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- ( legal abortions and said she feels he got:S along with Reagan admlnhitra- tion policies too often. Baase is , against U.S. military Involvement Ip In the 43rd Dllllricl, which coveni most of the North County and part of Orange County, Ferguson's challenge to Packard in the Republican prima- ry has forced the 53-year-old incum- bent lo plan on spendmg as much as $70,000 by June 5, far more than be originally anticipated. "We net:d to 1nake a strong show- Ing th.is primary In the hope of elimi- nating the need for primary cam- paigning," said Packard. , Ferguson, 53, a San Marcos grand- mother who, la addition. to her Joh with Eckert, owns a property man- agement business, described Pack- ard as an "ineffective" freshman congressman. She criticized him for failing to get prompt congressional fund.mg commitments for construc- tion of Santa Margarita Dam and for · not taking a strong stand agairu,t the the proposed San Diego-Los Angeles high-speed bullet_ttalrr. . Thill year's 43rd District" race is a far cry from the past two stormy primaries. In 1980, Tom Metzger, a J{u Klux Klan leader from Fall brook, won7he Democratic primary, but was overwhelmed in - the general election by jncumbent Burgener. Then there was I.lie 1982 1 brouhaha featuring Crean. Although U1e 43rd is heavily Re- publican, three Democrats are run- ning in tl1e primary. . Lois Humphreys, 37, president of the board of the Leucadia County Water Dis~ricl, has support from mainstream Democrats. She criti- cized Packard for opposing · the Equal Rights Amendment, and said , he had not achieved muc~ during his include Kevin E. Schmidt, a 29-year-old Vista civil engineer running as a LaRouche Democrat, and Randall Toler, 27, of Huntington Beach, an anti-nuclear activist. Although Toler is registered as a Democrat, he is acllve in the USA Green Party and describes bimself as a radical in support of a variety of envirorunenlal causes. • l Schmidt said he advocates LaRouche's policies because they would stimulate a level of technolo- gy aad economic aid that would eventually provide for the needs of the world's population. Phyllis Avery, -i7, a Libertarian living in Oceanside who wll"l'tras, a political researcher, also is challeng- ing Packard. She supports a balanced budget amendment and a substantial. cut in ·the size of the ,government, wbicb she describes as ",oppressive, almost dictatorial." · I I ' / freshman term in Congress. Her primary opponents

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' focusing more on Lowery than on his Uiree Dcmocral1c opponen(l;, home- maker Linda Carblon, retired den- tist Norman E. Mann and ~c11:11Ust Daniel Hu~lcller. He cnl1cw:J Lowery for support- ing m aburcs that increase nucle r weapow, wlticlt Simmons desc-ribt:d as "a danger to my five sous' fu- tures," and for voting io Congress against an Equal Rights Ameudmeot bill. He allio said he believes Lowery hasn't dont! enough to proled the San Diego coastllne from offshore oil drilling and critici.i:ed the co11,:r1:SS• man for not coming out agaui:st the bullet tram. ' Lowery said he didn't vole agamst the conctpt of an Equal Rights Amendment, whicL he suppor(l;, but .,.did object to a proc..-dure that would r have limited debate on the flwr of the House, and he vot..d against that. Lowery defonded his efforts to keep oil ngs from ~pringing up ..long lb~ San Diego coast.line, as lhe Reagan ad111i11istration had pro- posed. He s.iid be, along with the re:;t of the Sao Diego congressional dele- gation, helped pw;h through lhe pas- sage of a moratorium on oil dnlling within 15 mil~ of the coast. Another pro~ptetive Lowery oppQ- nent, Caru.lon, 44, who mov..d to Clairemont from the Pasadena area in Janua ry, b a support.er of Lyndon LaRouchc, the onetime Marxist turned Dernocratk pre.sidentia I can- didate who favon. high techuology, revitalizing b.lhlc industries aud de- velopment of a laser-beam ddense system. Her husband, Peter, also is running for Congress, agairu,L Hep. Jim Bates, D-San Diego, in the 44th District. Ho~tett.er, 43, a scientil;t currently building prot1.1type cars for Chrysler Corp./ is making bis second cougres- sional bid. lit! ran unsuccessfully in the 41st DIStrict in 1970, then dropped out of polHic~ until his ch.Udren bad grown. Hostetter said be worked 10 years with Lockb«•e.d' missile ,ilD~ space division bul irew disillusioned by the work on weaporu, systems. He op- poses the proliferation of nuch:ar arms a.nd U.S. military involvement in Central America.

