Brown and White Vol. 108 No. 15

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper ruuuuv 1894 vol 108 no 15 tuesday october 31 2000 all the lehigh news first gore seeks support in fountain hill by christine metz managing editor online amidst the backdrop of fountain hill's working class rowhouses and a swirl of blue and red confetti vice president al gore delivered a speech friday night promising to fight for middle-class americans to a crowd of several thousand gore's speech at stanley park in the neighboring fountain hill borough spoke of middle class tax cuts medicare and social security protection and public education improvements gore told a crowd scattered with union workers and fountain hill's middle class residents that if elected he would increase the minimum wage protect the right to organize and fight against special interest groups from the beginning of his speech gore promised he would focus on the working people and the middle class i'll work for you fight for you and never let you down gore said citing the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years and a large budget surplus gore said the economic prosperity in the clinton and gore administration would continue under his presidency in a tight race with republican candi date texas gov george w bush gore attacked his opponent's proposal to take 1 million from the social security trust fund and give it to seniors and students b&w photo by christine metz one trillion given to two different people doesn't add up it's fuzzy math gore said gore also spoke out against bush's proposed 1.6 trillion tax cut of which he said almost half would go to the top one percent of america's richest population the platform receiving the most atten tion from gore was prescription drug reform speaking of the proposed patient's bill of rights gore said he wants to make prescription drugs afford able to all seniors i'll give you real prescription drug benefits for all seniors under the drug plan gore said under his plan gore said people would have more priority than the special interest groups such as hmos and insurance com panies gore admonished insurance compa nies that spent large amounts on ads and campaign contributions gore also spoke to the college students in the crowd claiming he would make college tuition tax deductible and give the new incentives to save and invest with the borough's 66 percent democratic registration margin fountain hill was a prime lehigh valley location for gore's visit coming from a candidate rally in pittsburgh gore arrived at the park at 9:30 p.m more than three hours after the crowd began gathering for what the vice president gore espouses his views to a crowd of thousands in fountain hill imploring voters to choose him over opponent gov george w bush bush sr campaigns for son at cedar crest by meredith bartlett former president emphasizes character said gov bush will return integrity to white house assistant lifestyle editor former president george bush deliv ered family anecdotes mixed with serious campaign talk thursday to an enthusias tic crowd at cedar crest college bush was making an appearance at the college to campaign for his son republican presidential candidate gov george w bush complementing his son's job as the governor of texas he said gov bush has been a strong governor because he accomplished all of the goals he said he would while in office gov bush has held his position since 1994 when he defeated popular democratic gov ann richards bush who touched on several differ ent election 2000 issues was careful to emphasize the difference between his son's ideas and those of democratic presidential candidate al gore education was a hot topic for bush especially considering the venue don't have every education deci sion made by a committee in washington bush said put the confi dence in the people he added that gov bush is dedicated to solving the energy crisis and saving social security he praised his son's choice of dick cheney who served in president bush's cabinet as secretary of defense as a vice presidential candidate he said cheney's qualities became obvious during the vice presidential debate dick cheney is a solid citizen he said everyone now sees why our son chose dick cheney in addition bush spoke about his own time in the white house and tied it in to his son's campaign in 1992 when i was defeated i kept saying character matters and character does matter he said he said if his son is elected there will be a return of dignity honor and respect to the white house jeff carlini 01 a lehigh student who attended said he agreed with bush's statement we need george w to restore honor to the oval office carlini said bush said the november 1998 day in which both of his sons were elected gov ernor was the happiest day of his life george w was re-elected as the governor of texas and jeb bush became the gover nor of florida he also praised the political motiva tion of cedar crest and thanked the college for providing a platform to the candidates he said many higher learn ing institutions fear a negative backlash if they get involved with political cam paign so they don't invite candidates several pennsylvania and lehigh valley politicians welcomed the former president lehigh county executive jane baker a cedar crest alumna spoke congressman len gruppo cedar crest president dorothy blaney sen r.ick santorum and michele ridge wife of pennsylvania gov tom ridge also addressed the large mostly gop crowd cedar crest is an all-female school during the final days of his campaign governor bush has focused on the needs of women voters literature explaining the candidate's background of helping women was available gov bush was in pittsburgh during his father's speech campaigning with colin powell and gov ridge see gore page a 6 for more presidential election coverage see special brown and white election 2000 insert pages 81-b4 wimbbhhhbhksmb4»yyiiiiw v llllllllhh11 f fwtmkjjj field hocke v oses final fraternities raise is 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