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- Wednesday, July 6,1994"H0u5t0n Times-Journal
Page 10A
Dorough seeking seat being
vacated by J. Roy Rowland
By VETO F. HOLEY
SUN Writer
Concern motivates Bo Dorough
to seek the Eighth District seat in
Congress.
"I am concerned about the direc
tion of government, the economy
and people," said Dorough, a lawyer
from Albany. "I will be a zealous
representative of the people of the
Eighth District," he said.
Like many of his opponents,
Dorough decided to seek the office
when Dr. Roy Rowland decided not
to run for re-election.
"I have a deep sense of public
service," said Dorough, whose un
cle served in Congress. "I under
stand the legislative process
through my education and occupa
tion."
Dorough said the three most im
portant issues facing the district
were "proposed challenges to the
peanut program, '95 BRAC, and,
most importantly, jobs."
"The peanut program is the
mainstay of the agrarian commu
nity of Southwest Georgia," said
Dorough. "I would vigorously
espouse the value of the subsidy to
the people of the United States."
Dorough said that he was con
vinced that Robins Air Force Base
would not be closed by BRAC '95
because "of its strategic and mili
tary importance to the overall de
fense of the nation." However, he
did say that operations and missions
at the base could be realigned with
other bases, costing jobs at RAFB.
"(RAFB) is the largest employer
in the district," said Dorough. "You
could not over-estimate the impor
Meredith Pierce named
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To attain this distinction,
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average on a 4.0 grading scale.
Pierce, a graduate of Westfield
Schools, is a rising sophomore at
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tance of the base to the district." He
added that he would work with
community and other officials to
convince BRAC '95 that RAFB
"should not be placed on the list,
and that it is vital to the defense of
the nation."
"Education and employment are
inextricably linked," said Dorough.
"You can't talk about one without
the other.
"Our public school systems
should be ever conscious of the de
mands of the economy," Dorough
said, adding that the United States
was no longer an industrial society,
even though many blue collar jobs
remained.
Dorough said the future of
American jobs depended on Ameri
can workers learning technology.
"As trade barriers come down, it
will be much easier for Third World
countries to usurp many American
jobs," said Dorough. "We have to
understand, especially in the South,
that we can no longer attain jobs
with pools of unskilled labor and
promises of low wages."
Even with the need for better
public education, Dorough said that
more funding was not necessarily
the answer. "We spend more, per
capita, on students today than at
any time in the past," he said, "and
dissatisfaction with the public
school systems has never been
greater."
Dorough also said that he was
not for initiatives that took away
control of the school systems from
local and state officials. "I think ed
ucation is best engineered at local
first chartered women’s college,
Hollins is regarded as a leader in
liberal arts education, with
nationally acclaimed programs in
creative writing and psychology.
Hollins ranked in the 1994 edition
of the Princeton Review Student
Access Guide first in “Best quality
of life,” first in “Professors bring
material to life” (best faculty), first
in “Things, run smoothly” (best
administration), and first in “Happy
students.”
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Bo Dorough
and state levels,” he said. "I'm
wholehearted opposed to further en
croachment on the sovereignty of
the states and the federal system of
government ”
The budget deficit is the "single
most important challenge that this
country faces," said Dorough.
While he is against the balanced
budget amendment, calling it an
"Republican gimmick," he is for a
super majority of three-fifths to au
thorize deficit spending.
The Eighth District includes part
of Houston County, including
about half of Perry. Perry is split
between the Second and Eighth Dis
tricts.
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