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Orange County millionaire Johnnie Crean emerged lhe wwuer after a vitriolic camp.tign, with Pac ard a • close second. But Packard went on in the general election lo lx'Come the fourth persoi. in b.istory I.A:> win a con- gressional seat as a write-in canili- dat.e. Three Democrats are vying in the Ord District primary, and four in the ,1st. Each incumbent al.so will face a Libertarian opponent 111 Lhe general election. Despite the crowded field of cor,- tenders, only one of the challengen;, Robert L Simmons, a Democrat run- ning in the 41st DJ.Strict, rabed and spent enough to file a contribution st.at.ement for the first quarter of 191H. . He reported about $15,000 in con- tributions, i.Dcludmg a $-4,000 loan from himselt to lus campaign. Lowery, wbo won two years ago with more than two-thirds of lhe vote and is running in a heavily Ref>Ubli- cao disLricl, says be has collected more than $100,000 in donations. A veteran campaigner at the age of rT - he started volunteer work w1tL Republican candidates at the age of 12 - Lowery visited his di.strict 25 times la.st year, conducted town ball 111eetings and mailed out many newsletters. Nevertheless, l<>j:al Democratic leaders insist that the 41st has be- come a "winnable district" for a Democrat because of the way its boundaries were redrawn. The new borders shrank the Re- publican edge in tbe ilst from 10,1>55 voters last November to 5,880 last week. The district encompasses a large portion of central San Diego, Mira Mesa, Rancho Penasquitos and coastal communities from Point Loma to Solana Beach. Democratic candidate Simmons, 56, a professor of law a.1 Ult ~rsi- . ty of San Die~o, is getting enthusias- tic backing from San Diego's Demo- cratic establishment. He moved to San Diego 12 years ago, after serving ' eight years as a- judge in Lake Coun- , ty, Ohio, near Cleveland. He was a co-founder of the San Carlos area council, and a co-founder of UCAN, a consumer organization on the alert for questionable ut1hty rate bikes. He also is a member of a legal team opposing the high-speed bullet train proposed to run between San Diego a11d Los Angeles. ' In 1978, a rare virus left Simmons , · totally blind. He adjusted, conlinued bis teaching career and says his han- dicap would not binder him if he's elected. !n the primary campaign, he's

"I've talked to a number of San Diego industries: Pacific Bell, Aerojet General and others. They are all very en- thu iastic about taking part," &he~ says. " . Another idea proposed by &henk 1s the concept of quality panels." These gatherings of manage_rs and staff per~?nnel re held to discuss and solve a smgle problem. Staff members feel they are a part of things and work better toward common goal when they have a chance to talk about the goal," &henk explained. . _ Concerning the size of government m San Diego County, Schenk sees a need to expand certain departments. "Cuts made in the Department of Management and the Budget were penny-wise but pound-foolish. By adding analys1:5 to that staff, particularly in the fields of personnnel and t~s~g, ~e would be able to save money in the long run by bnngmg m better, more efficient workers," she noted. With regard to possible cuts in county staffing, &henk senses a need for reductions, but chooses not to be specific. "I need to get into it first," she explained. . . . &henk looks at the June 5 primary as Just the begmmng of the long road to the County Supervisor position. "If anybody can get the 50 percent (and negate the need for a runoff elec- tion) I can; but it's just not realistic," she said. The candidate is an enthusiastic supporter of the Sander project, which calls for th~ conversion of garbage int? energy. " e need to dispose of this garbage; and we 're runrung out of holes in which to put it. There is a potential danger to the en- vironment with the burning of the material. We have to be very careful here," she cautioned. But it is the area of transporation that &henk has adopted as the centerpiece of her campaign. "We have to find alter- native methods of transporting people," she aid. "Van pool- ing was very successful on the state level. We need to beef up our commitment to 'park and ride' facilities and make an in- vestment to expand the trolly system. Let's get on with it now." A strong proponent of improved rail transportion, &henk is nonetheless opposed to the bullet train proposal in its present form. "The route makes no sense,,.. &henk said. She added other concerns that included the impact on the environment, · high financing costs and adverse changes that might result along the coastline. . The county's financial crisis could be solved by an mcrease in the gasoline tax. At present, the state receives 9 cents, of which only 2.33 cents is returned to the county. Schenk would boost the state tax by another 1 to 3 cents with the stipulation that the additional revenues would be funneled back to the county. Finally, Schenk is telling voters that her experience on the state level will reap big dividends if she is elected county supervisor. "I am effective with the legislature in Sacramen- to," she says. "I know how the game is played."

(Editor' is an attorney and bu ,n •~ \lom.1n withe.; ten ·ive government experience. She ha rvcd u &cn:tary of California's Bw;i.riess, 7hw portatirm and llou ·ingAgency under Governor Edmund Brown Jr., worked a, Deputy State Attorney General and ervt.'ll a a mor taff advi or to Vice President Nelson Ifockcfcller. Schenk al o helped found the Women's Bank of San Di go and i. presently a trustee of the Clairemont Univer- ity Center. ,lmong her achie~·ements, Schenk has been named " Outstanding Young Citizen" by the San Diego Jaycees and " Outstanding1..awyer in Government" by the San Diego Trial umyer ·' As ociation. he was also honored by the B'nai B'rith for out ·tandinggovernment service. Schenk currently rve · on the 1984 San Diego Olympic Torch Relay Commit- tee. the Advi ory Board of the National Confere11ce of Chris- thin and Jews, the Red Cross Boa.rd and Californians to Pre- ve11t Violence. Schenk has lived in the 3rd District for most of the pa.st 17 year.· and is married to Hugh Friedman, a la"Yer and pro- fessor of faw i1t the Univer. ity, f San Diego School of Law.) note: l,ynn Schenk, 39, " ' tru ture is the key to good county government. I can pro- vide that." say I.yun &henk, a candidate who relies on her high-level government experience to entice voters. "Clearly, we are t a point of chaos in the county," she said. "We arrived there through erosion of a common agenda. We urc ta standstill to deliver the needed services." "Our biggest need is to provide leadership," &henk added. "There is a very low morale level. We have more than 10,000 county employees;they shouldn't be treated like welfare recipients." henk's strongest credential in the management area is her five-year stint as head of the California Agency of Husines , Transportation and Housing. In that post, he manag d more than 32,000 employees and a yearly budget of nearly $2 billion. lany of the ideas &henk brings to the campaign are plans and programs she implemented at the state level Among the more innovative suggestions is a scheme she calls "partners in management." It involves bringing in middle management people from successful local firms to assist county managers m developing more efficient operations. These outside managers would not be paid by the county, but rather would represent contributions by their companies toward the goal of better county government.

