Thursday, March 18,1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY . P.. ,$age - -- PRIMARY LOSER SEEKS REELECTION: Harris criticized b left right """""'"rr Ernst asks write-ins By TOM WIEDER Lewis Ernst is running an in- dependent write-in campaign for# mayor after his defeat in the Re-} publican primary by Jack Garris. Althiough he received only aboutr 300 votes then, he.says he is run- ning because, "I want to be may- >. or." Ernst sets lower taxes at the top of his list of campaign pro- posals. He feels city officials are overpaid, the police force should be cut, the mayor should per- sonally handle the work of the Human Rela- tions Department and Ozone House should be eliminated. "It brings more people I don't want to come to Ann Arbor and doesn't do the job it's claim- ing," he says of the drug rehabilitation center., Vehemently opposed to U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, Ernst believes the mayor can help end the war by lending his support and influence to local :s peace groups. He. claims that neither Mayor Robert Harris nor Garris are wholeheartedly against the war. Although he wants to cut the police force to save tax dollars, he feels it should be more effec- tive in controlling crime. "What I really want to do is cut the crime rate in Ann Arbor so it's not much more than Dear- born," Ernst says. He claims this can be done by improving the force's efficiency. Ernst has mixed feelings about student par- ticipation in Ann Arbor government. He sup- ports students' right to vote in city elections but doubts that they are familiar enough with local issues to make wise decisions. "Students have got to be more law-abiding," Ernst adds. REPUBLICAN NOMINEE: Garris blasts permissiveness (Continued from Page 1) down the police department every time it gets a chance." Much of the criticism stems from "permissive" police hand- ling of incidents involving Uni- versity demonstrations as well as the generally expanding crime rate in the city which his oppo- sition blames on restrictions on the police. Harris denies handicapping the police and cites the fact that the police allocation is the most rap- idly increasing area of his budget as evidence of his concern. Conservative opposition over 'Harris'stands on the issues of drugs and pornography has also been strong.! Because of his support of an ordinance to lower the city's penalties for possession of mari- juana and his opposition to a Republican - sponsored ordinance to restrict allegedly pornographic material, conservatives h a v e charged Harris' Democratic ad- ministration with having a "so- cial permissivist philosophy". Harris responds by terming the Republican's pornographyI ordi- nance "unconstitutional." He also defends the marijuana ordinance as necessary because of exces- sive marijuana penalties and the disrespect for law generated by such "unfair" penalties. The mayor's efforts in bringing low cost housing into Ann Arbor have met with opposition from conservative landowner'; who ob- ject to such project:; in their neighborhoods, as well as Re- publicans who call for a greater reliance by the city on the free market to bring rents down. Harris says however low cost housing is necessary because the free market system does not work here in providing low cost housing. He says the high cost of living in Ann Arbor which forces local workers to live outside the city necessitates increasing the sup- ply of low cost accommodations in Ann Arbor. Another area of conservative opposition to Harris is in the civil rights field, especially the model cities program which seeks im- (Continued from Page 1) would hope "to bring about a better understanding between the sheriff and local police." Along with undesireables, Gar- ris believes drug traffic consti- tutes, a large part of the crime problem in Ann Arbor, and he takes a hard line against loosen- ing the drug or narcotics laws. "Politicians are doing a dis- service to youth by playing with the liberalization of drug laws in their attempt to draw youth support," he says. As a long term solution to the problem, Garris favors an edu- cational program beginning at the kindergarten level if neces- sary, "to bring home to these young people the harm that they are doing to themselves." As a more immediate measure. Garris favors continuation of the present misdemeanor penalties for the first three convictions for use of marijuana, but with pen- alties increasing each time. However, for the fourth convic- tion, and for sale of marijuana, Garris would impose felony pmn- alties. 'The intent (of drug laws is not to 'punish poor victims 'who have been led to the use of mari- juana and other drugs, but to salvage their lives," he says. Garris' opposition to marijuana is based on his belief that it is definitely a harmful drug and leads to heroin use. "At every raid where the police found tni- juana, they also found heroin and other hard drugs," he says. Indeed, it was concern over the use of drugs and alcoholic bever- ages at rock concerts in city parks that propelled Garris into the Ann Arbor political arena in the first place. In the summer of 1969, when Sunday afternoon rock 'concerts sponsored by the White Panther Party and other community groups were held in carious city parks on a rotating basis, Garris emerged as the legal representa- tive of a group of citizens wish- ing to stop the concerts. "As I got further into it," Garris says, "I found there was something really dangerous de- veloping and we decided to do 4something about it." Thus, the Concerned Citizens of Ann Ar- bor, with Garris as chairman. was formed. Among other things, Concerned Citizens collected 7,000 signatures and sponsored a march in opposi- tion to the rock concerts, aznd * organized a campaign to recall Mayor Harris and six Democra- tic councilmen when the City ' Council continued to issue the park permits for the concert,. "It's not that we're against the rock concerts for young people," Garris says. "but we are against the type of people who i ere spon- soring those concerts." "The White Panthers are real- ly a dangerous group," lie say. "They mean to use :ock mus; .