S PRESS CLIPS Pit Tribune-Herald Waco, Texas L.)0 716 WV Sth ST AUSTIN. TEXAS IST01 4717;5 News-llerald Del Rio, Texas ,job App ointment approved A --I Ann K. Stool of Del Rio was approved Monday by the Sexa e Nominations Committee for a gubernatorial ap- pointment to the Texas Commission on the Arts. Senate consideration is expected later this week. At the time of her appointment last November, she was chairman of the 1985 Texas Arts Awards, a member of the Texas Arts Alliance Board and a member of the Lone Star Committee to Restore the Capitol. Gau--Meriii-White appointed her for a term running to August 1989. Staff photo — Duane Laverty Former Gov. Bill Clements says he will not condone a state tax increase if elected Clements says stand against new taxes hasn't weakened By DREW PARMA Tribune-Herald staff writer ubernatorial candidate Bill Clem: t ents sratd-Monday-that-cantritryinpub- ligiecrreports, he has not softened his stand against new taxes if elected. The Dallas Morning News quoted the Republican candidate in its Mon- day editions as saying that a pledge to veto any tax increase as governor would be "nonsense." However, Clements told reporters at a Temple news conference that the statement was in response to a "highly speculative" question about future btenniurns.---- -'- "It's inconceivable to me that under my administration there would be an kind of shortfall," Clements said. Clements acknowledged-that Gov. John Connally and others within the Republican Party have tried to get him to soften his opposition to tax in- creases. "They're trying to get me to say that I would condone an increase in taxes in the next legislative session, and I won't," Clements said. dorsement of a Gov. Mark White plan for a temporary tax increase to ease the state deficit, Clements said Connal- ly, a Republican, did not realize that state revenues have been on the in- crease. "I think that if he were aware of the entire picture as I have outlin it, he would realize that we have amp revenues." - Clements was kept on the del throughout his news-conference by re- porters eager to learn his stance on events in the deficit-fighting special ed about his Feb. 3 pledge tha ere would be no new taxes "when I m governor," Clements said he made the pledge "under then-existing cir- umstances." -es-have-to• 'em." But, Clements also said he would" Eill likelihood" veto any attempt by th 1987 Legislature to raise taxes to cover current budgetary shortfall. --'We do not need an increased tax to cover the existing shortfall in this fis- When asked about Connally's en- cal biennium," Clements said. That will complicate the sk of legislators in special session in Austin. ' The House leadership has taken the position that a tax to right a $2 billion to $3 billion shortfall in state income should be done in the regular session, when its effects on the state can be fully weighed. The leadership of the Texas Senate is working toward a tax increase in the special session to resolve the problem. But Clements would not say whether he would work for the repeal of such a package if he were governor. By contrast, Clements insisted that any legislative session called under his governorship would only "scrub the budget" to resolve gaps between proj- ected spending and income. "What we've been doing is spending money like wild Indians in Austin," Clements said. "The income of the state of Texas is constantly going up. What we need to do is live within our I cans and stop all this newspaper talk bout shortfalls."
