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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 30,1989

Battle over Build Indiana Fund is only thing stopping lottery bill now

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hoosiers wondering when they’ll be able to pick up their first Indiana lottery tickets should have some answers soon. A bill to create a state-run lottery got a big boost Wednesday when the Indiana Senate approved House BUI 1409 43-7. But the proposal still has a few more hurdles to clear before it can become law. THE HOUSE approved H.B. 1409 75-25 last month, but the Senate since has changed the way lottery revenues would be distributed. The House is expected to object to the Senate’s changes and send the bill to a conference committee, where four legislators will try to resolve differences in the two versions of the bill. H.B. 1409 will reach the governor’s desk only after legislators are able to work out an agreement. THE BILL WASs opposed Wednesday by seven Senate Republicans: Virginia M. Blankenbaker, Patricia L. MUler and Morris H. Mills, all from Indianapolis; iidward A. Pease of Brazil; Marvin D. Riegsecker of Goshen; Harold H. Wheeler of Larwill; and Richard W. Worman of Leo. Sens. Joseph C. Zakas, R-Gran-ger, and William H. Vobach, R-In-dianapolis, said they had philosophical concerns about a state-run lottery but voted for H.B. 1409 because Hoosiers want it

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During a statewide referendum last November, 62 percent of Indiana’s voters approved a constitutional amendment to repeal the state’s 137-year-old ban on lotteries. ZAKAS SAID HE questions whether state government should play a role in gambling and is concerned that in some states that have lotteries, “greater promotional efforts are made in poor neighborhoods.” Legislators don’t expect the mechanics of setting up a lottery and getting it into operation are not likely to be points of contention. Both the House and Senate have agreed a five-member commission, appointed by the governor, should oversee a lottery. THEY ALSO HAVE agreed that an instant lottery must be offered by Jan. 1 and more sophisticated games five months later. Sen. Lawrence M. Borst, R-In-dianapolis, said that based on Ken-

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Sen. Borst: “Somebody needs to go out and validate some of the projects that we in the Legislature suggest.”

tucky’s progress in setting up a lottery, it’s possible Indiana could be selling lottery tickets as early as this fall. The conflicts are expected to center on how lottery revenues will be allocated. The Senate version of the bill, like the House version, calls for lottery revenues to go into Gov. Evan Bayh’s proposed Build Indiana Fund. Money from that fund would finance one-time capital improvement projects such as roads, bridges and government buildings. WHEN THE BILL left the House, it did not specify how the money would be disbursed from the fund. The Senate version of H.B. 1409 would have 25 percent of the revenues go to local governments through a revennue-sharing plan.

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Long’s career now has an up to go with the downs

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Many politicians might dread an up-and-down career. Democrat Jill Long has reason to relish one. In two election campaigns, she had known only the down side of politicking, losing by landslide margins. But in Indiana’s 4th District, the political career of the 36-year-old business professor has taken its first upturn. LONG OVERCAME campaign visits by Vice President Dan Quayle and Barbara Bush to defeat GOP candidate Dan Heath Tuesday and capture Quayle’s old House seat. Just five months ago, she was buried by a 50,000-vote margin amassed by Rep. Dan Coats, her second landslide defeat in as many attempts. While Quayle’s 60-40 victory

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The General Assembly would allocate the remaining 75 percent of the money to particular capital improvement projects. The Senate approved that change in H.B. 1409, along with 51 others, during a 90-minute discussion on Tuesday. Forty-six of those amendments earmarked more than $223 million in proposed lottery revenues over the next two years ffor specific local projects. THOSE PROJECTS if they survive conference committee negotiations would be made under the Legislature’s authority to allot 75 percent of the revenues. Some legislators have questioned whether the lottery could raise enough revenues to support all of the projects already attached to H.B. 1409. Others have said the lottery could raise up to S3OO million in annual revenues once it’s in full swing. Borst, a sponsor of the bill and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Wednesday that he doubts the state can expect more than S9O million the first year and $l5O million dollars in subsequent years. Borst also said the conference committee needs to add language to specify how projects would be selected to receive lottery revenues and who would determine the amount of money actually needed for each project. “Somebody needs to go out and validate some of the projects that we in the Legislature suggest,” Borst said.

