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Fall 1986   [union bug]   Paid for by Cranston for Senate '86

Cranston Puts Muscle Into Toxic Waste Clean-up
 
     The federal govern­ment's toxic waste clean-up program got a shot in the arm this summer  after House and Senate conferees agreed to extend the Su­perfund law, marking a major step forward in what Senator Alan Cranston (D.-Calif.) called "one of the most important tasks facing Congress in 1986."
     The new law would commit $8.5 billion over the next five years.
     The original $1.6 billion Super­fund law, co-sponsored by Cranston, had expired last Septem­ber 30. Cranston, in the first week of the 1985-86 session of Congress, co-sponsored the legislation to reauthorize and extend the cleanup program.
     The Environmental Protection Agency, under the Superfund ex­tension, will start work on at least 375 dump sites. There are now 703 dumps on the agency's National Priorities List, which consists of the nation's most dangerous dumps, and agency officials have predicted the list will grow to 2,500 in the next several years.
     Financing the program remains the only major issue still un­resolved.
     "Regardless of the source of the funds, we must continue the work we've begun. It's no exag­geration to say that our lives de­pend on it," Cranston said.
     Throughout his 18 years in the U.S. Senate, Cranston has been at the forefront of efforts to protect the environment against toxic pol­lution. In 1972, 1977 and again in 1986, he supported the Clean Water Act and its reauthorization. And he is a strong supporter of Califor­nia's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement initiative on the November ballot.
     "Californians have a right to turn on their kitchen taps with con­fidence that they and their chil­dren will not be poisoned if they drink the water," said Cranston, who recently appealed to Republican opponent Ed Zschau to join his efforts to clean up and protect California's environment.
      "Except for the air we breathe, nothing is more important to life than safe drinking water," Cranston continued. "It is essen­tial to survival.
"It is vital for human health – the health of our children and grandchildren and, indeed, the present and future health of our so­ciety.
     "America has no future without clean water," Cranston added.
     Cranston's appeal to Zschau surprised few who are versed in the congressman's voting record on environmental issues.
     Zschau has regularly opposed efforts to strengthen the Super­fund. Among the proposals he has opposed was one requiring toxic polluters to report any significant emissions of hazardous and cancer-causing chemicals from their plants.
     Zschau voted against amend­ments to allow those injured by the release of toxic wastes to sue in federal courts. And in 1984, he op­posed the establishment of a fund to compensate hazardous waste victims.
     In 1985, Zschau voted against final passage of the Clean Water Act.
     The League of Conservation Voters recently reported that on 11 key votes over the last three years, Zschau has voted against pollution control 82 percent of the time.
     Cranston believes bipartisan spirit is the only way to protect the environment.
     "Because of foot dragging on the part of the current Administra­tion and the lead time it takes for long-term as opposed to emergen­cy cleanup, work has been com­pleted at only six of the 888 sites designated as top priorities by the EPA. Of the 60 current or proposed California. sites on the list, not a single one has been cleaned up yet."  
 

U.S. Senator Alan Cranston at a recent press conference blasts "foot dragging" by the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.

Senator Gets Top Ratings By Seniors
 
     WASHINGTON - The influen­tial National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC) gave a perfect rating this year to Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), a longtime supporter of older Americans.
     In its annual survey of Con­gressional support for senior citizen concerns, the Washington-­based NCSC reported that Cranston supported elderly Ameri­cans on each of 10 key 1985 votes. Cranston was one of only 12 sena­tors with a perfect 1985 rating.
     By contrast, Ed Zschau scored extremely low in the NCSC report during the same four years in public office. According to the NCSC, Zschau supported the interests of elderly Americans only 10 percent of the time in 1983, 30 percent in 1984, and 10 percent in 1985. They also noted that Zschau's ratings are far below the House average of 79 percent.
     Since 1973, when the NCSC began compiling ratings, Cranston has posted a near-perfect 95 per­cent rating.
     During the past four years, Cranston co-sponsored resolutions to protect Social Security cost of living adjustments and to assure prompt payment of medicare claims, while opposing the closing of Social Security field offices.
     He also introduced bills to provide employment opportunities for older Americans, to improve Social Security benefits for women and to protect Social Security from deficit reduction raids.
     In addition, Cranston co-spon­sored many bills to improve Medi­care and provide better protection and services to disabled Social Se­curity recipients. In 1985, Cranston co-authored legislation establish­ing a new research institute for arthritis.


