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IN FOCUS
Today’s FOCUS page will highlight Athens-Clarke County unified
government elections. Commission seats In focus are Districts
3,4,7,9 and 10. which affect University students. Also featured
are the state Agriculture and Insurance Commission seats.
The Red and Black • Wednesday, October 31, 1990 • 3
FOCUS
Candidates speak about University-related issues
Kilpatrick: Dist. 7
Daniel: Dist. 7
Guest: Dist. 7
District 7
Name: Cardee Kilpatrick
Age: 51
Occupation: Athens City Council
member, Ward 2
Education: Pamona State College
(Calif.), master’s degree at Stanford Uni
versity.
Issues: Kilpatrick supports historic
preservation and voted for extended al
cohol hours. She is disappointed with the
open-container ordinance because it is se
lectively enforced. However, she said she
has to study the issue more before
making a decision on its future.
Name: Danny Daniel
Age: 42
Occupation: Owner of Cateraid Food-
services
Education: University of Georgia,
bachelor’s degree in business administra
tion with a major in finance.
Issues: Daniel said students have been
overlooked by past governments.
“I want to maintain closer contact with
student activity groups to find out what
areas we could improve,” he said.
Name: Howard Guest
Age: 36
Occupation: Co-owner of Guest
Printing Company
Education: University of Georgia bach
elor’s degree in general business.
Issues: The city and the county have
K icked on students in the last few years,
e said. He isn’t completely opposed to an
open-container ordinance, but he said the
current ordinance is too broad in meaning
and is being selectively enforced.
Chief Elected Officer
Name: George Bullock
Age: 62
Occupation: Owner of Bullock Ford
Tractor, Inc., Clarke County Commis
sioner
Education: University of Georgia, two
years of study in agricultural engi
neering.
Issues: Bullock would like to open up
communication lines with the University
and see students get involved with com
munity service on a volunteer basis.
He said ordinances, like the open con
tainer, need to reach a common ground
and have support from the community.
Name: EJi. Culpepper
Age: 50
Occupation: Vice President of Fulton
Federal Savings Bank
Education: University of Georgia Law
School graduate.
Issues: Culpepper said students should
get involved in the political process be
cause they have the perfect opportunity
during the formation of the new govern
ment.
He said he views the University com
munity and its students as part of the
total picture of how the government and
the people can work together.
Name: Jim Holland
Age: 62
Occupation: President of Landmark
Engineering Corporation and County
Commission Chairman
Education: Georgia Institute of Tech
nology, bachelor’s degree in civil engi
neering
Issues: Holland said there needs to be a
liaison between the students and the new
government to bring student concerns to
the attention of officials so they can prop
erly address them.
He doesn’t see any need for an open
container ordinance “right offhand.”
Name: Nathan Williams
Age: 59
Occupation: Owner of Nathan Wil
liams Insurance Agency, 2nd Ward City
Council Member
Education: University of Georgia,
bachelor’s degree in business administra
tion.
Issues: Williams said that students are
part of the community and are given con
sideration and every opportunity to dis
cuss issues that come up in the
government.
He said the reason for having an open
container ordinance is that the police de
partment requested one.
‘The police department requested it to
have a little better control of potential
problems.*
Name: Jim McGown
Age: 44
Occupation: Computer aide at Barrow
Elementary School
Education: McGill University (Mon
treal), bachelor’s degree in political sci
ence, sociology University of Georgia,
graduate study in foods and nutrition.
Issues: McGown would like to see the
student liaison program between the Uni
versity and local government increase
from one student to two or three.
“I’ve said I’m in favor of an open-con
tainer ordinance and uniform enforce
ment,* McGown said.
Name: Gwen O’Looney
Age: 42
Occupation: 5th Ward City Council
member
Education: University of Georgia,
bachelor’s degree in sociology, psy
chology.
Issues: O’Looney said she wants to
open up communication lines with the
University.
She said she would like to find a way to
use the expertise and resources available
from the University to help solve commu-
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Davis: Dist. 4
nitv problems like environmental issues.
