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JUly 21, 1994
Grosse Pointe News
News
Kelly confident as he makes bid for u.s. Senate nomination
By DavJd Howard
Special Writer
After 16 years in the MichIgan
Legislature, John Kelly IS
ready for a change
Rather than go down In hIstory
as a man who couldn't leg.
Islate hIs ''Yay out of a state
capitol, state Sen Kelly IS mak.
mg hIS thIrd run for WBshmgton,
D C. - this tIme for the
US Senate.
Kelly, 44, threw hIs hat mto
the rmg in two congressIOnal
races, m 1980 and 1992, but
he's especIally enthusIastIc
about his chances thIS year
WIth SIX major party candl.
dates, Kelly said the WInner
WIll only have had to appeal to
a small plurahty of voters.
"ThIs IS hterally a race
Whel'e virtually everyone
counts," he said
And he's convmced there's no
better candIdate than himself.
"I'm waglng a grass roots
CampaIgn, I haven't left any
k;:>k undone, and m terms of
mternatlOnaI trade, foreign relatIOns,
mIlitary policy, and
domestic priOrIties, and 16
years of dealing Wlth these
human social service and educational
problems, there Isn't
anybody else that's qualified "
But his campaign doesn't
have the financial whereWIthal
to allow hIm to rest on his laurels.
"If you don't have money,
you'd bettel make sure you hIt
every little meetIng," he saId
"I went to Tecumseh for 12
people."
This is a crucial year for the
Democrats in Congress. There
are 34 U.S. Senate seats up for
grabs, 21 of them Democratic.
"In an off-year election you
can expect to lose two or three
of those seats, Kelly said.
If a Democrat doesn't win
thIS seat and the Republicans
do take the majority, what
you're guaranteeing of the Republicans
is that they will be
nothing but obstructionist."
Especially on tile warpath,
according to Kelly, are Rep.
Newt Gingnch of Georgla and
Sen Robert Dole of Kansas
"Pingrich and Dole have decided
that what they're going
to do is try to block everything
In the next year-and-8-half and
use that as a basIS for Clinton's
defeat m 1996," Kelly said.
"So those are the two choices
- either someone in the Democratic
party who IS a voice of
reason to the administration
who starts telling them what's
going on out here in America,
0t someone who by design for
the next two years must do
nothIng but obstruct and stop
Which is great for their career
but not very good for the countIY."
.Kelly, married for 22 years
WIth two daughters, said he'd
fOCus his energIes as a junior
senator on cutting defense
spending, a bureaucracy he
f~els has long been "overbuilt
and oversubsidized."
;"The Cold War's over. For 50
years we spent tnllions of dolhirs
on weapons systems. we've
built Stealth bombers that can
escape radar systems that don't
exist. And the president had
buckled on continuation of the
TrIdent submarine program for
another two years, to assuage
the people of Groton, Conn,
(where the submarme IS made)
when we've got absolute supremacy
of the seas There's no
one to challenge that and
there's no need for that submarine,"
he said
"And the same thing's true
in other advanced weapons systems.
We're stIll committmg
hundreds of bllhons of dollars
In federal outlays for a com
mumty that is overbUIlt, has
been oversubsldlZed and needs
to be rapidly and severely
downsIZed. If they want to keep
the workers In ConnectIcut
work 109 on shIps let's rebuild
our merchant marme fleet
That's something that's been
viable and commercial and
(can) get AmerIcans into world
trade."
He supports, in general, Presldent
Chnton's subSIdy system
But he saId he also supports
the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade (GA'IT), III Vdlious
stages of negotIatIOn smce
the end of World War IT, which
narrowly defines goods and
places them m various catego
nes for purposes of universal
recogmtIOn and eliminates
trade and mvestment barrIers
worldwide.
Kelly saId the natIOn's resources
should stop being allocated
to those who don't need
them.
