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THE BANNERGRAPHIC December 27,1990

Census politics

Potent California: More votes than 21 states combined

WASHINGTON (AP) politics of the future, California will exercise more clout than any smoke-filled room of politicians ever did. California emerges from the 1990 census as a political behemoth, with 52 House seats, a population bigger than Canada’s and 20 percent of the electoral votes needed to be elected president. ADD TOGETHER the congressional representation of 21 states and they still will total fewer than the delegation from California, which swells by seven in 1992, the result of a 26 percent surge in population in the last 10 years. The news is nothing but promising for Republicans. California hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964; no one has won the White House while losing California since 1912, when Democrat Woodrow Wilson lost the state but defeated Bull Mooser Theodore Roosevelt and Republican William Howard Taft anyway. REPUBLICANS can find more cheer in most of the other shifts in political power ordered up by the population figures released by the

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SEN. ALPHONSE D’AMATO Gaining challengers?

Census Bureau chi Wednesday. The industrial Northeast and Midwest will lose standing in Congress and the electoral college. The West, the South and the Sun Belt, increasingly Republican, gain. “The political consequences advantage the Republicans,” summed up Stephen Hess, political analyst at the Brookings Institution, a Washington research organization. THE CENSUS SETS the stage, as well, for brutal redistricting battles from coast to coast, promising

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to generate nasty colleague-versus-colleague races in some of the 13 states where the number of House seats must shrink. New York will suffer the biggest loss, three seats, and on the streets of Brooklyn, that could come down to a brawl between two Democratic incumbents, Reps. Charles Schumer and Stephen Solarz. They may have to compete for a single seat. It is no coincidence, Hess observed, that Schumer and Solarz have built up campaign warchests in the million-dollar range, each anticipating a costly battle or perhaps a race elsewhere, maybe taking on Republican Alfonse M. D’Amato for his Senate seat. FOUR STATES lose two House members Michigan, to 16; Ohio, to 19; and Pennsylvania, to 21. Eight states will lose one each lowa, down to five; Kansas, to four, Kentucky, to six; Louisiana, to seven; Massachusetts, to 10; Montana, to one; New Jersey, to 13; and West Virginia, to three. Among the gainers are Florida, up four to 23, and Texas up three to 30. And one additional seat in the House will go to five states Arizona, going to six; Georgia, to 11; North Carolina, to 12; Virginia, to 11; and Washington, to nine. BUT IT IS California where the gains are most dramatic. In January 1993, that state will have more representatives than 21 other states combined Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kansas, lowa and Mississippi. All states except the six which now have only one representative Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont

Counties seek simpler local financing

BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) The average citizen cannot understand local government financing laws, according to the Association of Indiana Counties. It wants the next Legislature to look at simplifying and recodifying those laws. “I firmly believe few people can read the tax control statutes and calculate the budget of a unit of government,” said association director Rick Cockrum. STATE SEN. Robert F. Heilman, D-Terre Haute, will introduce a bill calling for a commission to conduct an 18-month study of local government financing, Cockrum said. The association is not seeking to have property tax controls removed, Cockrum said.

West girds for another cold

By The Associated Press The frostbitten West got a brief respite today from cold that ravaged citrus fruit, snapped water pipes and threatened lives, but it

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and Wyoming will have to redraw congressional boundaries. The purpose is to give each representative 572,466 constituents, or as close to that figure as possible. THE CRY OF gerrymandering rigging election lines to favor one party is sure to be heard. In California, the election of Republican Pete Wilson as governor will serve as a check if the Democratic legislature tries to squeeze out Republicans, already outnumbered 27-18. Elsewhere, black leaders in Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas have served notice that they want the new lines drawn to create districts where blacks have substantial majorities and a chance to elect a member of Congress. “We will oppose any friend or fight any foe to ensure that there is a black congressional district in Virginia in 1991,” Jack Gravely, president of that state’s NAACP, announced last fall. CURTIS GANS, director of the non-partisan Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, disputed what he said was the widespread view of the census figures as a “windfall for the Republicans.” Most states that picked up new seats did so because of growing Hispanic populations, Gans said, and he predicted that Hispanics will become increasingly loyal Democrats. “Hispanics of the class that is expanding the population in California, Florida, New Mexico and Arizona tend to vote 2-1 Democratic,” he said. “Eventually that’s going to tell probably within the next decade.” Only in Florida, where CubanAmericans favor conservative candidates, can the Republicans anticipate long-term gains, he said.

