Debates won by no-contest
By )ulie Shippen
Of the Krneruld
If a race could be won or lost
simply on the grounds of who
appeared for a debate and who
didn't, the Democratic can
didates for House Districts 39
and 40 would have the election
all sewn up.
Still, political campaigns
aren't so simple.
Ron Eachus, a candidate for
District 39 state representative,
and current District 40 State
Rep. Carl Hosticka were both
found tacking in opponents at a
public forum held Tuesday
afternoon as part of the Politics
’84 symposium organized by
the ASUO.
The Republican candidates
for the offices, Carl DiPaolo and
Ron Eachus
Mitch Hammerstad who also are
running for Districts 39 and 40
respectively, failed to appear at
the debate, leaving the
microphone as well as their side
open for !3emocratic attack.
Hosticka opened the discus
sion with an appeal to students
to take more of an interest in
this race, as legislators like him
play an important part in higher
education.
“I believe we need to make
the commitment of tax monies
and state funding for higher
education,” Hosticka said. He
added that higher education is
experiencing increased enroll
ment. revenues and improved
attitudes from the tuition freeze
implemented during the last
legislative session.
Hosticka said he sees a
“hypocracy factor” in the
Legislature, where people are
willing to vote for increased
spending without supporting
an increase in taxes as well.
These legislators are com
parable to people who don't
plan ahead when dining out
and come up cashless when it’s
time to pay the waiter, he said.
“My view is that we can’t af
ford freeloaders like that in the
Legislature,” Hosticka said.
Eachus said his campaign is
based on a “don’t sell the voters
short” philosophy. He said
DiPaolo's platform is much dif
ferent because he opposes pro
Carl Hosticka
posals that Eachus believes are
important to the district, such
as property taxation.
"It’s important because we
can’t keep going through Ballot
Measure 2’s every time we go
through an election,” he said.
Eachus said he prefers to pro
vide property-tax relief through
homeowner and renter exemp
tions financed by income taxes,
instead of the adoption of a
sales tax.
Eachus also supports Ballot
Measure 3, the Citizen’s Utility
Board initiative, which he said
DiPaolo views as a “pseudo”
issue.
“It’s very much a pocketbook
issue,” Eachus said. “I don’t
think the threat of a 2- to
300-percent telephone rate in
crease within the next three
years is a ‘pseudo issue' ”
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