Is He For It, Or Is He Against It—­Even Zschau Doesn't Know For Sure
Voter efforts to pinpoint the po­litical positions of Ed Zschau con­tinue, but the Republican Senate candidate has shed little light on where he specifically stands on the major issues. These are a few of Zschau's major flip flops drawn from a review of his voting record and public statements.

NUCLEAR TEST BAN
HE'S FOR IT: In 1985, Zschau co­sponsored a resolution calling for the resumption of negotiations for a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing.
HE'S AGAINST IT: In 1986, Zschau voted against his own reso­lution.

CHILD NUTRITION
HE'S FOR IT: Zschau co-sponsor­ed a resolution for "the federal government to help meet the nutri­tion needs of low-income Americans."
HE'S AGAINST IT: Zschau voted against the Child Nutrition Bill of 1983; voted to cut spending levels in the Child Nutrition Bill of 1984; and voted against the Child Nutri­tion Bill of 1985.
 
MX MISSILE
HE'S FOR IT: In 1983, Zschau voted twice in favor of producing the MX missile.
HE'S AGAINST IT: In 1984 and 1985, Zschau voted four times against producing the MX missile.

WEAPONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA
HE'S FOR IT: Zschau voted in May to send a $354 million package of missiles to Saudi Arabia.
HE'S AGAINST IT: Zschau recently told leading supporters of Israel in California that if the Saudi arms sale came up today, he would vote against it.

AID TO THE CONTRAS
HE'S FOR IT: In 1986, Zschau voted twice to send $100 million for weapons and equipment to the rebel Contras in Nicaragua.
HE'S AGAINST IT: In 1985, Zschau co-sponsored and voted for a resolution to use diplomatic, not military, efforts in Nicaragua. He wrote his California constituents, "I want to assure you I continue to oppose all military aid to the Contras. I've consistently voted against it since I first came to Con­gress and I intend to keep doing so."

PRODUCTION OF POISON NERVE GAS
HE'S FOR IT: In 1983 and 1985, Zschau voted to resume producton of poison nerve gas.
HE'S AGAINST IT: In 1983 and 1984, Zschau voted to oppose production of poison nerve gas. And in 1985, Zschau co-sponsored a resolution barring its production.

CUTTING WASTE IN DEFENSE SPENDING
HE'S FOR IT: Zschau says he has "supported worthwhile and cost­-efficient defense projects, while working to eliminate weapons that are too costly, unneeded or ineffec­tive."
HE'S AGAINST IT: Zschau voted aginst amendments to open de­fense contracts to competitive bids.
 
INDEX ...
"I hadn't been politically active since John F. Kennedy's campaign
p.4  Lloyd Bridges

Cranston makes child care crisis a priority issue.   p.3

Mr. Triple Jump coordinates special events and Cranston volunteers
p.4  Willie Banks


Visions For The Future Of California
By U.S. Senator
Alan Cranston

     Somebody asked me the other day how it felt, after 18 years in the U.S. Senate, to be running for office again. I replied, "I like run­ning – and I don't intend to stop now. I like winning – and I don't intend to stop winning."

     I am motivated by a cause, by a dedication to a set of deep and enduring convictions, and by a hopeful vision of change and of the future.

     At the heart of this is the in­spiration of all Californians. We have always been at the frontiers of innovation and daring, of ideas and idealism.

    Across the generations, a spe­cial bond connects the pioneers of the gold rush with the new pioneers of the Silicon Valley. Across the centuries, a spirit of commitment reaches from the Friars who walked the Camino Real long ago to the students at UCLA and Berkeley and all our campuses who stood up in protest against the war in Vietnam in the sixties, and who speak out against South African apartheid today.

     When I first went to the Senate in 1969, the anti-war movement had swept from the campuses of California across the entire nation. One of the most important achievements of my life – one of which I am most proud – is that my voice and our vote in the Senate helped bring a halt to the terrible and tragic war.