"We cannot subsJ(me our
farming communIty," he said
"When you look at the agricultural
sector and how it's defined,
they're going to have to
do away with price supports,
and they're going to have to do
away with a lot of the Indirect
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State Sen. John Kelly is running for U.S, Senate.
SubSIdies the federal government's
been glvmg them,"
Kelly SaId
He CIted as a major polItICal
problem French farmers' dependence
on government support
at a tIme when other European
countrIes had phased out the
practlce
"They're phased out over a
couple of years and they're
done. And that's the way it
should be anyway. American
agricultural productiVIty's so
hIgh, and remams high, and
there's a world market for it
and we will be a primary benefiCIary
under GATT. So the
subSidies they're going to get
are gomg to come from the
marketplace rather than the
taxpayer," Kelly said
lIe wants to "bnng some
common sense back to the
Democratic party and elimmate
all thIS corporate welfare."
Kelly saId the United States
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lags behmd other natIOns, such
as Germany and Japan, in export
development. Not only are
these countrIes bestmg the
Untted States m the amount of
theIr gross national product
(GNP) they export, they know
better how to target those exports
"What we should be doing is
ldentIfymg successful small and
medIUm businesses, because
those are the principal Job creators,
and through a cooperatIve
federal and state program, say
'who are the people who are
successes m the marketplace?'''
he said
"Let's find out who needs to
get mto the stream of commerce,
whether they're making
broom handles or automotive
parts, and proVIde them Wlth
the encouragement and provide
them WIth the services to get
our products out mto thIS world
of free trade that we've ere.
ated"
"You don't need to do It for
3M; they've got offices world
wIde"
He saId most smaller busl
ness owners may not know that
there are markets for theIr
goods and servIceS all over the
world.
IdentIfymg and gettmg products
to these markets, he saId,
would aceomphsh two thmgs
prOVIde stable, long-term employment
and bnng down the
per-umt costs of the goods they
sell domestICally
Kelly would also review the
SOCIal SecurIty proviSIOns
whIch allow the federal government
to extncate Itself from
any responsIbIlity for dIsabled
mdlvlduals and others who've
tradItionally been consIdered
unable to contnbute to society.
He saId It's unacceptable
that money IS arbItrarIly and
indifferently dIsbursed to such
people, with no attentIOn paId'
to theIr unique and valuable
aptitudes
"It doesn't mean that we
can't do Subsllbzmg m terms of
Income; It doesn't mean that
we can't help In proVldmg education
or remedial servIceS. But
everybody has a place at the
table," Kelly said.
"Vv"nen you look at people
with handicaps. regardless of
whether they're emotional
handicaps or physical handicaps,
those individuals want to
be an active part of SOCIety.
And we should not cash people
9A
out and say we no longer have
a responslblltty for you"
"I'd totally revIew that. And
the review would not be a Ronald
Reagan-style review. All he
dId was cut the checks off and
say you're on your own "
Kelly WIll face fellow Democrats
Carl Marlinga, Bob Carr,
Joel Ferguson, Lana Pollack
and Wilham Brodhead in the
Aug 2 prImary, a field from
whIch he saId he dlstmguishes
hImself by beIng an mdependent
Democrat.
"Very mdependent Democrat
Always have been, always
wIll be," he said
"I've never let the dommant
mterests III the DemocratIc
party dIctate my course of actIOn
I'm not gomg to roll over
because the preSIdent of the
Umted States calls And I'm
certaInly not gomg to flInch because
Bob Dole wants to put
me m a partisan box. Neither
one of those is gomg to happen"
What IS going to happen,
Kelly saId, IS that he will be
prepared to respect the differences
of opInion that invariably
turn the politIcal process mto a
prolonged, arduous give-and
take.
"What I dIscovered after
workin~ with people for 16
years is that every single one of
those people commg from their
districts had a dIfferent point of
view I had to understand that
poInt of VIew, to find out what
the common linkages were,"
Kelly said.
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