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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
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from around the coun
try
The group and its
screeching ad (23 excla
mation points punctuate
Gargan's battle cry)
have been featured re
cently on a handful of
national TV news pro
grams. including "CBS
Evening News." "In
side Edition." "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
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I I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT
| GOjNG TO TAKE FT ANYMORE!
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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.
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