind of congres-
sional negotiations compromises will take place before
the budget is finalized.
We do know that our Texas Delegation in Washington
will be on our side and that they will hold their ground as
long as possible to make sure that Naval Station Ing-
leside and its impact to our area is not lost.
But shouldn’t we be looking at other areas of economic
development? Should we allow ourselves to get “too
comfortable” again?
Letters to the editor
Dear Editor,
Sixteen years ago Congress
created “The Endangered Spe-
cies Act” and, as usual, let it run
wild. Now as a consequence, to
save a turtle, in the near future we
may see our shrimp with a famil-
iar label~“Made in Taiwan.”
Earlier ourgovernment made it
perfectly legal to murder the
alive, but yet unborn, little chil-
dren. In perspective, if the hu-
man (?) race is allowed to endan-
ger its own existence on earth,
how many turtles will we need in
the future?
Can you picture this?—A sweet
young thing, dropping off at the
“clinic” to have an abortion, on
her way to a meeting of the “Save
Our Turtles" club.
What morals and priorities we
now have! And what a brilliant
law making body!!
Do you remember the snail dar-
ters ? That little boo-boo cost us
millions and THEN they found
out they weren’t scarce at all!
Now they begin Act II of the
E.S. A. farce, and as any dang fool
knows, the turtles can neither be
counted nor classed as really use-
ful to any sensible degree.
•v-jras-- * •»•. ■***«’OP**-*
; | *■ y. ,
W-a-a-y back, -another
erroneous report came out. The
Powers that be decreed that the
DODO bird was officially extinct.
Well now, I believe the DODO
birds have made a miraculous re- ’
turn, and are all comfortably en-
sconced in one building in
Washington, D C. They also be-
lieve that the more legislation
they pass, the better off we will be.
I want to ASK you voters a ques-
tion WHO PUT ’EM THERE? I
can TELL you one thing. Only
you voters, and you who write or
call your so-called, alleged “Rep-
resentatives”, can cause it to
change. I never could figure out
why voters and their n emories
always part company at election
time!
I suggest that Congress creat a
“For Extinction” list, with only
two entries.
No. 1-The cause of most our
problems, the DEM-LIBS (Demo-
crat-Liberals), and then,
No. 2-The Endangered Species
Act.
Frank Leuter
Summerdale, A1
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