     Today the struggle is different – the arena has changed – but the stakes are very much the same. In 1986, we have to stand up and speak out against the new and needless wars in Central America.

     And I am proud that the na­tional protest against the moral evils of apartheid in South Africa began right here in our state, this golden state which is so often ahead of its time.

     As a California Senator, I have led the effort to impose real and meaningful sanctions on the South African regime. And that struggle in the Senate has brought me into conflict with some who still call themselves the moral majority.

     I believe now, and I shall always believe, that no single, nar­row view has a monopoly on truth – that we are all God's children – and that no one has the right to claim the inside track.

     I do not believe, for example, that there is moral sanction for the MX missile – or for military overspending or overkill. The peo­ple of California understand that waste in spending for defense ul­timately weakens the defense of the nation. They know that $8,000 coffee makers won't defend one American and they know that $600 toilet seats won't deter one act of aggression.

     I took a position against ex­cessive increases in the Pentagon budget four years ago when it wasn't very popular. Why? Be­cause a California Senator must take the lead and must take a stand for the values that are critical to our national security – a determination to keep America strong, and an equal determination to end the arms race before it ends the human race.

     As a California Senator, I have always been – I will always be – in the front rank of the endeavor to prevent humanity's third and last world war. For me, this issue has the highest priority. There are many other issues that matter, but nothing else will matter if we blow ourselves up.

     What we need – what the world desperately needs – is a real summit agreement.

     Beyond this, the most vital challenge before us is to keep California economically the first state in America – and to keep America the first economy in the world.

I have sought to restrain overall government spending – and I have fought for budgets with deficits far below those of the Reagan admin­istration.

     But I have resisted – and I will continue to resist – mindless slashes in vital domestic programs. We cannot compete in the years ahead if our children are not truly literate. And we cannot and must not fight a budget deficit by taking food from the hungry and health care from the sick.

     Finally, in all we do, we must assure that we do not risk the greatest of all our assets – the natural beauty and natural re­sources of California.

     We can meet our problems and master our opportunities – but only if we are pragmatic and not ideological. Our task is to find real answers – and the real test isn't whether the answers are right or left, but whether they are right or wrong.

     The challenge for a California Senator is to be an agent of progress, a force for fresh ideas and new approaches. In California, we do not shrink from the future – we welcome it.

     So, I'm not running for re-election simply on my record. For me the issue is not what we've achieved in the past, but what we can achieve together in the next six years. And I look forward with a feeling of hope and optimism.

     As your Senator, as California's Senator, I will continue to focus on the future – on the California and country we can create – not just on things as they are, but on things as they can be.
 

The Voters Speak Out

Vet's For Cranston
 
Dear Senator Cranston,
 
     Our family voted for you in the Primary – Dad, a 93-year-old vet­eran who lost a lung in the First World War; my husband, who had three ships blown out from under him in the second war; our son, Van, who was a Marine in Viet­nam. When he came home, there were no parades. No one cared. But you cared, even when it wasn't popular.
     And Senator Cranston, your work for vets has made a real dif­ference for our whole family.
     God bless you.

KATHY MCNEELY
Colton
 
"The Greatest Enemy - Drugs''
 
Dear Senator Cranston,
 
     I was distressed this week to hear Ed Zschau accuse you of "sit­ting on the sidelines" in the war against drug abuse.

     I have been a loyal Cranston supporter since the sixties when, as a mother of two teenagers, I supported your position against the war in Vietnam.

     Today, I have grandchildren and new concerns. A day doesn't go by without reports of drug busts and overdoses. We learn the tragic stories of our celebrities, while we mourn for the rest of the community.

     I know you have championed toxic clean up programs, sanctions against South Africa, civil rights for gays and many other important causes. But please tell me that Ed Zschau is misinformed and that you do have a plan of attack against the greatest enemy of the 80s – drugs.

