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-FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1992
3 retiring lawmakers leaving hefty warchests
By Sharyn Wizda
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 - The
three Georgia lawmakers who have
announced their retirements from
the U.S. House of Representatives
have amassed more than $750,000 in
their collective campaign warchests
- money they won’t need for the 1992
elections.
So what are Reps. Doug Barnard.
D-Augusta. Ed Jenkins, D-Jasper, and
Lindsay Thomas, D-Statesboro, going
to do with it all?
Thomas, who announced Jan. 9
that he will be taking a position with
the 1996 Olympic Committee, will
need almost all of the $65,173 he has
left in his campaign fund to close out
his district office, according to his
spokeswoman Kathleen Rafferty.
"People think that’s a lot of money,
but you just can’t stop paying people
on salary,” she said. “It will also pay
for the lawyers and accountants to
close out the accounts.”
According to documents filed with
the Federal Election Commission,
Thomas raised more than $45,000 in
contributions since July, the majority
of which were from special-interest
political action committees. He got
$2,450 from the National Rifle Asso
ciation, $1,500 from the Southern
Bell Federal PAC, SI,OOO each from
Coca-Cola, Rockwell and General
SCHOOL
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Why a referendum?
Floating a bond - really using long
term financing to fund capital im
provements instead of short-term fi
nancing has long been an issue on
the mind of the leaders in the school
system, said Stone.
“The thing that has held us up was
all the problems with the taxes,” said
Stone. “We didn’t think it was fair to
ask people to support it if we couldn’t
tell them exactly what it would cost
them.”
A growing school system cannot de
pend on the state to take care of its
building needs, said Stone. Surround
ing metro-area counties are constant
ly involved in bond referendums.
Stone said he sees support begin
ning to build among parents of school
age children.
“I also know there are people in the
county who don’t want to pay any
more taxes for anything,” he said.
“I’m sure there will be many people
who will vote against the bonds. But I
believe this is the most important is
sue the school system has dealt with
affecting the welfare of the children
in Forsyth County for a long time.”
Notice to candidates
Official platform statements
on county issues from candi
dates in the special election for
County Commission D-5 seat
are being accepted by the For
syth County News for publica
tion. Deadline to submit an
nouncements is Feb. 14 or
before. Announcements must
be accompanied by a photo
graph and must be no longer
that two typewritten, double
spaced letter-size pages of
copy.
MONSTER
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The four-inch pipe used to drain
rainwater runs underground 25 feet
from his home at 4345 Cross Creek
Trail.
How it was destroyed remains a
mystery to the four-year county
resident
“The animal dug a ditch a foot deep
to get the pipe out,” he said. “I found
48 pieces of pipe ranging from one
inch to two feet long, all tom. How can
an animal tear that apart?”
But the Game and Fish Department
in Gainesville, believes they have the
mystery solved.
“Most likely it would be a dog,” said
Wildlife Biologist E.J. Wentworth.
“It’s not an uncommon thing. The
chipmonk or some kind of small ani
mal crawls in the pipe and the dog
chases it”
Fischer also stated that his best
guess is that the prowler is “some sort
of large dog or cat”
“I don’t know,” he then added. “I’m
a city-boy, not a country-boy.”
Fischer and his wife, who are origi
nally from Germany, moved to the
area to retire and be near their chil
dren who live around metro Atlanta.
He lived in New Jersey, where he
worked as an engineer, for 30 years.
After speaking to his neighbors, he
said he learned others have the same
problem.
“Vne said he had a piw dug up in
his yard.” •*
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Barnard, who announced his re
tirement Oct 5, saved $267,798 during
his 16 years in Congress, FEC records
show. But he’ll be giving most of that
away to candidates for other offices,
according to spokesman Steve Co
hen. For example, he gave SI,OOO to
the campaign of Rep. Marty Russo, D
IIL, who faces a tough re-election
fight in his Chicago suburban district
because of reapportionment Cohen
said.
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pattern.”
Barnard's FEC filings indicate he
received just $3250 in contributions
over the last six months, which in
cludes $1,500 from the Jamaica, N.Y.-
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Most of his campaign fund income
came from interest earned on an ac
count with Robinson Humphrey
American Express in Augusta That
account added $10,326.23 to Bar
nard’s campaign coffers.
Jenkins, another 16-year House
veteran, weighed in with the largest
campaign warchest at $422,045.
His spokeswoman Jackie Sosby
said he’ll be keeping most of that for a
possible 1994 statewide race. Al
though Jenkins, who announced Jan.
22 that he will be returning to his
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end of his term, hasn’t indicated what
race that might be, he has said he
won’t run against an incumbent
Sosby said Jenkins has instructed
his campaign staff to return all of the
individual and PAC contributions he
raised for the 1992 election cycle.
FEC documents show Jenkins raised
nearly $20,000 in contributions last
year, including $2,500 from the Chica
go-based Ameritech PAC, $2,000 from
Columbus’ American Family PAC,
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Like Barnard, most of the money
flowing into Jenkins' campaign fund
came from earned interest Accord
ing to Jenkins’ FEC filing, accounts
with the North Georgia National
Bank, the Jasper Banking Company,
Cherokee Federal Bank and Cres
cent Bank made the campaign nearly
$16,000 in interest
Also like Barnard, Jenkins has be
gun contributing to other candidates’
campaigns. He gave SI,OOO to Russo
and SSOO to Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore.
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