O’Looney said ordinances like the open
container should be taken off the books if
they can’t be fairly enforced.
‘The University is a real asset to the
community* she said. “It keeps me
young.*
District 9
Name: Richard Stone
Age: 37
Occupation: Purchasing officer for the
Clarke County School District
Education: 1975 graduate of the Uni
versity in marketing.
Issues: Stone said the new government
should work as a “pipeline of dialogue*
bringing people to work together.
Stone believes there is a need for an
open-container ordinance, but some ex
ceptions could be made during festive ac
tivities, he said.
Name: Tom Chasteen
Age: 43
Occupation: owner of independent in
surance agency
Education: Franklin County High
School diploma.
Issues: Chasteen said he is categori
cally opposed to the selective enforcement
of any ordinance.
‘That applies to zoning and open-con
tainers,* he said. “If it’s on the books, it
should be strictly enforced.”
Name: Harry Sims
Age: 41
Occupation: Elementary school teacher
and 1st Ward City Council Member
Education: University of Georgia, edu
cation degree.
Issues: Sims said he would like to con
tinue having a student liaison to the gov
ernment to represent the students.
Sims said the open container ordinance
needs to be reassesed and made more
“workable" than it is now.
“I’m looking forward to working with
students,* he said. “I’ve been one and
know what it’s like to feel left out."
Name: Regero Sampson
Age: 38
Occupation: Territorial sales manager
for AT&T computer systems
Education: University of Georgia, jour
nalism degree and master’s degree in so
cial work, MIT, AT&T computer science
program
Issues: Sampson wants to bring the
community together. He is in favor of his
toric preservation and environmental re
cycling. He added that he would support a
tree ordinance if it could be enforced.
Sampson said he is against the open-
contaner ordinance because it is only se
lectively enforced.
Dioguardi: Dist. 4 Barrow: Dist. 4
Stubbs: Dist. 4
District 3
Name: Linny Bailey
Age: 31
Occupation: Local attorney and 3rd
Ward City Council member
Education: Bachelor’s degree from
Northwestern University,' Chicago, doc
toral degree from the University of
Georgia law school.
Issues: Bailey said in the past some
have viewed students and the community
as separate. He considers the students an
integral part of the community.
Bailey is against an open-container or
dinance. Concerns like litter and crowd
control, covered by the open-container or
dinance, can be dealt with more effecti
vely, he said.
District 10
Name: Will Jackson
Age: 37
Occupation: Night manager at Kinko’s
Copies
Education: 1983 University of Georgia
graduate in agriculture and agronomy.
Issues: Jackson said he is against se
lective enforcement of the open-container
ordinance and is in favor of Sunday al
cohol sales in restaurants. He said moral
issues shouldn’t be legislated.
“Students don’t need to be mothered,”
he said.
Name: John Jeffreys
Age: 50
Occupation: Clarke County Commis
sioner
Education: Shaw University (Raleigh,
N.C.), master’s degree in public adminis
tration at the University of Georgia.
Issues: Jeffreys said he wants to de
velop a stronger partnership with the
University.
Those most affected should be in
volved in the discussion,” he said. This
includes students.”
Jeffreys also said that he doesn’t be
lieve in selective enforcement.
Name: Tal Duvall
Age: 57
Occupation: Retired UGA Cooperative
Extension Service director
Education: University of Georgia,
bachelor’s degree in dairy science, mas
ter’s degree in extension education, doc
toral degree of public administration in
political science.
Issues: Duvall said the community
wants new leadership. He believes in
long-range planning for the community.
Duvall said he hasn’t made a decision
on the open-container ordinance.
“I don’t have a closed mind toward any
of the issues,” he said. “I’ll weigh all ordi
nances — determine which side is better.”
District 4
Name: Scott Davis
Age: 25
Occupation: Owner, Athens Sugar
Bowl and president, Athens Ventures
Ltd.