HELEN WELLER
Beverly Hills

Dear Helen,

My opponent is very misin­formed. I presently serve on the bi-partisan Southwest Border Drug Enforcement Task Force and the Senate Democratic Task Force Against Drugs. A year ago, I introduced legislation to com­bat designer drugs, a particular threat to California. On Au­gust 5, I, along with other Democratic Senators, in­troduced the "Emergency Crack Control Act of 1986" to double prison terms and fines against pushers, and the "Na­tional Narcotics Act of 1986" to expand anti-drug education in schools. Mr. Zschau, I might add, has not introduced a sin­gle piece of anti-drug legisla­tion. – Alan Cranston

"Marathon Man"

Dear Senator Cranston,

     It was great to meet your son Kim on his recent trip to Susan­ville. We were disappointed that a Saturday session of the Senate kept you in Washington that day, but we appreciate the fact that you intended to spend time with us. Kim did an excellent job of filling in for you.

     As the retired president of a junior college, I am most enthusiastic about your commit­ment to education.

     I had read over the years about your athletic activities as a sprinter, but after hearing Kim discuss how clearly you have iden­tified so many of our country's problems – and solutions, I will always think of you more as a "marathoner." My vote is again with you this November 4.

ROBERT THEILER
Susanville
 

 
COMMUNITY ACTION

Child Care: Anatomy Of A Grassroots Campaign
    
     It all started a few years ago when Sen. Alan Cranston chaired the Senate Subcommittee on Child Development. He asked a child center administrator what hap­pened to the families who were on the waiting list for services.
    Sadly, the official told the Sena­tor the story of seven children who had been sent to live with relatives in other states so their parents could work, and she spoke of 37 more parents who stayed at home, living on welfare or unemployment insurance, because there was no one to care for their children if they took jobs.
     Armed with the shocking facts and figures, Cranston has initiated a national movement, starting here in California. His plan, to many observers, is a study in the anatomy of a grassroots effort.
     Cranston, who has brought  the  issues of tax reform, crime, sen­iors and the environment straight to the people through his non-parti­san community action meetings and forums, has now added the child care crisis to his statewide agenda.
     "I intend to go up and down this state calling on citizens to make child care a priority issue. We know that parents can mobilize to bring about profound changes in public policy. Mothers Against Drunk Driving is one example," Cranston said.
     On May 28, he held the first Child Care Action Meeting in Hayward, and the response was overwhelming. By the end of July, Child Care Action Meetings had been held in the San Fernando Val­ley, Santa Rosa, San Diego and Fresno.
     Action meetings were sched­uled for late August and early Sep­tember in Pomona, Stockton, Irvine, Cupertino, Riverside, and Oxnard.
     In California, roughly half of all mothers of pre-school children are now working. Of the million and a half California children who are in need of child care during the day, there are facilities for only 600,000, or less than half.
     Although each of the action meetings is a little different, the Senator focuses on issues such as child care quality, safety, training, monitoring, resources and alter­natives.
     Besides legislative avenues, he explains the need for local busi­nesses and community organiza­tions to share some of the costs of child care services.
     "San Francisco has already pioneered a business-government­ community partnership to expand child care and the pay-off will be stronger families, more stable neighborhoods and a better en­vironment for business growth.
     "Some people in Washington think the American family is 'dis­integrating.' Our families are not disintegrating – they're changing. There is no one typical family – and I doubt there ever was.
     "Our families come in all dif­ferent shapes and sizes, colors and background, often growing, some­times shrinking – but always adapting.
     "Now hundreds of thousands of families are being held back, and in some cases, torn apart, by the lack of child care services. It's time to end the crisis," Cranston says.

Locations of Community Forums and Action Meetings held by U.S. Senator Alan Cranston in 1985 and 1986

