The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 7A State Senate candidates prepare to contest issues By C. Price Jones Daily Staff Reporter With the state Senate primaries quickly approaching, candidates Elizabeth Brater (D- Ann Arbor), Richard DeLong (R-Scio Twp.) and state Rep. John Hansen (D-Dexter) are preparing to fill the 18th-district seat. { Though the race may not heat up until May, the candidates are already focused on claiming the seat of Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith (D-Salem Twp.), who is running for governor. Brater and Hansen emphasized education as a key issue in their campaigns, although they addressed the solutions by different means. "My whole life was spent in public schools," Hansen said. "We've got darn good public schools in Ann Arbor. I want to be the voice for strong public schools throughout the state." He added that his experience, over 35 years in public education and schooling, earns him respect in the school issue. Brater said the focus should be on early edu- cation, and that "the one out of five dollars spent on corrections" should be used to make sure education is adequately funded. The candidates also emphasized the need to address environmental and transportation issues, including inappropriate land use and construction of new roads. "Some of our townships have extremely large lot sizes for residential building, a bad land use," DeLong said. He added that clus- tered housing - preserving open space while allowing development - would solve ineffi- cient use of land in areas that have 10-acre minimums on residential building. Land use was an important issue to Hansen, who said the issue would be the most important one to Washtenaw County voters. Reallocation of criminal systems funds is on Brater's agenda, concerning not only education but also health care to the mentally ill. "The governor closed 15 out of the 20 men- tal hospitals. People who would be in mental hospitals are in prisons," Brater said of correc- tional facilities. "We need to make sure that people are getting health care in the health sys- tems, not criminal systems." Brater is running for the state Senate after completing three terms in the House from 1994 to 2000. She added she will continue the work she began in the House concerning the environment. "You can't build your way out of traffic congestion. We need to give people options," Brater said. She added she sup- ports affordable public transit, such as the bus system, because new roads lead to more congestion. DeLong has served as Washtenaw County commissioner for 10 years and is approaching his five-term limit. Hansen is reaching the end of his second term in the House. He said he chose to run for Senate this year due to his House term limits, which would end in 2004, the off-year for Sen- ate elections. The deadline for candidates to enter the race is May 4. The primaries will be held in August. McCain, Bayh plan A2 town meeting By Louie Meizlish Daly Staff Reporter U.S. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) will be hosting a town hall meet- ing next month on campus, beginning a nation- wide campaign to drum up support for one of their legisla- tive priorities - expanding volunteerism. The senators will be speak- 3 ing April 8 at Hill Auditorium. McCain and Bayh's bill, the Call to Service Act of 2001, would dramatically expand community service opportuni- ties for citizens.-McCain "I think everyone recognizes this is a unique moment in American history where we can tap into the feeling of patriotism in the country and put it to good use," said Mark Kornblau, Bayh's communications director. One of the provisions of the bill would quintu- ple the size of the AmeriCorps program from 50,000 participants to 250,000. The program awards students who perform volunteer activities with such organizations as Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross with liv- ing allowances and grants to cover the cost of higher educa- tion. McCain and Bayh have been working with President Bush on the expansion of communi- ty service programs after the president outlined a similar Bayh proposal in his State of the Union address Jan. 29. Bush's proposal, however, would expand AmeriCorps by only 25,000. Another important difference between the two proposals is that while the Bush proposal would require that 50 percent of federal work study funds given to colleges go to com- munity service jobs, the McCain-Bayh bill would only require 25 percent. The legislation would also require that half of new AmeriCorps positions be associated with homeland defense and would also require the establishment of state commissions on national service to determine how volunteers can help in emergency preparedness. The bill would also encourage enlistment in the military with additional cash incentives for serv- ing on active duty. "They especially wanted to come to the Uni- versity of Michigan because that's where (Presi- dent John F. Kennedy) initiated the Peace Corps," said LSA junior Eric Feldman, chair of the Uni- versity's chapter of College Democrats. The event is being sponsored by the College