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Vol. 83 No. 46®
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Here's how election added up
Sewlckiey mends zoning language
Yuk-waste is growing monster
People at polls on Election Day
Laughlin Center celebrates 30th
SA ousted in PIAA playoffs
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=LIPPIN’ FLApjaCKSI In preparation for the Sewlckiey Kiwanis Pancake Day, Bob Kluz, left, and Ceola Patillo, right, practice their technique. Kluz is the newly elected president of the Sewlckiey Kiwanis. Patillo is immediate past presi-[ient and chairman of pancake day. On Saturday,' Nov. 15, pancakes will be served all day long, at 8 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Sewickley United Methodist Church, Broad and Thorn streets. Baked goods and Christmas ornaments
also be sold.	(Photo	by Daniel M. Miller)
Walgren trounces Buckman in race for 18th seat
gBy Mike M^~
r‘I was seen as a rich guy trying to buy |the election,”, Sewickley’s Ernie I Buckman opined about his loss on Nov. 4 I to incumbent Congressman Doug iWalgren, “He ran a better campaign, l and capitalized on my vulnerable I points.”
The 46-year-old attorney from Mt. ILebanon scored 104,001 votes to the 161,202 chalked up by Buckman, 60, Ichainnan of Oliver Realty.
I Both men said they were “surprised” |by the outcome — Buckman because he I had hoped to win; Walgren because of I the severity of the defeat.
I Still hammering on the money issue lused against his opponent, Walgren Jsaid, “I was really surprised $700,000 — I (what Buckman allegedly spent on his Icampaign) — did not make the election |any closer.
Walgren added, “The real irony is |that in (the election p£) 1984, the man |who rpi against me — <Jrim Maxwell)
— spent only $6,000 on the campaign and I got 63 percent of the vote. I got the same amount — (63 percent) — With $700,000 being spent It showed money made no impact on the voters.” Buckman also attributed his loss to Walgren forces’ painting hiift as a “wild-eyed conservative,” and “strongly anti-labor” — both untrue, Buckman emphasized. However, he admitted, “We did not do a good job of responding . (to the charges); we did not counterattack eff^tively.”
On the other hand, the Buckman campaign battle plan was not as effective'as. Ernie would have liked it to have been. “We were unable to get across his weakne^es,” he said. Buckman summed up some of those as Walgren’s voting record and his “effectiveness” as a Congressman. Amoi^ other charges,' the Buckman c^paign criticized Walgren for enacting only one bill during his decade-Ioog stint in Congress — a charge Walgren has denied.
Buckman feels such Walgren strengths as being viewed as a “caring Congressman” and success at providing “constituent services” helped surmount any “weaknesses” voters might have entertained.
Although Walgren has been critized for being too liberal for the Republican-majority district he represents,
• Walgren rejects such detractors. “Our district is one of the highest educated in the state.” He sees the'electorate in the 18th Congressional District as “independent” and willing to cross party lines.
Therefore, Walgren contended, “That showed the greatest degree of approval based on judgment and decision” on the part of the voters. “That’s the way it ought to be,” he added. Walgren noted the “across-the-board” vote of confidence of the voters, which, he said,, showed a cross section of society. Walgren said he was especially pleased with his showing in such Republican strongholds as Mt. Lebanon, Upper St.
Clair, and in Buckman’s own Sewickley.
Reflecting on the election, Ernie Buckman said he still is unsure what it would take to unseat an incumbent like Walgren. However, he noted that in this November’s election, there was only one successful Republican challenger in the whole country. He also cited a recent Wall Street Journal article that attested to the might an incumbent wields against a chal- 'nger.
Would he challenge Walgren again in 1988?
“I have no idea,” Buckman responded.' “They say anyone can be beat. Sitting here this morning, I don’t know how to do it.
In the meantime, Walgren said he will use the next two years to push legislation that will revive the Pittsburgh economy by making the city a center for scientific and teclmological industries — something he said he has already put into motion during the last Congress.
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