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"If you're pro-caoice, ypu'd
vote ·no·,· he said. "If you're
pro-life, you'd vote "yes·"
.He added th t if voters un-
o derstand the issue and get past
the wording. the proposal will
carry easily.
The proposal's approval
depe on wh· ch side gets to
the public first and most eflec­
tWely, he deled.
Val Osowski, press secretary
for the Peop 's Cam� for
Cloke, agreed that voter ron­
fusion has been a critical i ue.
The $1.2 million campaign is
aimed at educatio to help
voters make an informed
decision, she said
"The information has been
out for a long time but not in a
concentrated form available to
public," Osowski said
While the People's Cam­
paign is utilizing free media, na­
tional represent tives and
hou e parties, its opponen ts
have org nized what Listing
called "classic camapaiga"
Th Committee to End Tax­
Funded Abortion . h s
developed television adverti -
iDf. billboards and yard signs to
raISe voter awareness.
"The distiac:tioa is that Right
to Life of MichipD wiD out­
spend us 3 to 1 in the campaign,·
o 0 ski said. "We s im ply
haven't beea i existence fo 12
years. Right to Life bas a net-
ork and they have us out­
peopled and outfiaanced. But
it' not a case of lac of or­
ganization or apathy on our
part"
The proposal's opponen
also have voiced complaints
about the Committee to Eod
T - ded Abortion's adYer­
tisiDg campaign, calling it unfair
and disaiminatory.
Welborn called the Commit­
tee to End Tax-Funded Abor­
tions dvertising "right 0 tar­
get, " adding there i DO meri to
comp ints that it is decept .
ONLY EDICAID AF·
FEcTED
Rep. David Hollister, D­
f .ansing. . d duiing a news con­
ference that the Committee to
End- Tax-Funded Abortions
failed to note that Proposal
A uld end only Medicaid-
funded bortions.
About 1.2 million state
emp yees still ould be eligible
for abortion through state­
funded health care plans.
"That's one in every nine
Michigan women: Hollister 0
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v e
"There is a real drive 0 in
prevention," Richardson id,
"We feel t . re need
to ddress the prob m."
Ridwdsoo said that 50 per­
cent of the IIIIODCY oomcs in
from the Office of Substance
Abuse Service i spent in
educating people about the
dangers of drug bose. I
The o� ge nearly 20 per­
cent of its funding &om federal
sources, and therefore its
programs are subject to "chan­
ges in polities," Jarl Nischa�
chief of policy, programs and
evaluation . d,
The te Office of Substance
Ab Services· designed so
that nearly all of the money .
spent at the local level. Eighteen
regional coordinating Agencies
oversee the 594 public and
private sub ranee abuse
programs, ith more than
400,(8) kers and volunteers
statewide who recei 92 per­
ce t of the fundin2.
It is not good that more I
"dramatic" cocaine problems
and t gh political solutions
have bee pushing aleoholi m
aw y from th public eye, Eaton
said.
"Somehow candidate for
political office seem to arrive at
a conclusion that all th voters
o want tough law ," he said "I
don't believe that i t th
o peop are asking for."
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'The Black community is now and always has been the consci�nce of America. 988 is .
no different. It is the African-American people 0 who led the way 10 Reverend Jesse Ja�k­
son's historic run for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, and who are leading
the way in y independent campaign for the Presidency.
"Black Amenca, sick to death of the insensitivity of both political.parti to the rise
of racism, is rising up again. We are ready to say NO to those parties- d to stand up
for the Black Agenda, for the Rainbow vision and for democracy. The �moc�a�, �ho ar­
rogantly expect our vote while giving us nothing in return, are now trying to intimidate
us into voting for them. .
"New York Daily News columnist Earl Caldwell exposed th Democrats' intimidation .
tactics last wee when he wrote, 'The Democrats have perfected a scare messag they ..
ta to the Black community. That message tells Black voters they cannot afford another
Republican administration.' I
o ''But says Caldwell, in 1988 there is Fulani, which is why 'a lot of Democra worry
that this time around the "boogey man card" alone may not be enough to put own a
rebellion among BI ick voters who are tired of being taken for gr�ted.'
''We are tired of being taken for 0 granted. To the Democrats we say: 'You will n� tell us
who to vote for!' We will once again be the conscience of our c ntry. And we will lead
all people out of slavery in the white supremacist parties to poli al independence and
pOwer."
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are
need·
The People' Ca�", sup-
porters also oont that the
propoW . acMe
health care oosts & S6 miIIioa
to about S27.7 milIioa pea- year,
if 20 per of opt
to carry the � to term· d
of aborting it. 0
But Listiag said the jority
of the men fiad private
funds for bortio or use
Medicaid- funded eoatracep­
tives.
Right to Life of Michigan
brought the . to the stale
Legislature through initiatM:
petition in February 1987.
Michigan's constitutioll
legislators to vote on the peti­
tion without ending to the
governor's office final ap­
proval
Since 1978, former Gov. Wil­
liam Milliken and Gov. lames
Blanchard have oed 17 t­
tempts to proh i Me dicaid­
funded abortions.
The House and Senate
passed the initia .ive petition in
June 1987. After filing an unsuc­
cessful suit to stop the ban from
taking immediate effect, the
People's Cam� for Choice
submitted 229,128 signatures to
the Board of State Canvassers in
March.
ALCOHOL ABUSE WORSE
State . de, officia said, 75
percent of the 195,(8) people
treated annually are admitted
because of alcohol abuse, com­
pared to only 3 percent ad­
mitted because of cocaine ad­
diaio .
Lori Kirby, assistant coor­
dinator of the agency that ad­
ministers to Barry, Branch,
Kalamazoo and St. Joseph
counties said cocaine use -is up
in that area, but the f.gures for
alcoholism treatment may be
even higher than the state
average.
The Human Resource
Commission is aka heavily in­
volved in the other aspect of
drug abuse services: prevention.
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