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NEW ENGLAND Friday, October 26, 1990 Brattleboro Reformer Smith, Sanders are close in fundraising this year TIM not include the roughly $24,000 raised for Smith at a fundraiser this week at which President Bush appeared. They also do not include money given the campaign under a special category of coordinated party contributions. Sanders aide Steven Rosenfeld said Federal Election Commission rules would allow $50,280 to be given to Smith in services such as phone banks and mail campaigns each by the state and national Republican committees, amounts that would not be reflected in the filings. Smith aide David Karvelas confirmed the special category, but said he did not know how much money had come or would come to the Smith campaign from the state or national GOP. He said the state GOP had contributed nowhere near $50,000.

Federal election law requires candidates to name contributors of amounts more than $200, allowing an itemized view of those who give more, but allowing those who give smaller amounts to maintain anonymity. Of Sanders $109,000, more than $70,000 came from individuals giving less than $200. Another $19,960 came from individual contributions of By DAVID GRAM The Associated Press MONTPELIER Bernard Sanders fundraising outpaced incumbent GOP Rep. Peter Smiths by nearly $34,000 during the first two weeks of October, campaign finance reports show. Reports filed with the secretary of states office Thursday show Sanders continues to get the bulk of his campaign money from small contributors, while Smith got more than $60,000 of the $76,000 he received for the period from political action committees or individuals able to contribute more than $200.

Sanders, a leftist independent, raised $109,000 during the reporting period from Oct. 1 to Oct. 17, more than a quarter of what hes raised all year. While Sanders was ahead of Smith for the reporting period and in the year-to-date figures Smith still held the lead for fundraising overall. The Republican began 1990 with $128,000, which he had raised in 1989.

Sanders began the year with nothing in the till. From Jan. 1 to Oct. 17, 1990, Sanders held a narrow edge in fundraising. He had taken in about $377,000 to Smiths $365,000.

The figures released Thursday did more than $200, and more than 60 percent of the money given by those larger contributors to tee Sanders campaign came from out of state. It could not be determined from the reports what percentage of tee smaller contributors to Sanders campaign were Vermont residents. Sanders, who telephoned The Associated Press and said he was on the road and not in his office, said he did not know what percentage of his contributors came from Vermont. I dont have tee figures in front of me. Sanders said his campaign had made extensive use of national progressive mailing and phone networks, and had raised money by making appeals that used subscription lists of the Progressive, In These Times and other leftist magazines.

Sanders won out over Smite in small contributions by a nearly 5-1 ratio for the period, with the Republican drawing about $14,000 from small donors. Smiths larger contributors were mostly Vermonters. Larger contributors to Smith gave nearly $24,000 in early October, with $2,400 of that money coming from out of state. Nearly half the money given to the Smith campaign during the period came from political action committees. PACs gave Smith $36,450, versus about $38,000 given by individuals.

Sanders $19,000 in PAC money came from labor groups. Smites PACs represented a wide range of interests, from the Great Lakes Sugar Beet Growers Association to the National Ready Mix Concrete Association. Parents sue YMCA over molestations Congressional hopefuls win endorsements MONTPELIER (AP) The Rutland Herald has endorsed Bernard Sanders for Congress, while the Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury has complained that the independent wpuld not be effective in Washington. As an independent candidate for the House, Sanders to an increasing extent represents and expresses the frustration of Vermonters of both parties with the federal governments failure to deal with the budget crisis, the Herald said Thursday in an editorial endorsing Sanders.

The St. Johnsbury paper said Sanders would create an initial splash in the national media if elected. But then the novelty would wear off. Bemie would disappear from the tube. And Vermonters would be disenfranchised in the House during the remainder of Ber-nies two-year term.

The endorsement from the Herald, Vermonts second-largest newspaper, was a coup for Sanders, who failed to win the endorsement of any daily newspaper when he ran for Congress in 1988. The Herald said Republican incumbent Rep. Peter Smith was to a degree a victim of the ineptitude of the administration in handling the budget deficit. It noted Smith had voted for the first budget compromise package, which called for cuts in Medicare and failed in the House. At least Smith has voted to deal with it even though his support for the method of managing it may have been misplaced, the Herald said.

The Herald sought to answer Sanders critics who have charged that an independent socialist would be ineffective in a House controlled by the two major parties. As events have unfolded in recent weeks, an impression has grown that maybe what Washington needs is someone like Sanders a bomb-thrower in the metaphorical sense, or political revolutionary, the paper said. The Caledonian-Record said Sanders talks about national medical insurance and the debacle. Yet, he has never once been able to come up with accurate figures on how any of his proposals could be financed. The St.