- to entrap young people into their way of thinking, in their attempt to destroy society." $650.00/SIX WEEKS SUMMER STUDY IN SOUTHERN FRANCE July 5-Auqust 14, 1971 " French Elementary Interme- diate, and Advanced# Levels 0 Earn up to 6 University Credits *r Information: Study Abroad Office (Miss Apple) : 764-0310 or come to 1223 Angell Hall " Application Deadline: March 31, 1971 Garris has also consistently op- posed the Harris administration's policies in the field of human rights, being especially critical of the Human Rights Depart- ment, the Housing Commission, the Model Cities program, arid the city grievance officer. "This was a city that had made remarkable progress in civil rights and had fine human rela- tions," he says. "Then Mayor Harris set up a lot of comn;:s- sions that pit black against white, rich against poor." Claiming that the entire Model Cities program was misplaced, he' says: "The present model cities area had no problems, ra- cial or economic. It was a well established neighborhood. What has been done is to shove mcdel cities down the throats of people who didn't even want it, and the people who could have benefited the most didn't ;et it." Also very critical of the people on the Model Cities policy boat d. Garris says, "the people on the board are wholly out of touch with the people in the commun- ity. I would bring the people causing dissension on the board in front of the public and they'd right themselves." In addition, Garris believes the Harris administration has fostered housing problems in the city by discouraging further housing developments. Believing that non-interference by the city government is the best way to resolve 'sousing dif- ficulties, Garris says: "I believe in the great system of free enter- prise. I don't go along with the radicals' silly claims that we need socialism or that we should run the landlords out of town." He is also opposed to letting students vote on the grounds that they are "transient" and could therefore act "without conscience or responsibility." provement of poor neighborhoods through community control. His opponents charge Harris with failing to provide leadership in the program and allowing it to fall into ineffectiveness, with dis- sention between members of the program's staff. Harris defends the model cities program, saying it would be in- appropriate for him to interfere in its operations because the community itself should run the program. Harris also faces opposition from the more radical portions of the community, both in loss of support from students who helped get him elected in 1969 and in direct opposition of the newly- formed Radical Independent Par- ty which is running Doug Cornell as their candidate for mayor. Alleged police brutality in con- nection with various student de- monstrations and recent police actions in drug raids in the city have resulted in widespread sen- timent among students and radi- cals for some form of community control over the police depart- ment. He says he favors."profession- alizing" the force to reduce the possibility of police overaction in confrontations with students and blacks. Another important radical con- cern is the question of building low cost housing fur the city's poor. Harris says the city has been able to build 200 units of feder- ally subsidized low cost hous- ing but has been unable to do., more due to a restricted budget. The left, however, is generally dissatisfied over the mayor's performance in this area. Harris has also been charged with dging too little in the to alleviate the city's drug problem. Many students feel the recentj city marijuana ordinance, en- forcement of which seems unlike- ly, is merely an attempt to woo the student vote.a Demands have been made for stronger action on the mayor's part including non-enforcement of laws governing the use of# marijuana and other drugs. Harris replies that the legaliz- ation of marijuana by the city would be unconstitutional, and says the new marijuana law is all the city can legally do. Strong criticism has come from both student and the local black community over the mayor's relations with blacks, with spe- cial emphasis placed on the re- cent firing of Robert Hunter, as- sistant administrator of the city's human relations department. Harris responds that the Hunt- er firing was the decision of James Slaughter, head of the hu- man ,relations commission and it would be inappropriate to in- terfere in departmental matters. 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The radicals advocate community control of police, legalization of marijuana, lowering the voting age to 18 for city elections and registration of all students who they claim are discouraged from registering to vote by the pre- sent administration. They also argue for immediate construction of 5,000 new units of tenant-controlled low-cost housing, a heavily graduate in- come tax along with reduction of the present property tax, and free 24-hour city child c a r e centers. RIP claims that the Democrat Party is no better than the Re- publican in enacting this kind of program. Cornell charges that the Democrats compromise their politics to appease a wide range of special interests and argues that "spreading yourself all over the place, a little here, a little there," accomplishes nothing. Further, Cornell suggests this attitude gives people political leaders who "make the p e o p 1 e happy with the least effect or change." Applying his point of view to the current race, Cornelles a y s "there are ways I can see that. although Garris and Harris have different utterances, their effect would be the same." For example, Cornell cites the city's new marijuana ordinance. The ordinance, which provides a city misdemeanor penalty as an alternative to the current state felony penalty, is at this time considered ineffective because of Republican County Prosecu- tor William Delhy's refusal to cooperate with its enforcement. Cornell says that Harris and the Democratic-controlled coun- cil could have more effectively instructed the city police not to enforce any marijuana laws at all. He claims that, the Ann Arbor police could now arrest a great number of young people on charges of lewd and lascivious cohabitation, but chooses not to do so. He says they could simil- arly choose not to enforce the marijuana laws. RIP's campaign has drawn criticism largely from liberal Democrats such as Harris who claim that they favor many of the Radical programs; but have not had the political pull or the financial base to enact such programs. While Democrats have called RIP "well intentioned", t h e y have also leveled charges of "irresponsibility" against RIP for attacks against Democratic efforts in social legislation and programs. In addition to challenging the other parties on specific issues and programs, members of RIP also criticizes Democrats a n d Republicans for their -party structure and operation. RIP claims they are not r u n democratically and that candi- dates, once in office, need not be responsive to the demands of the people, and of the party that sponsored them, or to the platform they espoused. According to Cornell, R I P has published and "conducted open party meetings," for every- thing, including the party plat- form, with anyone attending the meeting considered an RIP member. 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