NATION/WORLD- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 9, 2000 - 9A Bradley expected to withdraw from race, back Gore McCain plans to ponder all possible options / WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Bradley readied an belief that he is a good person," Gore said on NBC. endorsement of old foe Al Gore yesterday as he "I have worked with him in the Senate." rpted his exit from the Democratic presidential Neither Bradley nor McCain scheduled any public mpaign. John McCain went home to Arizona, his appearances during the day. For both, it was a sobering Republican challenge near an end, voluntarily or not. Wednesday after a Super Tuesday that effectively ended Gore and Texas Gov. George Bush, nominees-in- their hopes of winning the White House in 2000. waiting, reached out to their defeated rivals and Advisers to Bradley, speaking on condition of jabbed at one another as they pivoted toward the anonymity, said the former New Jersey senator would general election. announce his withdrawal today and throw his support Bush labeled the vice president A A to the vice president. "an agent of Washington," and Gore Bradley, 56, plans to stay active in returned the insult, saying Bush was public life and is not expected to rule too cozy with the "extreme right" as out another presidential run, the advis- aersonified by the National Rifle ers said. They also said he has no tsociation and religious broadcaster interest in the vice presidential spot on Robertson. the Democratic ticket. Bush also appealed to McCain's desire, often stat- Not that Gore was thinking along those lines. One ed on the campaign, to deny Gore the White House. senior adviser to the vice president, speaking on con- "I would say, 'John, let's team up and let's win. Let's dition of anonymity, noted that Bradley had not won beat Al Gore," the governor said. He hastened to add any contests in his quest for the nomination and he wasn't extending an offer of the vice presidential Gore would want someone on the ticket who had spot on his ticket. demonstrated an ability to carry a state. Gore offered warm words for Bradley, whom he A senior aide to McCain, also speaking on condi- had attacked repeatedly in debates and advertising tion of anonymity, said a list of all possible options when the nomination was at risk. had been prepared for his meetings during the day. * "Throughout the campaign I've affirmed my These included staying in the race to further his political reform agenda, getting out and supporting the GOP ticket, and leaving to mount a third-party bid. McCain has said previously he would not leave the GOP and the adviser said he had no reason to believe the senator had changed his mind. Republicans aides said there had been discussions about how to ease McCain's return to the Senate after a campaign in which he often attacked his own party as beholden to special interests. The presidential campaign was at a pivot point, but there were still primaries to come, and both Bush and Gore continued to seek votes. Gore had Michigan and Minnesota on his itinerary for the day, two states where Democratic delegates will be selected over the next few days. At the same time, given the collapse of Bradley's candidacy, the vice president's aides decided to pull back S500,000 in television advertising that had been slated for Southern states holding primaries on March 14. Bush set stops today in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, where delegates will be picked in pri- maries and caucuses tomorrow. After the virtual nationwide primary on Tuesday, the AP delegate count showed Gore with 1,424 dele- gates, to 412 for Bradley, out of 2,170 needed for the nomination. AP PHOTQN Republican presidental candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush addresses news media at the Govemors Mansion in Austin yesterday with his wife Laura. Fed says spending essentil to boom. WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal -Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday warned banks against lax lending activities on expectations that the U.S. economic boom will continue indefinitely. Many banking institutions see current *ong economic conditions "as no longer extraordinary and exceptional bit rather as ordinary and expected,' Greenspan told community banks exec- utives in San Antonio, Texas. Copies of California voters eny same sex couples the rght to marry ® Proposition 22 triumphs in all California regions except the Bay Area Los Angeles Times On a ballot packed with complex, emo- tional and expensive questions, Californians on Tuesday showed a conservative mood on divisive social issues, but were generally happy in these prosperous times to bankroll big-ticket items to improve the quality of life in their own back yards. The primary voters here gave resounding support to a measure banning gay marriage. They also got tough on crime by supporting much stronger punishments for juveniles con- victed of violent offenses. In an important referendum on cam- paign finance reform, they rejected an attempt to revolutionize the way politi- cians are supported in the state, apparent- ly opposing the measure's call for public funding of state candidate: and a loophole that would have allowed millionaires to spend unlimited amounts sel'-financing their races. They also defeated another proposal that would have made it much easicr for school districts to increase property taxes. But large numbers of voters also sifted through the long list of 2() itiaives domi- nating the ballot in this bellwsether state and backed expensive bond measures to improve their parks, rivers and coastline, their drinking water, their libraries and vet- erans' homes. They overwhelmingly decided to keep one of the, nation's most expensive taxes on cigarettes - at 50 cents a pack - to help fund early child development pro- grams. And the voters again supported by wide margins the appeal by Native Americans to be able to operate Vegas-style casinos on their tribal lands - a victory for Indians that will probably make California the nation's second-largest gambling state, sur- passing New Jersey. Because of its size and diversity, Califor- nia's electorate of nearly 15 million voters is often the nation's most influential and most closely watched, especially in a presidential election year. But political analysts warned that Tues- day's primary results were somewhat skewed because the fight for the Republi- can presidential nomination drew a dis- proportionate number of older, more conservative, more Republican citizens to the polls. "There seemed to be a strong conservative streak going through most of the initiatives on the ballot this time, except for the bond mea- sures, which is a sign of how good voters feel about the economy," said Mark DiCamillo, director of California's independent Field Poll. the speech text were "Most bad loans %re made in good times." distributed in Washington. He said lending based on that assumptian could have negative con- sequences for the banking industry's ability to w ea t h e r AP PHO California State Sen. Pete Knight (R-Palmdale), Proposition 22's author, thanks voters Tuesday for their support. Alan Greenspan weke Dco- Federal Reserve nomic condi- Chairman tions. "We have ben growing evidence of credit grant- ed solely on the expectation that cur- rent robust conditions will continue indefinitely, with little thought as to how borrowers might perform under more stressful conditions," Greenspan said. The U.S. economy has entered a record 108th straight month of expansion. Earlier this week, Greenspan sug- ested the Fed will tighten its credit ip further in the coming months to prevent the economy from over- heating. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has repeatedly called for banks to avoid making excessive lending based on lax standards, not- ing such lending will endanger the current economic expansion. "As experienced lenders know all te well, most bad loans are made in The good times. 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