It's on the Record
Cranston Gets High Marks In Education

     Throughout his 18 years in the U.S. Senate, Alan Cranston's vot­ing record reveals his relentless battle to improve the quality of public elementary and secondary education as well as access to higher education. He's not only championed the cause, he's actual­ly authored and sponsored many of the laws.
     Ironically, opponent Ed Zschau, a former university faculty mem­ber, has a voting record that's been blasted by many, including the National Education Associa­tion, as anti-education:
     Surprisingly, Zschau, a math and science major in college, even voted against the Emergency Mathematics and Science Educa­tion Act, an act opposed by only 54 House members. Of California's 45 Representatives, only ten voted against the act.
    Zschau also was one of only 39 House members to oppose final passage of the Library Services and Construction Act.
     But most damaging, according to political observers, was his op­position to the reauthorization of 11 major federal elementary and secondary education programs in­cluding the Women's Educational Equity Act and the Asbestos School Detection Hazard Act.
Sen. Cranston has:
* co-authored a law to ensure quality math and science pro­grams and to encourage students to teach in those fields.
* authored numerous measures to provide special assistance in areas such as consumer and en­vironmental education.
* co-sponsored the Emergency School Assistance Act.
* co-authored extensions and revisions of federal bilingual education programs.
* co-sponsored programs for gifted and talented children.
* authored the federal statute providing funds for teacher cen­ters.
* co-authored the expansion of adult education programs and li­brary services and construction.
* fought to preserve the Guar­anteed Student Loan program.
* fought against changes in student assistance programs that would have denied federal as­sistance to a million or more grad­uate and professional students.­
* championed expansion of the College Work-Study Program so that more students can be employ­ed while going to school.



Cranston Fights For Individual Liberty

Throughout his 18 years in the U.S. Senate, Alan Cranston (D.-Calif.) has been a staunch supporter of the rights of all Americans. Here is a capsule summary of his positions on current key issues:

• Senator Cranston supports freedom of choice in matters regarding reproductive rights. He has consistently supported the right of individual choice, opposed government interference with the exercise of that right, opposed efforts to overturn the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, and opposed efforts to impose restrictions on Medicaid funding of abortion services for poor women (the Hyde Amendment restrictions).

• Senator Cranston strongly supports pay equity/comparable worth efforts aimed at helping to identify and eliminate the portion of the wage gap between male and female workers attributable to wage-setting practices that devalue the worth of work performed predominantly by female workers.
  

• Senator Cranston introduced in the present Congress a bill, S. 196, to strike from the Immigration and Nationality Act provisions-that the INS has used to deny entry into the United States by aliens suspected of homosexuality. (The bill is pending.)
  

• He is an original co-sponsor of S. 1432, "the national gay rights bill," to prohibit discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation.

• Senator Cranston is urging Attorney General Ed Meese to authorize an FBI investigation into a series of unsolved murders of gay men in the Stockton area over the past few years.

• Senator Cranston has been a leader in the Senate in efforts to combat AIDS. He has authored numerous measures which have resulted in substantial increases for needed research, public education, risk reduction, and related public health activities regarding AIDS. And currently, Cranston is leading the efforts against Prop. 64, the anti-gay LaRouche initiative. Cranston authored a ballot argument opposing the initiative.
  

INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITY
To date, over 10,000 Califor­nians have signed up to partic­ipate in the Cranston Voter Identification Phone Tree. If you want to make 25 toll-free phone calls from your home to help Senator Cranston, please fill out the coupon on Page 4 and send it in immediately.


Off The (Campaign) Cuff
Hollywood's Hottest Want Senator To Steal The Scene

     Barbra Streisand, who hasn't stretched her vocal cords in public for six years, decided to belt out some September ballads – to boost the November ballots of five Democratic senatorial candidates including our favorite, Alan Cranston. With Robin Williams opening the program, Streisand headlined a private fundraiser, sponsored by the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, at her Malibu ranch Sept. 6. The super superstar revealed, "I could never imagine myself wanting to sing in public again, but then I could never imagine Star Wars, Contras, apartheid and nuclear winter in my life and yet they are in everybody's life. I feel I must sing again to raise money so that we send people to Washington who will solve problems, not create them." Amen.

     Meanwhile, look what happened when Ally Sheedy hosted a recep­tion for her favorite Senator AC at agent Judy Schoen's homestead. Judd Nelson dropped in and then joined AC at his next press con­ference on toxics. Judd, your stubble looked great ...

     Shelley Duvall's doing quite a stump herself. Off the (campaign) Cuff spotted her, along with Ed Begley, Jr. and Robert Walden at Marvin Davis' party for AC on July 25. Our spies also counted her in for the August 19 AC bash at Scratch where the who's who also included Meg Ryan of the summer smash "Top Gun," Elliot Gould, Peter Reckell and Ally, of course.

