PRESS CONFERENCE, Friday, May 30, 1980 /off (I) --We have an announcement and letter on the Committee on Aging becoming an independent agency. --Expect a variety of questions about the speaker 's race and your involvement.Dallas Times-Herald probably will remind you that you wrote a Don Loomis of Plano on initiative and Teferenchim, mentioning that John Bryant is backed by labor and probable antagonistic to i &r. The letter to you from the Harris County former GOP Chairman Charles Haden also will come up. Haden is the man who claims Bryant would be better for the GOP than Gib Lewis because of his position on redistricting. G9 --One Prank Bodzin of Dallas is trying to get 100,000 letters urging a special legislative session for Dallas property tax breaks. City Councilman Steve Bartlett wants a constitutional amendment calling for 20 per cent homestead exemption and a 10 per cent ceiling on annual property tax increases for residential homeowners. We haven't started receiving special sesion petitions yet, and I gather you want to discourage them by answering now that there will be no special session because the speaker's race fight would make it an exercise in futility. We have no specifics on Bartlett's proposals. --Somebody is sure to want to know progress on new prison site selection. --George Strake has defied Mark White's opinion that Democrats can't sign John Anderson presidential petitions. Both sides are charging partisan motivation. Strake says h- has authority to interpret the election code and is charged with verifying the petitions. Democrats will probably sue, and Stake will have to ask for outside counsel. Undoubtedly, there will be a question as to whether you agree with Strake's poition. --You are on Reagan's v.p. shopping list. There will be some more questions on this. --There may be follow up questions on the temporary low level nuclear waste disposal issue. At least one site, Nuclear Sources and Services of Houston, has received Health Department authority to increase the amount of waste in storage from 1,000 to 4,000 barrels. Dr. Bernstein says that should temporarily ease the crisis. He suggests some sort of public authority like the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority to handle nuclear waste on a permanent basis. He says the Gulf Coast authority already has showded interest. --Bullock and White seem to playing games again with the Presecutors' Coordinating (!!)Council program to help local district attorneys with tough cases. Bullock has held up payment of a claim and asked the attorney general for an opinion. White, of course, AsHnlikIhYg.0 q°46008Pal Ngh16118ffaotIROliMtPRi8W9rhed to make Bullock pay. TheSupreme Court wouldn 't order Bullock to pay until he actually refuses. This may rock on and on. If the question comes up, I would invite reporters to just "look at the record. The facts are pretty clear.jay.11.2.az.an provide any background desired." leee--You may get questions about your statement in San Antonio that a suit can be expected to challenge the so-called windfall profits tax. --Maxine Cheshire's leg-woman called here twice yesterday, fishing for information on whether you will lease Wexford to Ronald Reagan. I doubt this will come up this morning. But Cheshire will be calling back about it. %/( - V A c_ft riceti pl./4ms
