4—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 20,1978
Clinger says charges distract from 'real issues'
By MOLLY HERRING
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Republican candidate for the 23rd
Congressional district recently said he resents
being called a “special interest candidate” last
Friday by incumbent U.S. Representative
Joseph S. Ammerman.
The attack against William Clinger, a Warren
attorney and Ammerman’s opponent in the Nov.
7 election, came during a fund-raising dinner at
Gatsby’s Restaurant which featured the visiting
Vice President Walter Mondale.
Clinger said in an interview that being called a
special interest candidate by Ammerman is a
“red herring,” a distraction from the real issues.
“The thing I resent about the charge is that it
implies I’ve sold out or I’m going to vote the way
they (oil and gas companies) tell me to,” Clinger
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“I have received a fair amount of money from
oil and gas interests,” Clinger said. (A full
financial report from the Federal Election
Commission has not yet been received by The
Daily Collegian.) “But the point of it is I think
they’re just upset because Ammerman has voted
against all their interests. He’s voted 100 percent
against the oil and gas industry.”
Supporting the oil and gas industry in the 23rd
district is important because many jobs in the
district are dependent on oil and gas, Clinger
said.
Clinger also said that since drilling wells is so
expensive, the companies need some incentives,
and one should be deregulation of gas, phased in
over three years.
"I have yet to see a fat cat oil and gas producer
fly over Palestinian camp in Lebanon
early evening, drawing intense bursts of anti-aircraft fire from
Palestinian guerrilla positions.
One guerrilla official claimed the aircraft had intended to
attack the camp.
Several Israeli boats were also sighted off the southwest
Lebanese coast, a Lebanese reporter in the area said.
None of the planes were hit. There was also no immediate
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in the 23rd Congressional district,” Clinger said.
“I’ve seen a lot of independent producers out
there not getting rich, but just trying to get some
energy out of the ground. You take one heck of a
chance when you drill a well.”
Refering to an alleged Ammerman remark
that Clinger is in the “vest pockets of the fat
cats,” Clinger said, “If I see some issues that I
think are going to unfairly line the pockets of fat
cats, I’ll vote against them just as fast as he will.
In fact, maybe faster.”
Clinger also defended himself against an
Ammerman statement that the Republican’s
contributions are masked behind vague names
that hide the real identity of the contributor.
“We report them just the way we get them,”
•Clinger said. “I have probably got bver 900
contributors to this campaign at this point. Some
report of any aerial or sea bombardment or any casualties at
Ain Helweh.
It was not immediately clear what prompted the reported
overflights. But Israel often sends reconnaissance jets over
the Palestinian-dominated southern quarter of Lebanon.
Israeli troops invaded and occupied the area for three months
earlier this year.
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“Ammerman got $5,000 from the auto workers’
union,” Clinger said. “I’m certainly not
suggesting that he’s a tool of the auto workers’
union because he got $5,000 from them.”
Calling his largest campaign expense
television and other media, Clinger estimated he
will be spending from $25,000 to $30,000 of his own
money.
The election probably will cost about $150,000
for Clinger, the Warren attorney estimated. That
figure is about - $lOO,OOO lower than what Am
merman said Clinger would spend. Ammerman
estimated his expenses w.ould be $lOO,OOO,
Clinger said.
But Clinger said Ammerman’s use of the
franking privilege by sending pieces of mail to
all of his constituents for free means the
cumbent is avoiding mailing fees of about !
$40,000. Taxpayers fund the Congressmen’s ;
franking privilege.
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to spend, it’s going to be about the same as me. ” rJ
Clinger refuted the Ammerman attacks by : -
making some of his own observations. He-*
criticized Ammerman for not being in' •
Washington last weekend to vote on a number of ; j
significant bills.
“I happen to know that he was in State College
Friday night. I think he could have been in
Washington on Saturday morning and I think he
should have cast votes on the energy bill and taxi
cut. Those are very important votes. If he’s able
to campaign in State College on Friday, I think,,
he can vote in Washington on Saturday.”
In Tel Aviv, Israeli sources denied the report,
On the southeast fringe of Beirut, sporadic shellfire resumed -
last night for the first time since an Oct. 7 cease-fire ended !
fighting between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Israelis
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But they said there was no immediate resumption of fulltj
scale,battles, nor immediate reports of casualties. '
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