Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 7

LOCALSTATE WEDNESDAY. MAY 14, 1986 BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER BriefsState No campaign violafioin, Lucas says spending money on the primary campaign, which violates state law. "We're not certifying the money because he's not followed the statute," Thomas told a news conference. Thomas said at least three campaign committees were spending money on Lucas' campaign, which he said hampered efforts to ensure the candidate's spending falls within the $1 million limit for gubernatorial candidates who accept public money. But Oakland County Executive Daniel Murphy, who applied for about $100,000 in state matching funds, did qualify for the money, said Thomas, who added: "Nobody's going to get paid until the Legislature gets off the dime and appropriates that money." Thomas also said spending questions asked of Murphy and Blanchard are mostly settled.

Lucas, who had sought $108,472 in state funds, said his officeholder account and local campaign committee were legal committees and questioned how he could violate state law by adding the gubernatorial committee. "I think today's action to deny my matching funds taints the entire public funding process," he said. "I am confident this abuse of authority is intended to influence the election of the Republican nomination for governor. "I'm equally confident that this cynical act will be met with contempt by the voting public" Thomas said the question of when Lucas became a gubernatorial candidate was the key to whether his gubernatorial committee, which reported zero expenditures for 1983, should have claimed about $300,000 reported by his officeholder account, his local campaign committee and a political action committee. Lucas said he wasn't a gubernatorial candidate last year because he hadn't decided what office to seek.

TTte Assoceited Press LANSING Republican gubernatorial hopeful William Lucas says he's considering several responses to elections officials who rejected his application for public campaign money because of an alleged legal violation. "There's no such violation," the Wayne County executive said Tuesday. Lucas, one of five GOP candidates seeking the nomination to challenge Gov. James Blanchard, said he might pass up public money or try to reach some agreement with state elections officials on the issue. The Court of Appeals also could be asked to overturn the rejection, said Richard McLellan, Lucas' attorney.

"Our problem is we don't know what is motivating the secretary of state. We really aren't sure whether we'll be able to resolve this in any way," McLellan said. "We just have a difference of opinion as to what the law says." Elections Director Christopher Thomas said Lucas' application for state money was rejected because he has more than one committee Ex-euxEsry officer convictsd: A former auxiliary police officer from Mendon has been convicted of first-degree murder in die 1985 shooting death of a Three Rivers woman, the St. Joseph County prosecutor's office said in Centre villc. Ricky Lawrence Moore, 24, had been charged with an open count of murder in the shooting death of 26-year-old Linda Sue VanBuskirk on March 26, 1985, said prosecutor's spokeswoman Lynn Wendzel.

The guilty verdict was pronounced Tuesday by George Corsiglia, visiting Allegan County circuit judge, at the conclusion of a week-long trial. No sentencing date was set. Road fstsEtses drop: Preliminary figures indicate a 1 1.7 percent drop in the number of people killed on Michigan roads in the first four months of 1 986 compared with the same period a year ago, the Department of State Police said in Lansing. The figures also show a 19.9 percent drop in the number of people killed where seat belts were available, when compared with 1985 figures, the agency said Tuesday. Michigan's mandatory seat belt law took effect in July 1 985.

State police said 362 people were killed in traffic accidents from January through April, with 226 killed when seat belts were available. That compared to 410 for the first four months of 1985, with 282 having seat belts available. Governor joins wine cooler petition drive: Gov. James Blanchard has signed on with the petition drive that aims to put the question of whether wine cooler containers should be part of Michigan's bottle law before voters in November. "It looks like a bottle, it sounds like a bottle, it ought to be treated like a bottle," Blanchard said at a news conference Tuesday in Lansing, tapping a wine cooler bottle against a table.

Michigan has required deposits on beer and soft drink cans and bottles since 1978, two years after Michigan voters approved a ballot proposal ordering the deposits. For about a year, environmentalists and others have worked to expand the law to include containers of wine cooler, a wine and fruit-juice mixture. 13 pay back taxes: Thirteen delinquent taxpayers used their credit cards to pay back state taxes amounting to nearly $8,000 in the first day of Michigan's tax amnesty program, the state says. "Establishing a program to let delinquent taxpayers pay up with their credit cards is paying off," state Treasurer Robert Bowman said Tuesday. "For some taxpayers, it may be the easiest way to eliminate their tax obligation to the state." Michigan hopes to raise $50 million during the tax amnesty program which runs until June 30.

The money's earmarked to finance the recent state income tax cut from 5.1 percent to 4.6 percent effective March 31. AFL-CIO to back Blanchard: The Michigan AFL-CIO is sure to back a re-election bid by Gov. James Blanchard, although the Democrat has not yet announced his candidacy, the union's president said in Ironwood. Union President San Fishman, on his annual tour of the Upper Peninsula, said Tuesday the process of endorsing a candidate is weeks away. But he says the majority of local union leadership seems to support Blanchard.

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