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COMMUNITY Gargan’s political ad urges voters to ‘recycle Congress’ By Joe Kidd Emerald Polilics Edilor I'M ANGRY I'M IN CENSED ... I'M LIVID I'M EVEN MORE LIVID I'M KN RAGED I'M DISGUSTED .! So screams a furious lack Gargan in a full page political advertisement that has become the vortex of a small-time poli tical campaign gone wild. The thrust of his anger? The name of (Organ's five-monlh old organization zeroes in on the target: Throw the Hypocrit ical Rascals Out!. Inc. THRO for short (the Rascals being in cumbents in Congress) "I'M MAI) AS HK1.1. AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!” shouts Gargan. 00. through the ad’s headline So fur the "grassroots peti lion." as the ad calls itself, has run in 15H newspapers around the country, with the exception of a dozen newspapers, includ ing The Register-Guard, which have refused to run it for a vari ety of reasons THRO, having sprung from the seed of Gargan's $45,000 "life savings" in June, has ral lied an anti-incumbent senti ment and TV news crews AUDM/VBEO OCTOBER 8-20 AT THE UO BOOKSTORE QABJISBI2 SPECIALS Pioneer PULL OUT 219.95 Heg 279.95 SALC * Clanon IN DASH 139.95 R°9 od PULL OUT High Powei 5 MZ SALE 199.95 RB9 ^ PULL OUT High Power Clanon CD pull 439.95 Reg 499 96 "srsrpo^379 95 U „„ PoA’er 60 Watt amp Precision Powe 199.95 Beg 232 00 FREE Component Speakers Sys 16 1(4 andhase Tw*AOc«. 9 Only Aiwa Auto R®ve,se^PLe£ 189-95 Beg 199 96 SALC ^Dubbmj0** £ ieg95 Beg 179 95 JVC Bx 30! 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"Good Morning America.” and CNN's "I-arry King Live" show. Gargan. a retired fi nancial planner from Tampa, Kla.. created THRO in an attempt to omaocro rnmow IWMIM •*» «M MM a* MMin I I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT | GOjNG TO TAKE FT ANYMORE! sSwSBBESKeSS SKsriJSr —— lagj.^ea^ss'pg SC-fOSS^*’ ■•.TTaraec- ■ convince America that Con gress is due for at least an over haul. and at Ih*sI. a revolution. "You CAN make a difference (and this just might Ik; your last chance to do it peaceably)." reads the ad. "Nothing fancy. Nothing complicated. Just sim ply pledge to VOTE EVERY 1N CUMHKNT SENATOR AND CONCRESSMAN OUT OF OF FICE There's no way we could end up with anything worse than what we already have!" Indeed, congressional re election rates run high. Over the past ten years, incumbents in the House enjoyed 90 to 97 percent re-election rates, while veteran senators averaged an 80 percent chance of retaining their seats, according to a Sept 1(1 article in Hull Cull, a Capitol Hill newspaper that tracks Con gress. While TIIRO's ad primarily enlists readers to use their bal lot punchers to oust incum bents. a paragraph labeled "op tional" near the bottom of the text gives people the opportu nity to send in money. “We use all the money we get to run the ad again (in other newspapers) and on postage and printing." salt! Mary Maro ne\. one of three dozen people who has volunteered to work for THRO. So far the group has received about $300,000 in contribu tions. Staroney said in a phone interview from Tampa "But we've been so busy, we don’t know exactly. We are going to get an auditor to come in here and figure; things out when the dust settles after the; (Novem ber) elections." Although the ad displays a Florida nonprofit charter num ber, at least one newspaper re fused to run THRO’s plea be cause of uncertainty about the group's nonprofit status. In September, The Seattle Times rejected THKO's request to run the ad "It didn't uphold our strict policy standards," said Nancy Wyne, the ad repre sentative who handled the re quest In response, Gargan went on a Seat tie-area radio talk show encouraging listeners to call the newspaper in protest The Times relented, printing the ad on Sept. 2t>. "We always like the public to beware, to take a cautious look when groups are soliciting funds," Wyne said of the ail. The Register-Guanl, for less dramatic reasons, refused the ad because THKO's request to run it at a certain rate didn't meet the newspaper's ad po licies General Manager Fletch er Little said THRO asked to publish the ad in The Register Guard in August at a standby rate even though the newspa per doesn’t have such a rate. Despite the rejections, Maro uey t onsiders the ad a surpris ing success "It really has excited peo ple," she said. "The phone has been ringing off the hook One man. when he sent in money, wrote on his check 'For recycl ing Congress.' " Hanford cleanup expensive PORTLAND (AP) Oregon's share of business from the mas sive cleanup program at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington may im reuse, officials say. Spending for the Washington site is projected to reach $:15() million to $:i71 million during the l‘>90 fiscal year and could climb to as much as $-i.r>() mil lion next year, according to William T Dixon, a spokesman for Westinghouse Hanford. Cleanup costs eventually could reach $1 billion a year, according to the U.S. Depart ment of Energy. "We want to make sure Ore gon businesses know a!>out that and can capture their fair share of business opportunities" at Hanford, Dixon said. Purchases of all goods and services by the federal Depart ment of Energy and the major contractors amounted to $215 million during fiscal year 1989. Dixon said. OREGON BUNGEE MASTERS 4>. t