Democrats, the College Republicans and the Uni- versity. Clinton's clemency policies criticized WASHINGTON - Former President Clinton's half- brother was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of as many as 13 people seeking presi- dential pardons, according to a new congressional report that accuses the last administration of dispensing legal forgiveness in a "reckless and corrupting" fash- ion. The report, to be issued today by a House committee led by one of Clinton's fiercest critics, asserts that Roger Clinton "engaged in a systematic effort to trade on his brother's name,' reaping more money and trying to obtain more pardons and other favors than previous- ly.known. Prepared by the House Government Reform Com- mittee, the two-inch thick report contends that the for- mer president "instructed Roger Clinton to use his connections ... to gain financial advantage." It details efforts the president's brother allegedly undertook, including an abortive attempt to secure a pardon for Rita Lavelle, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator in the Reagan administration, and "at least $335,000 in unexplained travelers checks" the Michigan daily HELPER FREE SPRING/SUMMER APT. FINDER. Baby 3 Mo 20 distinctive locations to choose from, studio Call at 747-89 6 bdrms. Call CMB 741-9300.C that were deposited into Roger Clinton's bank account from abroad. The criticism of Roger Clinton is among the most extensive in the report, which describes the findings from an investigation initiated by Rep. Dan Burton (R- Ind.), the committee's chairman, immediately after Clinton's second term ended in January 2001. The investigation focused on Clinton's decision to lift 176 Americans out of legal trouble during the clos- ing hours of his presidency by granting 140 pardons and commuting 36 prison sentences. The beneficiaries of those last-minute actions included Marc Rich, a fugitive who had been indicted in the largest tax-eva- sion case in U.S. history; figures in the Whitewater scandal; former Cabinet members; and Roger Clinton himself. Some of the decisions were controversial because they circumvented the Justice Department's normal pardons process. Much of the content of Burton's report emerged in news accounts and legislative hearings during the past 14 months. A grand jury in New York is examining whether any of the pardons were illegal. The report does not allege the pardons broke the law but uses harsh language to depict a compendium of favors that it says helped "so many undeserving indi- viduals" and "ignored almost every applicable standard governing the exercise of the clemency power." A spokeswoman for the former president said, "The Burton report is filled with nothing but the usual accusations, allegations and innuendo when it comes to President Clinton. It offers no proof of wrongdoing." The spokeswoman, Julia Payne, also dismissed as "simply false" the report's conclusion that Bill Clinton encouraged his half-brother to "use his presidency for personal financial gain." Attorneys for Roger Clinton did not return telephone calls yesterday. The report also criticizes a former deputy attorney general, Eric Holder Jr., saying that he "explicitly rec- ommended" that Rich hire Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel, to pursue a pardon after the Justice Department had failed to negotiate a plea agreement to resolve Rich's case. a President Bush answers questions during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House yesterday. Bush downplays bin Laden but has harsh words for Husseln WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush declared yesterday that Iraqi Presi- dent Saddam Hussein is a menace "and we're going to deal with him;' and said Osama bin Laden - a man he once wanted dead or alive - has been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism. "He's the ultimate parasite who found weakness, exploited it, and met his match," Bush said of the suspected mas- termind behind the Sept. 11 attacks. "I truly am not that concerned about him." In his first full-blown news confer- ence in five months, the president pro- duced strong rhetoric on the war and America's enemies. Bush said he is leav- ing "all options on the table" as the Pen- tagon reworks its nuclear weapons policy to deter any attack on the United States - including from non-nuclear states such as Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria. "The president must have all options available to make that deterrent have meaning," he said. Bush, holding his fifth formal White House news conference, fielded ques- tions on more than a dozen issues and sought to defuse the toughest questions with humor. But his eyes grew red and moist as he talked about slain U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan. "I feel responsible" when troops are harmed, he said. "I'm not very good about concealing my emo- tions"' In a slap at one of the closest U.S. allies, Bush criticized Israel for escalat- ing military action against Palestinians. "It's not helpful what the Israelis have recently done,"he said. 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