San Bernardino, CA (San Bernardino Co.) The Sun Mann is running for Congrc~ for the second time, having also been a candidate 14 years ago. Mann, who worked three year:; as a volunteer dentist in Lsrael, says he wanw; to eliminate nuclear weapons, strength- en Social Security and Medicare and balance the fcderal budget by put- ting a lid 011 the national debt celling. In November, Lowery also will face Sara Baasc, 37, a Lillcrt.anan candidate who has been a profcs:;or · of computer science at San 01_!:go Sli\t!! Uniyer~ity for 12 years. She criticized Lowery for oppos~ng :3i,.n. f8'i8's pesticide manag:u~v:U~t poisotr~,~~,!~c~way~~L!:~i he principal respons1b1hty of the Cahforma Such adverse effects "stress an urgent need to safety data 1S_a t~ade secret u_nless Department of Food and Agriculture is to •iack reduce our reliance on chemical pest controls," says er says otherw1Se, sa;: t~~~epro;:~ss to allow review promote and protect agricultural industry _ the Law Reporter. . Attempts to open P bp inde endent experts At the same time, it is the lead agency m ,.-;;.,'h;~.- fflC farren There are strategies available: lnt~grat~d Pest of health and safe~y Yb thepchemical indus- managmg California's pesticide program. which for Management, a system of integratmg b1?log1cal and have been fo~ig1J_I 1 g Y Y y ar ha been mir d in controversy. Mcfarren is a Gannelt cultural methods into pest-eontrol techmques, could try 0 }f b~lic in. this area is "counterproductive rill s say that constitutes an obvious conflict of /'wws Inc. co,-,-s~ reduce pesticide use by 50 per~ent, exf!ertsdsay. But de fostefs th~ inherent dangers of public igno- mt r t, lcadmg to a pesticide program catering to dent in Sacra••nto. despite legi~lation an~ regulat10_ns des1gne _to pro- ::nee "the ublication contends. agricultural mterests and fading to adequately pro- mote IPM, no sigmficant_ IP~ implemen tah on has While / cites the need for a change, the Law h bl· yet occured "says the publication. . . . t t t e pu ic. . . - . "--------- 'ds h- . b CDFA is "overtly in· Reporter's tone is not opt1m1st1c. . . That po itton 1 convmcmgly presented m the _lat- It co~~en t IS IS _ecause . which is At the federal level, control of pest1c1des was e edition of the California Law Reporter, a publica• Pesticide use bas soared in California. Each year, f,luenced _b\ i:i agric~ltu~ep;~fl~~~!~ long-term shifted from the Department of Agriculture to the uon of the Center for Public Interest Law at the at least 1,000 pesticide-related illnesses are reported m~re motiva e ( ~con mi Environmental Protection Agency. But at ~he ~ta!e t.;m, er tty of an DiClO School oU,aw. to doctors. Thousands of other cases go unreported, envtroni:nental goa s. le The Law Reporter cites of level, says the publication, CDFA's "pesticide Juris- Citrng examples, the publication concludes that health officials say. wh~ei~ec!l~~~~~~Pindustry-oriented attitudes," diction is virtually exclusive,- ... ~eg1slators are ,:e• eff cllve pc tlcide management requlrf:s re_moval _of Wells and groundwater supplies are being poiso!1- Under federal and state law, applicants for new luctant to encroa~h on CDF_A s pest1c1de ~onoply. that function from CDFA. The alternative 1s ~ontm ed. Some experts say the state's lush San Joaqmn f "de re istrations must provide health and safe- "The perenmal campaign contnbutrnns o_f the ued prohferallon of pes~!cide u e and a shorts1ght~d Valley is becoming one big chem!cal ce_sspool. Can- rsd~~ to e~able officials to determine probable ef- farm lobby consistently and succ~ssfully mamtam " griculturally oriented policy placmg mdustry Ill· cer-eausing EDB was discovered m gram products, f~cts on humans. CDFA has interpreted the federal msurmountable barners to change. t rests over public health and safety, 1t says. and dangerous pesticide residues have been found ~-- _____ .- (D. 81,870) (S. 88,143) Y 6 984