Johnsbury paper directed no praise toward Smith, but focused on its criticisms of Sanders. We therefore urge all Northeast Kingdom voters, whatever their reservations about the incumbent, to re-elect Peter Smith to Congress, the paper concluded. The Herald referred to the 1958 election of Democrat William H. Meyer to Congress from a state long dominated by Republicans. Meyer was ahead of his time, the paper said.

He wanted the United States to recognize Red China and had other radical ideas that didnt seem so radical as the years went by. The Herald said that noted Red-baiter, none other than Richard Nixon, (later) adopted Meyers favorite theme and opened the door to Communist China. Meyer lasted only one term in the House but while there he shook things up considerably, the Herald aid Cook pleaded no contt to two charges of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child. That plea was in exchange for the dismissal of three other similar charges. Cook, who was paroled earlier this year, was sentenced last fall to six months in jail and ordered to participate in outpatient sexual offender therapy.

Cook was not named as a defendant in the suits. We think tee camp is ultimately responsible, Kellner said. We feel the focus should be on the YMCA, Blais said. The suits claim the camp exhibited negligence not only for allowing the incidents to occur but also for failing to respond appropriately when the children complained. BURLINGTON (AP) The parents of three boys who were sexually molested at a YMCA camp in 1987 are suing the Greater Burlington YMCA.

The boys were molested at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, a summer camp that is owned and operated by the YMCA. The three separate suits, filed in Chittenden Superior Court, seek unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. Norman Blais, attorney for the parents of two of the boys, said his suits charge YMCA officials with negligence in hiring and supervising Thomas Cook, then a 19-year-old student at the University of Vermont. The suit filed by John Kellner, attorney for tee mother of the teird boy, alleges 'ine cam1 bfeaefied a duty it owed to both the victim and his mother. brattleboro Reformer Black Mountain Road, P.O.

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ALBANS A 1990 campaign flier for Peter Welch hangs on a bulletin board in the Franklin County Democratic campaign headquarters, inches from an aging campaign letter from then-gubernatorial candidate Philip Hoff. Welch is hoping to pull off what he admits would be an upset victory over Republican gubernatorial Richard Snelling an upset he likens to Hoffs victory 18 years ago when the Democrat narrowly ousted GOP Gov. F. Ray Keyser Jr. Weve run a tremendous campaign.

Were on the edge of an upset, Welch said Thursday during a morning campaign stop in St. Albans. All that work you did in the summer begins to pay off in the fall. Welch has gone on the offensive in recent weeks, blasting Snellings record on the environment and fiscal management. And the campaign recently printed 100,000 four-page fliers reading, Dick Snelling has: the old answers, the old boy network, and the same old What does Peter Welch have? New Ideas.

He said his strategy in these final days before the Nov. 6 election is to travel primarily in Chittenden and Franklin counties drumming up support, and keep his advertisements on television to take his campaign message of fair taxation and controlled state spending to the voters. My strategy seems to be working, so Im going to keep with it, Welch said, shaking hands with fanners picking up checks at the St. Albans Co-Operative Creamery, Inc. Interest in the race is picking up dramatically.

People are kind of fed up with the cost of health care, and they are apprehensive here about whats going to happen to the price of milk, he added. And there was concern Thursday at the co-op with the price of milk a price considered satisfactory now, but scheduled to drop in the not-too-distant future. That will be their (farmers) Christmas present, dairy fanner Ray Howrigan told Welch wife an edge of sarcasm in his voice. Howrigan and Michel Guillemette said farmers with plenty of feed on hand will weather the cuts, but those without feed may be forced to sell off part of their herds. We cant afford to buy the feed and the cows, too, Guillemette said.

1 High fuel prices also concern farmers. One woman noted that it costs about $100 to fill up their large tractor with gasoline, and Claudette Rainville, a Welch supporter, said tanks on her farm are locked to prevent gasoline theft. Welch said it is unlikely increases in the gasoline tax would be discussed by the state Legislature next year, given increases planned at the national level. Name recognition was a problem for Welch in the early days of the campaign because he is facing a former governor Snelling served for four terms. But Welch was a familiar face at the co-op Thursday, where he tucked a co-op kitten under one arm and put his other hand out to farmers, saying, Im Peter Welch.

Im running for governor. I know who you are, said farmer J. Maurice Boucher, a self-described conservative Democrat who returned the handshake and promised to support Welch at the polls. Welch said he is counting on a televised gubernatorial debate scheduled for Sunday to boost his campaign, giving him a chance to go head-to-head against Snelling on the statewide television airways. We began this seven months ago and I remember everyone saying what a tough battle this was going to be, Welch told fellow-Democrats gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the county campaign headquarters on Lake Street later Thursday morning.

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