     Watch this column for a final countdown for AC's October 21 bash with sponsors and guests ineluding Leonard Nimoy, Anjelica Huston, Warren Beatty, Gene Barry, Don Henley, Lloyd Bridges, Ed Begley, Jr., Ally Sheedy, Robert Walden, Shelley Duvall, whew, have we left anyone out?

     From the Big Apple, we hear Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Jean Stapleton and Griffin Dunne are on for an AC dinner and reception on September 22 ... Jane Curtain and Mariel Hemingway are ditto for the next night ...

     Also lending their names to the AC campaign, Kenny Loggins, Jamie Lee Curtis AND Christopher Guest, Chevy Chase, Ed Asner, Anne Jackson, Alexandra Paul, Nancy Lenenhan, Martin Sheen and Jean Stapleton. Is there anyone else left? They'll all be on board by November ...

     Anyway, what California Re­publican Senate candidate recently spent an afternoon dodging the question of whether he voted for AC in past elections? The answer to the riddle is soooo EZ ... Thank goodness for secret ballots, huh?

Celebrities Join Cranston On Fast Track

Bridges Tapes Commercials

     Television and film star Lloyd Bridges has a new credit to add to his list of great professional ac­complishments. He's recorded the narration for a number of Senator Alan Cranston's campaign com­mercials.
     "I met the Senator in a restau­rant a few months ago and I just had to let him know how impressed with his record I was. I hadn't been very politically active since John F. Kennedy's campaign, but there I was, offering to help in any way I could," Bridges said.
     "I was originally drawn to his campaign because of his record on protecting the environment and ending the nuclear arms race. But there's so much more.
     "Unlike other politicians, his only special interest is the peo­ple."
     Bridges knows California poli­tics well. He was born in San Lean­dro, California, and spent his child­hood in the northern part of the state. Later, he attended UCLA where he graduated as a political science major.
     For decades, Bridges has been one of the busiest actors in tele­vision. From live TV drama on the "Alcoa Hour" and "Playhouse 90", to the "Philco Hour" and more, he was always recognized as an important performer.
     With his role as Mike Nelson on "Sea Hunt" he became a bonafide star. Other series which followed included: "The Loyd Bridges Show", "The Loner", "Joe Forrester" and "Paper Dolls".

   Bridges also, starred in many television miniseries including "Roots", "Moviola", "The Blue and the Gray", "East of Eden" and "George Washington."

     Television movies include "The People Next Door," "Silent Night, Lonely Night", "The Great Wallendas", and his latest project, "The Thanksgiving Promise", a Sunday night Disney movie for this fall.
    
     "The Thanksgiving Promise" is directed by Bridges' son, Beau. Bridges' 12-year-old grandson stars in the movie, with Beau play­ing his father. Bridges and his wife, Dorothy, play the neighbors, with their two other children, Jeff and Lucinda, in cameo roles.

     "It's been a busy year, but I'm glad to contribute my time to the campaign. This is an important elect.ion and I want to send a message that the people are for Cranston and the people's voice will prevail," he added.

Banks Leaps Into Action

     Willie Banks, current holder of the world record in the triple jump, has "jumped into politics" as coordinator of special events and volunteer activities for Sen. Alan Cranston's re-election cam­paign.

     According to campaign politi­cal director Jim Wisley, "Willie is a born leader who naturally takes to politics. His energy and enthusiasm are contagious and he's a great public speaker.

     Banks, 30, set the world triple jump record on June 16, 1985, with a leap of 58 feet, 11 ½ inches, top­ping the previous world record of 58 feet, 8 ½ inches set by Brazil's Joao de Oliveira in 1975.

     He is the first American to hold the triple jump record since 1911.

     The world record marked a vic­tory comeback for the California track star after his disappointment at the 1984 Olympics. Beset by in­juries, Banks finished in sixth place, although he had been favor­ed to take the gold medal.

     He recalled, '' After the finals of the triple jump, I checked into an out-of-the-way hotel, took the tele­phone off the hook and just cried my eyes out for about an hour.

     "Finally, I asked myself why I was crying. Was it because I had lost? No, it was because· I no longer had a goal in my life. I was lost.