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over Long in the 1986 Senate race sent her back to her parents’ farm, his triumph Nov. 8 ironically reopened the door on Long’s political career. REALIZING THAT Coats was a possible replacement for Quayle’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat, Long kept her campaign organization together. She began making the contacts that gained national Democratic support for her ultimately successful run after Coats accepted the appointment. Only Quayle’s career sounds as improbable. In 1976, Quayle was 28 when he challenged five-term Democratic incumbent J. Edward Roush for the 4th District seat. Republicans held out little hope, but Quayle surprised his own supporters and defeated Roush. FOUR YEARS later, Quayle

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SEN. GREG SERVER Similar to zoning

House panel votes 8-3 to kill Wetlands proposal

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A controversial wetlands regulation proposal supported by environmentalists but opposed by farmers has been defeated in an Indiana House committee. After 90 minutes of testimony and debate Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee voted 8-3 against Senate Bill 16. The measure had previously passed the Senate on a 27-21 vote. THE BILL WOULD have required landowners to obtain permits before altering certain wetlands the typically swampy or marshy areas where water naturally collects either seasonally, permanently or intermittently. Supporters claimed the bill was needed to prevent further loss of wetlands, which help control flooding and provide a habitat for animals. Indiana once had about 5.6 million acres of wetlands, but now has only 787,000 acres, supporters said. About 5 percent of the remaining wetlands is being lost to development every year, supporters said. SEN. GREG SERVER, an Evansville Republican and author of the bill, said the measure calls “for regulating that land just as we regulate land in the city with zoning.” But opponents of the measure said it would violate a property owner’s rights to do with land as the owner wished. “I don’t see this as a bill about wetlands. This is a bill about private property rights,” said Rep. David A. Wolkins, R-Winona Lake. Farmers and the Indiana Farm Bureau testified against the bill. “I’m concerned you’re going to come and tell me if I can plow a field,” said John Woody, a Lebanon farmer. OTHER LANDOWNERS such as James Howard of Syracuse said they should be compensated if the state takes away a use of their land. James Barnett of the Indiana Farm Bureau said his organization supported educational programs to encourage voluntary preservation

took on three-term senator Birch Bayh, a folksy and popular politician who had flirted with a presidential run. Again Quayle was given little chance, and again he surprised political experts when Bayh was swept away in the tide of Ronald Reagan. When Quayle phoned his congratulations Wednesday to Long, he reminded her that his unblemished winning record was the exception to most political careers. / Long’s political career began six years ago on the Valparaiso city council. In 1981, she had accepted a teaching post at Valparaiso University, a Lutheran liberal arts college in Porter County, after completing a doctorate in business from Indiana University. FEW POLITICIANS, she decided, knew much about business and finance. “I decided at the time, with my background, I would probably do very well.” From the obscurity of a council seat in a city of 22,000, Long suddenly launched herself into a U.S. Senate race. When Democratic frontrunner Louis Mahem, a state senator from Indianapolis, suffered a heart attack and dropped out, Long entered a party caucus battle

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of wetlands. But some supporters of the bill said that wouldn’t work. Knox County farmer Ray McCormick, noting 34 states have wetlands protection laws, said those statutes are needed to keep farmers and developers from bulldozing over, wetlands and selling the land. “WE HAVE A wetlands bill not because of what could happen but because of what has happened in covering over wetlands,” he said. The bill also drew support from former U.S. Rep. Elwood “Bud” Hillis, the Izaak Walton League* Hoosier Environmental Council,;National Wildlife Federation and - Indiana Wildlife Federation. To try to appease critics of the * bill, Sen. Vi Simpson, an Ellet- • tsville Democrat and co-sponsor of the measure, proposed several changes in the bill. One change would have given • decision-making authority for wet- - lands regulation to the Soil Conservation Board, rather than the Department of Natural Resources as called for in earlier drafts of the bill. ANOTHER CHANGE would have exempted from regulation agricultural land that had been farmed at any time during the--previous 20 years, and a third change would have given landowners a tax break on acreage voluntarily designated as a protected wetlands area. .; Those amendments were adopted but the bill still went down to defeat with five Democrats and three Republicans voting against it. •. After the bill was rejected, Simpson said she was not surprised but instead was heartened that the measure advanced as far it did through the legislative process. “This is an issue that takes a lot of courage to vote for,” said Simpson, who said she doubted she would try to revive the measure by attaching it to another bill later in: the current session. “It’s really an educational' process,” she said. “These are things that take time.”

and emerged the winner. She handily defeated an extremist opponent in the primary*, election, but her race failed to win * support even from state labor organizations. The fall campaign. moved haltingly on a shoestring* * budget, and Long pronounced herself pleased that the margin of defeat wasn’t wider. WITH HER PARENTS in financial difficulty on their Whitley County farm in the 4th District Long moved back to help them sort out the trouble. She resumedteaching at Indiana University-Pur-due University at Fort Wayne. She remains close to her family and likes to trace her Democratic roots through a family anecdote she has been repeating at least since 1986. In 1960, she says, her father promised a baby brother if John F. Kennedy won the White House and improved the farmers’ lot. “So I worked really hard on that campaign, and I wore my KennedyJohnson buttons plastered all over my jacket,” she said. “I got him elected. At least I thought I did. The next summer I got my baby brother, and I’ve been a Democrat ever'. since.” rl

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