30 White and Clements keep up name-calling Governor says challenger is 'lap dog bi..“4 our 2- 1986 1986 By Sam Attlesey and G. Robert Hillman Austin Bureau of The News / LIBERTY, Texas — In-7--jit1 .---- paign growing more acrid by the day, Democratic Gov. Mark White on Monday called his Republican challenger, former Gov. oo, Bill j Clements, a "lap dog" for the Reagan administration who "won' \.stand up and fight for Texas." _J rally in Houston, Clements called Whit's charges "outrageous" and accused the governor of "instilling fear" in the elderly, poor and mi- norities of the state through his campaign literature and stump speeches. In an interview during the we* end, Clements described the incum- bent governor as "an entity to iii disposed of." . Although both sides appeared ready to move their media efforts toward more positive themes, the battle on the campaign trail Mon- day continued as a duel of clashing pe sonalities. "It was sa to see a a t.an.v; bad been elected governor wouldn't stand up and fight for his state," White said during a one-day, nine-city tour of southeast Texas. "When the Republican adminis- tration, the national administra- tion, comes down here, (Clements) looks like a lap dog," he said. "First thing he does is jump up in their laps and whimper the whole time. "When he was governor and there was a Republican administra- tion, he couldn't get one thing done for Texas." bite, who was Texas attorney general while Clements was gover- nor between 1979 and 1982, said that Clements was unsuccessful in keep- ing the federal government from appealing a court decision declar- ing the windfall profits tax uncon- stit • II al. "I stood up and fought the wind- fall profits tax in a Democratic ad- ministration," White said. "I filed a lawsuit against it, and we got the federal district court saying it was unconstitutional." sO said he filed a lawsuit requesting the federal government to pay Texas its fair share of disputed offshore oil and gas royal- ties. Because of White's lawsuit, Texas wound up with 27 percent of the royalties from the leases. Clements, White said, failed to get "any settlement ... and he was begging, literally begging them to give hinIlpercent." -1311Ftlements was in a positioi;\ at the time to have stood up and fought for Texas," White said, "but he really was kind of whimperini9 . whining." ouston, Clements said "My opponent is campaigning in a spirit of fear, which I deplore. I think it's a shame and a disgrace that a gover- nor of the state of Texas is cam- paigning on the basis of instilling fear in the elderly and the poor and the minorities." Clements said he was referring to White's stump speeches and cam- paign literature in which he sug- gests that a Clements victory on Nov. 4 would cost thousands of blacks and Hispanics their jobs and would mean a curtailment of social services to the elderly and the poor. "His idea," Clements said, "of playing on the emotions of the poor and the indigent and the elderly and the minorities, I think, is a dis- graceful performance." In an interview Sunday, White said his Republican challenger was engaged in "a grudge match" in his bid to win back the governor's job he lost to White four years ago. "All he's doing is running against Mark White, and he's really vindictive in everything he's done in this campaign and doesn't have a moment's thought about the future of Texas," White said. Clements, rebutting the charge, denied that he was attempting to settle an old score. "There isn't a thing in the world personal about it," Clements said Monday in San Antonio. "I'm doing what's right for the state." In an interview during the week- end, Clements said about his race against White: "He's an entity to be disposed of, that's what this elec- tion is all about." White spent much of Monday stopping in banks, nursing homes and coffee shops in Conroe, Cleve- land, Liberty, Dayton and Silsbee and making an unscheduled stop at an elementary school in Sour Lake, where he fielded questions from in- quiring students and shook hands with as many schoolteachers as he could find. He also met with Democrats in stops at Orange, Port Arthur and Beaumont. Traveling with White all day iMonday was state Treasurer Ann e C-12_,,vot-ii.,9, Although media advertising by the candidates seemed to be soft- ening Monday, the change in tone was slow to reach the candidates themselves who continued to trade barbs on the campaign trail. In response to White's charge that his opponent was nothing more than a "lap dog," Clements replied that those statements were a "disgusting performance by the governor." Richards, who faces no Republican opposition. Ms. Richards repeatedly praised White for his education pro- grains. And, noting the state's fiscal cri- sis, Ms. Richards said, "I don't know anyone who's been governor of Texas and faced tougher times with more courage." Clements spent much of the day in Dallas, engaged in private strat- egy meetings and filming a televi- sion commercial. His only scheduled public ap- pearances were a 15-minute speech before the Texas Association of Broadcasters in San Antonio, fol- lowed by a brief question-and-an- swer session, and an hour allotted for the rally in Houston. In San Antonio, Clements contin- ued to press his plan for economic development, dwelling particularly on his desire for better relations with Mexico. "It is not enough to look at the border as a source of problems. It must also be seen as a source of op- portunity," he said. Specifically. Clements called for a better working relationship be- tween Texas and Mexico, with an eye toward expanding trade by re- ducing the "barriers to the free Movement of goods and services across the border." Also Monday, White's campaign prepared to show a new television commercial taking a somewhat more positive tone. In recent weeks, the Clements campaign has shown commercials accusing White of ly- ing and of freeing dangerous pris- oners, and the White camp has pro- duced spots blaming Clements for despoiling Texas beaches and po- tentially wrecking the state's educa- tional system. • The subject of the new 30-second spot is a series of newspaper edito- rial endorsements. An announcer reads passages praising the gover- nor and concludes: "Clements or White? Go back or move forward." Mark McKinnon, a White cam- paign spokesman, said campaign ad- vertising in the final days "will pri- marily be focusing on what the gov- ernor has accomplished and what he intends to accomplish during the next four years."