     "But I was alive and healthy. I had a brain. I would become an at­torney. But I needed other goals – and not a far-off 1988 Olympics. I decided my next goal would be the world record. My tears dried up. I even got a little grin. I was alive again," Banks said.

     Banks won that world record, and acknowledged today as "Mr. Triple Jump", he is parlaying his instant name recognition into po­litical action. A graduate of the UCLA School of Law, he has al­ready establshed a solid reputation as a leader in the Athletics Con­gress, the official governing body of track and field, and as a repre­sentative of the U.S. Olympic Committee's House of Delegates.

     Also tagged the "Bouncing Bar­rister'' by Sports Illustrated Maga­zine, Banks continues rigorous ath­letic training under Coach Chuck Debus, while working to reelect Sen. Cranston, a fellow track ath­lete.


What You Can Do. . .
 
     So you're all for Senator Alan Cranston, but you're not exactly sure how to show your support? Have a party!
     That's the advice of Priscilla Burton, fundraising coordinator who's organizing a massive demonstration on September 17 – house parties all over the state which will harness the Senator's massive grassroots support.
     "For all those who ask, 'What can I do,' this is it. This is a great way for everyone from border to border, from east to west, to get involved in the campaign in a meaningful – and fun – way.
     "We'll be contacting hosts and they'll be contacting us. Once someone says, 'yes,' we'll provide them with an official houseparty kit,'' Burton said.
     The kit includes campaign information, invitations, sug­gested contributions, and a spe­cial taped message from the Senator on video cassette which the host can keep.
     The kind of party is up to the host. "It can be simple or elaborate, a sit down dinner, or beer and pretzels or a dessert party. We just want it to be lots and lots of fun," Burton said.
     Still, the parties will have a serious message.
     "It's important to realize how vital each individual com­mitment is if we are going to win in November. We ask that people please not dodge their responsibility by thinking 'We already gave in the primary.'
     Ed Zschau has proclaimed he will spend $12 million to de­feat Senator Cranston in No­vember. We need commitments more than ever for the general election. It's a sad fact that every week television advertis­ing for a statewide campaign in California costs at least $300,000.
     "We are suggesting each house party raise $500. That can mean 20 friends contribuing $25 each, or 50 friends contributing $10 each. We're thinking of this as a real 'Zschau-stopper!' " Burton added.
     Those interested in hosting a house party, contact: in Los An­geles -213/852-0727; Fresno - 209/441-1986; San Diego - 619/531-0822; San Francisco - 415/863-3380.
 
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ED ZSCHAU  vs. ALAN CRANSTON
 
Compare the Record!

     When it comes to California's older Americans, U.S. Senator Alan Cranston is the senior citizen's best friend. Indeed, his overall approval ratings with major national senior citizens organizations are virtually perfect.

     In the past four years alone, Cranston has authored, introduced, or co-sponsored laws and resolutions to:

*  protect Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments;
*  improve Medicare and assure prompt payment of Medicare claims;
*  provide employment opportunities for older Americans;
*  improve Social Security benefits for women;
*  protect Social Security from deficit reduction raids;
*  oppose the closing of Social Security field offices;
*  provide better protection and services to disabled Social Security recipients;
*  establish a new research institute on arthritis.

Republican Ed Zschau, by contrast, is no friend of older Americans. In his four years in Congress, Zschau has never authored a bill relating to the needs of older Americans and has voted repeatedly to cut programs aimed at helping the elderly. Indeed, according to influential senior citizens organizations, Zschau rarely supports the interests of elderly Americans.

     In the last four years, Zschau has voted to:

• cut funding for Meals on Wheels, while 9,083 elderly people in California are currently on the waiting list for the program;
• subject the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program to reductions contained in the Gramm-Rudman Act;
• oppose $102 million for older American volunteer programs;
• oppose low-income energy assistance and weatherization legislation to assist senior citizens;
• kill several provisions in the 1985 Reconciliation Bill that protected seniors' health care.

THE CHOICE IS CLEAR: SENATOR ALAN CRANSTON, A TRUE FRIEND OF CALIFORNIA'S SENIOR CITIZENS VERSUS NO FRIEND AT ALL.

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