THE Michigan Daily Edited and managed by Students at the University of Michigan Saturday, August 3, 1974 News Phone: 764 0552 The Daily endorses . State 54 By DAVID WHITING ('YNITHIA CHURCHILL, em- ployed at Com-Share, Inc., is the ony woman in the race. She stresses the need for more somen in potitical office and is a member of the National Or- ganizatin for Women. Favoring a state-wide grad- uated income tax, she also wants to repeal Michigan's 4 per cent food and drug tax, de- criminatize marijuana, ad in- crease fundting of health care, enate candidates education, and better hoasin Churchill emphasizes that tiqated family law m s o deposit, no return updated, attacking as juvenile justice, child lody, protective services, EACH OF THE THREE candidates seeking the Demo- the Friend of the Court sys eratic Party's gubernatorial nomination in next Stressing campaign fin Tuesday's primary lection is unsuited for holding the reform, she is the only on highest state offite and thus The Daily chooses to make the race who has not given income tax forms to thep no endorsement i this contest, but would make them avail Battling for the Democratic nod are Sander Levin, on request. Churchill in Jerome Cavatagh, and James Wells. to spend less than $500 in Levin, who narrowly lost to incumbent governor Wil- 'primary and limits scrs mdonations to $5 with no i--i tianmMitliken four years ago, holds moderate to liberal 'accepted from groups. stands on most issues but has often been indecisive in PETER ESKSTEIN, anz taking action. ciate economics professoi Inherently the governor must be able to make hard- Western Michigan Univer hitting, incisive decisions - in the past Levin has failed has put major emphasis on political activism and ex to demonstraste this qutality.ience ia trying to lobbying While Cavanagh maintains a political posture not unlike Levin's his major weakness has been an inabilityI to carry out promises. As mayor of Detroit, Cavanagh -- then hailed as a boy wonder -'put forth many grandiose hopes for the Motor City, but when he left office few had come to h e n pass. I 1 w. taes It an- t be laws and 'em. i in prey lalle the sonal asso- r at sity, his xper- for reform. Eckstein favors a graduated income tax, repealing the food and drug tax, decriminalizati-in of marijuana, women's rights, :md harsh pollution laws. Stressing "the Bursley A" , mmlv rearranges injustices," Eckstein wants to change ei- :ational financing and give more money to public schools. Planing on spending ab iti 54.211 in the primary, ie las put no limit on campaign con- tributions. He does favor strict- er control on campaign finan:- ing. GERALD FAYE, a politic) l science professor at Oakland Community College, stresses "equitable financing of educa- tion" while attacking the Burs- ley Bill, and is concerned w'h the environment. Faye favors a graduated is- come tax, repeal of the food and drug tax, decriminalization of marijuana, and more money fir education. He has stressed his 2xper- ience in the Democratic party and come out for campaign fic- ancing reform putting a $100 1 -it on personal contribiins and $500 on group donations. tte plans to spend $7,000-$8,000 ;n the primary. He points out his "full scats ' campaign to beat the Reputlican incumbent Gilbert Birsley char- ging that Bursley spent over $6,- 000 during May on mailings. Faye further emphasizes that "blacks and chicanos remain the poorest and therefore suf- fer the most acutely" fram pol- lution. hAROLD MOON, a local ba ?- bondsman, has set his major theme the state-wide abolition of parking meters, being the only one in the race to hit that issue. Moon charges parking fines "are unlegislated taxes, ' also pointing out that those in poli- tical office are allowed stata- owned cars which he wnst to stop. He favors a graduated in -ime tax, repealing the food anJ drug tax, decriminalization of mari- juana, and more money for ed- ucation. The only one in the race ac- cepting no contributions from outside sources, Moon plans to spend $4,000-$5,000inthe pri- mary and favors strict laws in campaign financing. Also attacking "corporan eig- wigs" Moon promises to "fight for the average citizen" by get- ting inflation under control. THE LIZ AND PERRY SHOW it rains, it pours The dark horse candidate in the race is James Wells, a Southfield attorney. He is unacceptable because of his conservative political outlook which is very similar to that of George Wallace's. BECAUSE OF THE FLAWS in each candidate, The Daily cannot lend its support to any of them. and not to be refilled IT IS WITH A heavy heart The Daily comes to you un- . able to endorse any of the candidates running in the 15th district county commissioner primary. In the two-way race are David Copi and Kathy Mc- Clary. McClarv has chosen to be a hidden face from the voters by taking a job out of state for the summer. Copi's previous job was connected with Friends of the Court. McClary managed to delay effective rape legislation by obstanantly refusing to compromise her unrealistic sweeping proposals for over seven months, also attempt- ing to channel grants intended to combat rape into the Women's Crisis Center of which she is a member. Copi dodges basic reforms such as a progressive health care programs by speaking, for such controversial issues as- bike paths. Furthermore he is blind to the causes of penal reform, seeing bigger jails as the only solution. Ignoring much needed rehabilitation programs for our jail, Copi favors building a new jail "larger, so we do not have to build another one in the next 10 years." and rates aspiring judges IN THE 15TH DISTRICT judgeship races, The Daily re- commends the following candidatest For the new indgeship: Recommended: George W. Alexander, Washtenaw County's onlir oiblic defender who supnorts the $5 mari- juana law and would like to see victimless crimes settled out of court. Shirlev J. Burtovne. a lonetime advocate of womens rights who also sonnorts the $5 amendment and wants a low prinrity on victimless crime. Acceptable: Glynn D. Barnett. an active Democrat, who feels the $5 mariiuana law is a mandate from the peo- ple but has not been very specific on victimless crime. R. Bruce Laidlaw. who wants to see fair and speedy dispo.gition of court cases. including victimless crimes. James Stuart Sexsmith. who sees "no fault" with the $5 law and also sees that there is "to much stress" on vic- timless crimes. To fill the expired term: Recommended: Donald E. Koster, who has been a longtime worker for tenants' rights in Ann Arbor and defended those arrested in the LS&A bookstore sit-in. Acceptable: Peter J. Collins, a lawyer, who worked for the abortive Eugene McCarthy campaign in 1968. He supports the $5 dope law as a matter of "home rule." Unacceptable: S. J. Elden, a "strict constructionist" -i.e., reactionary-who overturned the first $5 dope or- dinance in Ann Arbor. About the only thing to his ju- dicial credit is that he did judge the Daily bubble gum blowing contest last year, By PAUL HASKINS THOSE OF US who tuned in to WCBN-Fm Sun- day evening were treated to one of the more unrestrained exhibitions of political backstabbing and sidestepping in recent memory. Incumbent State Representative Perry Bullard and challenger Elizabeth Taylor, Washtenaw County Commissioner, squared off - for a com- bination debate'" Question and "swer '/elo- cution lesson in preparation for the Aug. 6 Demo- cratic primary. The youthful, articulate, progressive social lib- ertarian Bullard and the progressive, liberal, ar- ticulate social libertarian Taylor defied all known laws of probability in finding enough points of aesthetic, stylistic, and semantical disagreement to more than bloat the scheduled one and half hour program slot. Each of the two Democratic hopefuls was al- lowed a five minute opening statement. BULLARD SPOKE FIRST, emphasizing h i s efforts to reduce the penalties and stigma attach- ed to victimless crimes. "Many purely personal activities are defined as crimes by our criminal laws and should be repealed," declared Bullard, citing marijuana use, consensual sexual activity (including prostitution), and gambling. It was pure essence of Bullad throughout, with the incumbent masterfully j-gling enough token references to populist causes to make Cesar Chavez come off like a Kiwanis Club treasurer. He seized upon the democratization of public and private corporations as one of his major pur- suits as an office-holder. He spoke glowingly of his vision of a day when Blue Cross and Blue Shield would see a a two-thirds majority of "ord- inary consumers on their boards of directors, though failing to expound on the Bullardian de- finition of ordinary. Having perfunctorily dispelled any lingering doubts about the future of man and government, Bullard wrapped up his opening with a final ex- hortation for his dutiful constituency: "Ann Ar- bor is in unique position to provide effective in- put on the important issues" - a statement above refutation, considering Ann Arbor's unique taste in legislative input valves. THE SNOW HAD barely settled beneath Bul- lard's microphone when Taylor unleashed her attack. Obviously is no mood for mincing words, she all but ignored the old-school tradition of stating one's politics. Taylor initially stressed the glaring absence of any professional social workers on a state legis- lature which annually embraces social services as its largest single budgetary item ($810 million this year). She casually mentioned the May 16 House de- bate over a social services bill amendment, dur- ing which Bullard had nothing better to do than browse through a daily newspaper and event- ually change his vote on the issue when he real- ized it diverged from the party line. This first of what proved to be a constant flow of Taylor potshots inspired an impromptu sem- inar on the multiple variations and underlying subtleties of party line voting - an heroic ex- change of pregnant insight which managed to drone on for what seemed like two minutes and thirty seven seconds despite a fatal case of predictive anemia compounded by th' dreaded dangling participles. INTRODUCTORY NICETIES had long since deserted the promises as the conversation back- tracked full circle to the issue of human rights (listeners not included), Taylor argued her superiority over Bullard as a proponent of women's rights f-sr bioogical if no other reasons, though the mnconventional trappings of her particular brand of feminity must have fully taxed the radio audience's cre- dulity. Bullard, assuming his finest what-did-I-do-to-de- serve-this posture, reflexively opted for the scenic route in approaching the "Deep Throat" caper, a fast-buck, bush league imitation of campaign fundraising a few months back which Bullardites the town over have come to thoroughly regret. Bullard made short shrift of any personal cul- pability in the matter - summarily dispatching a Taylor blurb about syndicate ownership of "Throat" - preferring to depite the situation as a bold new concept in populist fundraising, the film itself seen as a progressive giant of the porno field. HAVING GROWN weary of his 'role as designat- ed flack-catcher, Bullard no doubt relished a caller's beratement of Taylor for engineering a cut in the County Boards social services' budget, and rendered each of the challenger's attempted replies abortive with: "The fact is, you cut the budget, Liz," - thereby hurtling that phrase into instant contention for Bartlett's. Now gripped by surging momentum, Bullard rattled off a string of local, liberal politicos sup- porting him over Taylor. At the mention of County Commissioner Meri Lou Murray's name, Taylor cried foul, claiming Murray's allegiance for herself. Eventually, each settled for a piece of the Murray pie, leaving Murray the big loser in this particular tete-a-tete. Triumphantly displaying that day's edition of the Ypsilanti Free Press, she read aloud a statement of Bullard's financial holdings. THE FREE PRESS account had Bullard hold- ing 35 shares of KMS Industries in 1972, three shares in 1973. KMS, it seems, was a major target of a 1972 City Council drive to refuse city services to war- related industries - an efort that Bullard had publicly supported at the time. After a few hard swallows accented by a liberal sprinkling of harumpphs, the annoyed Bullard assailed Taylor for character assassina- tion, the Ypsilanti Free Press for bogus report- ing. He had owned only three shares of KMS in 1972, said Bullard, not 35 (Bullard's contention has since been confirmed by the Daily). What's more, he upwardly dandered, the stock was only worth three dolars a share ($3.58); he'd won it in a friendly wager on the 1972 Democratic Presi- dential nomination, hadn't had a chance to dump it and has no intention of collecting dividends. Bullard mentioned no -relationship between the KMS incident and his crusade to decriminalize gambling.