“We have had property tax controls in Indiana for 17 years. Every year they have been amended. It has gotten so complex you can’t read the law and try to determine a county’s true budget,” he said. CURRENTLY, SEVEN counties have a food and beverage tax and 14 or 15 have a wheel tax. Other counties have exemptions and other local option taxes that figure into the formula, Cockrum said. “As needs have come along they have been addressed. We want to back up, recodify, simplify and put them in a package so people can understand them,” he said. Cockrum said the study committee should look at • The impact of the revenue con-

still was unusually brisk for the rest of the United States. A mass of warm air spread across parts of Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, California, Oregon,

WILLIAM HUDNUT Sights on ’92 race?

Hudnut is expected to decline fifth term

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - ndianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut will announce today whether he will seek a fifth term as the top elected city-county official in the Hoosier captiol. The Indianapolis Star quoted close advisers to Hudnut as saying he had told them he will not run for re-election but may consider seeking the governorship in 1992. “I THINK IT IS time to clear the air as far as my plans for 1991,” Hudnut said. He scheduled a 2 p.m. news conference to announce his plans. The mayor had hoped to be serving as Indiana secretary of state in 1991, but he lost the Nov. 6 election to Democratic Secretary of State Joseph H. Hogsett. Had Hudnut won that election, he would have been the Republican Party’s best candidate to oppose Democratic Gov. Evan Bayh in 1992. Despite the defeat, many

trols on economic development. • Existing revenue sources. • ~How the controls force counties, cities and towns to borrow money. “IT’S DIFFICULT to accumulate a cash surplus. We have had several units accumulating funds so they would not have to borrow, and the state tax board said, ‘We don’t think that’s appropriate. We’re going to reduce your taxes,’” Cockrum said. Under Heilman’s proposed legislation, the commission would be comprised of eight state legislators, four city or town officials and four private citizens, Cockrum said. It would report back to the Legislature with recommendations.

snap as rest of us shiver

Arizona and Nevada, raising temperatures in some areas by as much as 40 degrees. BUT THE National Weather Service cautioned people not to get used to it. Forecasters say a new cold front, as chilly as the last one, will hit Washington full force by this evening and move south, reaching Southern California by the weekend. Snow fell in Spokane, Wash., early today. “It will be just as cold and the roads will get just as sloppy and iced over,” said Carl Cemiglia a weather service meteorologist in Washington. “People should be prepared with snow tires and chains.” BEFORE THE last cold front dissipated, most of Washington was paralyzed by heavy snowfall, broken water pipes and gas lines, traffic gridlock and other weather woes. California was socked with

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STEPHEN GOLDSMITH A clear path to city hall?

Republicans believe Hudnut continues to be their party’s best candidate to oppose Bayh. HUDNUT HAS BEEN Indianapolis mayor since 1976, the longest anyone has held the post His expected decision not to seek a fifth term clears a path for outgoing Marion County Prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith to seek the Republican nomination for mayor. Goldsmith, in anticipation of Hudnut’s election as secretary of state, had begun campaigning to be named his successor. He suspended those efforts when Hudnut lost. State Sen. Louis J. Mahem is the only announced candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor. Former Marion County Sheriff James L. Wells and Hoosier Lottery Director John R. Wcliever have said they are thinking about running for the Democratic nomination for mayor.

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SEN. ROBERT HELLMANN Creating a study commission

hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural losses and workers preparing for the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena on New Year’s Day had to scramble to find replacements for wilted flowers. Frozen water pipes burst all over the West, even in normally nonfreezing areas, like California’s seaside Santa Cruz area. The state capital of Sacramento recorded seven consecutive days of record low temperatures, including a 23 on Wednesday. OTHER RECORD lows set around the nation Wednesday were: Aberdeen, S.D., 29 degrees below zero; Albuquerque, N.M., 5 degrees; and Amarillo, Texas, 5 degrees. Across the nation, the cold spell has caused more than 80 weatherrelated deaths. While the West was much warmer today, more frigid weather was in store for much of the Midwest. East and South..,