Education: bachelor’s degree in busi
ness, University of Georgia; master’s de
gree in business administration,
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Issues: Davis would work to make
Athens competitive while preserving its
Classic City image, he said.
Information on voter registration
should be included in orientation at the
University, he said.
Name: Michael Dioguardi
Age: 23
Occupation: Assistant manager, Red
and Black Package Store
Education: Junior economics miyor.
Issues: "With unification we can have
closer ties between the city, county and
the University,” Dioguardi said.
He worked on the charter commission
for the unified government last year and
is familiar with the issues the unified
government will face, he said.
Dioguardi favors strong zoning ordi
nances and police protection, but his
main concern is the protection of indi
vidual rights.
Name: John Barrow
Age: 34
Occupation: Local attorney with Win-
bum, Lewis and Barrow
Education: University of Georgia,
bachelor’s degree in history and political
science; doctoral degree, Harvard Law
School.
Issues: Barrow considers neighborhood
protection, historic preservation and
public safety ns some of the top priorities
in the election, he said.
District 4 constituents would be
against alcohol sales on Sunday, so he
would vote against it if the issue were
presented, he said. He favors a refer
endum on the issue to let the people de
cide.
Name: Thomas Stubbs
Age: 22
Occupation: Student
Education: Senior political science
major; will receive bacnelor’s degree in
December.
Issues: Stubbs would work to make the
unified government more representative
for all citizens, he said.
Stubbs would work for n balance of the
county’s more lenient policies with the
progressive policies of the city.
The adoption of a county-wide recy
cling program and long-range planning
for solid waste would top his agenda.
Information compiled by Staff Writers
Dana White, Angela Hornsby and Krista
Harris.
Powerful, little-known state offices need voter attention
1TJ
By DAVID JOHNSTON
Opinions Editor
An analysis.
Two powerful state constitu
tional offices that are up for grabs
this year are getting little media
and voter attention.
The state Insurance commis
sioner regulates the insurance in
dustry and small loan companies.
In this race, Democratic nom
inee Tim Ryles is counting on the
strength of his part/s ticket to
beat Republican rival Billy Lovett.
Lovett, a public service commis
sioner who recently switched par
ties, was the early favorite in what
has become tne tightest of
Georgia’s statewide races. Recent
,11s show anything from a dead
isat to an eight-point Ryles lead.
Ryles, who decisively defeated
incumbent Warren Evans in the
August Democratic runoff, was the
administrator of Gov. George Bus-
bee's consumer advocacy office. He
is now the head of the Communica
tions Workers of America’s polit
ical action committee.
With his party’s gubernatorial
and lieutenant gubernatorial can
didates far ahead of their rivals in
most polls, Ryles is betting on
straight party voters to pull him
through. He is using television ads
which prominently display his
party affiliation.
Both candidates promise to
lower auto insurance rates by in
creasing competition in the insur
ance industry. But Lovett and
insurance industry officials argue
that many lawyers are too quick to
advise accident victims to file
costly lawsuits against insurance
companies.
Ryles has been on both sides of
this long-running debate. In 1986,
he opposed any tort reform mea
sures. But he now says that he fa
vors Borne limits on lawsuits.
Predictably, attorneys have lined
up behind Ryles, while the insur
ance industry executives favor
Lovett.
The state agriculture commis
sioner regulates food, farmer’s
markets, grocery stores, pillow and
mattress manufacturers, gasoline
pump inspectors, exterminators,
slaughter houses, fertilizer and
scales.
Incumbent Democrat Tommy
Irvin is facing a challenge from Re
publican Raymond Young, a retired
Sylvester veterinarian.
Irvin was appointed to the office
by then Gov. Lester Maddox in
1969 and has soundly beaten every
subsequent challenger. Irvin is
known as a partisan Democrat who
always campaigns hard for the rest
of his party’s ticket.
Bill Thome, executive director of
the Georgia Republican Party,
calls Irvin a "political animal,"
while Charlie Shroder. Thome’s
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