The race for U.S. senator
A Hatfield-Hendriksen feud
By Dave Berns
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The U.S. Senate race between
incumbent Republican Mark
Hatfield and his Democratic
challenger, state Sen. Margie
Hendriksen, has never hit full
stride.
Hatfield has been on the state
political scene ever since his
election to the Oregon State
House in 1950. Following a
four-year stint in the House,
Hatfield served as a state
senator (1954-56), Oregon
secretary of state (1956-58).
governor (1958-66) and since
1966, IJ.S. senator.
Since 1980. when the
Republicans gained control of
the Senate. Hatfield has served
as chair of the powerful Senate
Appropriations Committee,
which annually votes on spen
ding limits for the federal
budget.
Hendriksen. on the other
hand, has only held elective of
fice for four years.
Elected to the Oregon House
in 1980. she served for one
term, then ran for and won the
Eugene state Senate seat held by
Republican George. Wingard.
Hendriksen is chair of the
Senate I,abor Committee and a
member of both the Senate
•Revenue and judiciary
committees.
Hendriksen has attempted to
paint Hatfield as "Ronald
Reagan's man." She says Hat
field supported the president's
a
Mark Hatfield
nominations of )ames Watt as
secretary of interior. Kenneth
Adelinan as director of the
Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency, and William Casey as
director of the CIA.
Hendriksen points to Mat
field's opposition to abortion,
as well as his support of what
she terms the president's “rose
garden plan,’’ which calls for
the yearly growth of the defense
budget by 7 percent over the
rate of inflation.
Kick Rolf, foreign policy ad
viser to Hatfield, says that his
boss has been successful over
the past four years in cutting the
proposed Reagan defense
budgets by $50 billion.
Rolf also refers to the dif
ferences between Hatfield and
the president on arms control.
‘‘President Reagan and his ad
ministration have held a
disgraceful posture in dealing
with arms control... some of
his views do not mesh with the
reality of the survival of the
human race.”
Hatfield, along with Sen. Ed
ward Kennedy, I)-Mass.. has
been a prime sponsor of the
nuclear freeze initiative in the
Senate, Rolf says. Hendriksen is
not satisfied, however.
Hendriksen says her oppo
nent has chaired the committee
that has passed the president's
defense budgets, creating the
largest defense expenditures in
IJ.S. history.
The two also differ on the
Reagan tax cut. Hendriksen
criticizes Hatfield for suppor
ting the 1981 cut, which reduc
ed income tax rates by 25 per
cent over three years-, provided
business and investment tax in
centives! and called for the in
dexing of tax brackets starting
in 1985.
Hendriksen supports the
Mondale budget plan, which
.Would restore much of. the tax
cut. repeal indexing: and• close
many of the tax loopholes that
benefit businesses. She also
supports the Bradley-Gephardt
bill, Which would restructure
the present system of tax
brackets.
“These, are the issues that
must be debated by our senior
senator," she says.
Hatfield, however, has refus
ed to debate his opponent. Rolf
attributes this to the senator’s
belief that debates are not a
good educational tool in an
election. Hendriksen says that
Hatfield is running scared.
In spite of°a large lead in the
polls and a sizable campaign0
budget, Hatfield has had some
problems.
Although he is honorary co
chair of the president’s re
election committee in Oregpn.
Hatfield has attempted to
distance himself from the presi
dent. He has also had to face
charges of impropriety in his
dealings with Greek
businessman Basil Tsakos.
The Tsakos affair first arose in
August following disclosures
by political columnist Jack
Anderson that Hatfield’s wife
Antoinette had received
$55,000 in payments from
Tsakos while the senator was
pushing a Tsakos trans-African
pipeline project.
Hatfield claims the payments
were made to his wife in return
for her efforts in helping the
Tsakos family find and decorate
an apartment in Washington.
I).C.
Hatfield has since been
cleared of any wrong doing by
the Senate Kthics Committee,
but is still under investigation
Margie Hendriksen
by the FBI.
Hendriksen fears that Reagan,
if re-elected, may block any fur
ther investigations info the af
fair. “If this is so. will Senator
Hatfield be. open to blackmail by
members of the president's
administration?"
She further charges that
Oregon has lost approximately
$690 million in federal aid since
Hatfield took over as chair of the
appropriations committee.
Hendriksen bases this claim
on a study done by Fiscal Plann
ing Services Inc., a manage
ment information service based
in Washington. D.C.
"This will have meant a loss
of $80 million to Lane County
between the fiscal years 1982
and 1984,” she says.
The study claims Oregon has
experienced federal funding
reductions of 18 percent in
grants-in-aid to state and local
governments, 64 percent in job
training programs, 12 percent
in education block grants, and 7
percent in child nutrition
programs.
Hatfield aide Lon Fendall
says that the study is flawed and
is based on false assumptions.
He says the inflation rate used
in projecting the growth of pro
gram budgets is much higher
than the actual current rate. The
programs' rates of growth were
cut, not actual benefits.
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