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Gantt, Helms race for Senate The Daily Tar HeelThursday, August 30, 19909A seat and ad campaign dollars By WENDY BOUNDS Stan Writer N.C. voters following the 1990 U.S. Senate campaign will find two candi dates running in opposite directions toward the same election-day goal. On Nov. 6, Republican incumbent Jesse Helms, often described as an "ultra-conservative," will face Demo cratic nominee Harvey Gantt, the former mayor of Charlotte and first African American candidate for the U.S. Senate ' in N.C. history. The Helms-Gantt race has received heavy national press coverage, with - many commentators describing trie race as a battle of Old South (Helms) versus New South (Gantt). has a 2 percent lead over Helms, at least ' 10 percent of N.C. voters remain un- - aeciaea, ana uantt iaces an upnui oattie . - . A against a inree-term lncumoent. UAltnc ciirPAce in fViA tioct tlirAA I T Q Senate elections has been lareelv dic- l c tated by his ability to tap this state's deerj reservoir of traditionalists, said David Lowery, chairman of the politi cal sripnrp rlra rtmpnf at JTNC T T " 1 1 1 nis success margin nas oeen rela tively slim, however. In the 1984 elec tion, Helms won with 52 percent of the vote. He took 55 percent in 1978, 54 percent in 1972. ' These close percentages are not due to a lack of campaign spending by Helms. His expenditures ran close to $16.5 million as he vied against Jim Hunt in his 1984 race, the most expen sive race in Senate history. Gantt will try to raise somewhere Gantt's press secretary, Susan Jetton. "We are not going to raise (funds) anywhere near Helms," she said. Helms' high campaign spending is - an effort to combat the attention Gantt .receives from the media, said Helms' press secretary, Beth Burrus. Helms rt Vf 1990 Gantt "Harvey Gantt gets thousands of dol lars of free publicity from the major daily newspapers that are supporting him. We have to raise as much money as possible to answer the biased media," Burrus said. Gantt has followed what Burrus calls "the liberals' plan" by supporting a variety of increased taxes during his four-year reign as mayor of Charlotte. By contrast, she said, Helms has voted with conservatives on several key issues during the past three years. Burrus said Gantt supported higher real-estate, payroll, property, sales and gasoline taxes in Charlotte during his two consecutive terms lasting from 1983-1987. Helms voted against a proposal to limit the testing of space-based anti ballistic missiles, supported the confir mation of RobertBork as Supreme Court justice and is in favor of the death pen alty for drug-related murders. The death penalty will be used as a symbolic issue in this campaign, Lowery said. For Helms, supporting the death penalty will be his way of claiming to be tough on crime. "It will be less the death penalty per se than what it implies in a larger sense," Lowery said. Gantt's across-the-board opposition to the death penalty provoked one of Helms' latest commercials denouncing Gantt for his position on the issue. Gantt retaliated with a similarly de signed commercial specifically con demning Helms anti-abortion stance in cases of rape and incest. Asked if Gantt is being forced to plan his commercials on the basis of what Helms is broadcasting, press secretary and director of research at the N.C. Democratic Headquarters, John Humphrey, said this strategy will soon change. "Helms will have to start chasing Gantt," Humphrey said. Humphrey also said television ad vertising was one aspect of the race in which Gantt is matching Helms finan cially. Jetton denied this claim, saying Gantt's party had not spent anywhere near the amount Helms had. Lowery warned voters not to expect a policy-emphasized campaign. "I ex pect it will be one less addressing of specific political issues than issues of styles." Gantt will try to paint Helms as a negative, divisive senator, while Helms will attempt to identify Gantt with lib erals, communists and homosexuals, Lowery said. The most recent evidence of this came last week when The (Raleigh) News and Observer ran a front-page article saying Gantt had accused Helms of using racist tactics in his campaign strategy. While attending an editorial board meeting of The News and Observer, Gantt was asked if he thought Helms was racist. Gantt answered: "I think clearly his record over the last 18 years would suggest that he's got inclinations to play on people's fears on the race issue." Gantt pointed to Helms' fund-raising letters that have consistently mentioned Gantt's name in connection with other black politicians such as Rev. Jesse Jackson and Democratic National Party chairman Ronald Brown, Jetton said. DTH seeking hard-working staff members who like writing, editing or photography We're back, and we're looking for you! Just about every news desk is looking for talented, hard-working new writers. Journalism experience is not required, but we ask Bart Simpson look-alikes, current Duke students and anyone who doesn't think working for the DTH is a good experi ence to stay at home. If you are interested in trying out to become a staff writer, copy editor or photographer, come out to the infor mation meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in rooms 208 and 209 of the Student Union. Staff writer-wannabes will be asked to write a news story, future copy editors will have to take a copy edit ing test and photogs-to-be need to talk to the photography editors. 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