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before polluters took over.

Taking some gas and oil taxes...

...you could clean up this harbor,

get some real law enforcement...

...on that dump across the bay.

Let's put it together

and give California another chance.

For a better way,

Bill McKay!

I feel that a lot of the politicians...

...don't talk to the people.

There's no dialogue.

People don't listen...

...and the politicians don't talk.

They make sounds. It's just noise.

I think the government has

overlooked that one point.

Bill McKay wants to make

our system work...

...for all of us.

To put real faith and hope

back into government...

...for a better way in the U.S. Senate,

Bill McKay.

To tackle the problems...

...of the 1970's, we need

all the strength a young man can give.

Bill McKay has it.

The conviction to push

for real solutions for...

...unemployment, poverty and crime.

The will to put action back

into the United States Senate...

...to fight special interests...

...on behalf of all the people

of California.

For a better way, Bill McKay.

- They're awfully good.

- Thanks, Howard.

It comes at a good time.

What happened to the bit

about the health clinics?

You want health clinics?

I'll give you health clinics.

I'm Bill McKay. I'm running for U.S.

Senate. I'd like to ask you a question.

They don't respond.

What about what I'm saying?

What about it?

- That's totally unacceptable.

- What do you know about this?

If we can afford

to put a man on the moon...

...we can put health clinics

in every city in this state!

It will help create more jobs too.

We can start training people for medical

careers, right in their own community.

Grim scene, baby.

Grim scene.

You're off into other issues.

You look uptight. Nobody is listening

and nobody is digging you.

Aside from that though,

it's a great bit.

So the money bill

now goes to committee.

Despite continued dryness

and the threat of new fires...

...it was politics as usual

around the state today.

Crocker Jarmon campaigned in

Long Beach where he visited the Rams...

...with a present for the coach.

I was just presenting the coach

with a copy of Life Magazine...

...because they have it in this

issue on the newsstands today...

...how much it meant

when, in the locker room...

...with my little grandson, Dickie,

we saw all those big tough guys...

...on their knees...

Shooting crap!

...in a simple moment of prayer.

You should get some sleep.

- This TV stuff isn't working.

- Give it a chance.

I'm not talking to anyone,

and I'm not saying anything.

You're showing your face.

That's what we have to sell first.

Exposure.

Take a little glance at these polls

Klein had done in key counties.

In every one you were up 3 to 4 points.

You know what I'm going to do?

Learn about economics?

I'm going to challenge Jarmon

to a crapshoot.

Crapshoot is a matter

of individual enterprise.

Crapshoot made this country great.

God made this country great.

God shoots crap.

My little grandson saw Him.

Get off.

There's been a change of plan.

What about the group in San Diego?

Never mind, we've got a fire

in Malibu. It's perfect.

I'm looking down at

a major brush and forest fire.

It looks to be about

a 30 square mile area...

...on both sides of the mountain.

There's the ABC helicopter.

The wire service must be there.

We can hit him on 3 points. The fire

disaster insurance, watershed stuff...

...and fire prevention program.

I want to do the watershed.

Fires like this come from neglect.

These people are losing their homes!

Their companies won't underwrite them.

Jarmon is against the federal

government getting into it.

Don't make it an issues thing. It'll

look like making political capital.

We're not making political capital.

Don't hit them over the head with it.

Start with the watershed,

and then go into insurance, okay?

We've lost 40 homes so far.

To me this is a result of

what we've been talking about.

And that is when you

erode the watershed...

...with indiscriminate

road building and development...

...you lose the root system

that keeps the water in the ground...

...drying the brush out.

You know who that is?

Smokey the Bear.

Attention, please!

The Senator has a statement.

Hit him with the debate.

- I'm still hoping to debate you.

- I don't blame you a bit.

Glad to see you've got your wetsuit on.

Everybody set?

I will make this very brief.

I have been on the phone

with the President.

One hour from now Malibu

will be declared...

...a National Disaster Area.

And I am assured...

...within the next 24 hours...

...this fire will be checked.

Our concern is to make

absolutely certain...

...these disasters

do not occur in the future.

That is why I am very happy to see...

...that Mr. McKay took the trouble

to be here for this announcement.

When I leave here,

I'll fly back to Washington...

...to introduce

the Jarmon Watershed Bill...

...which will include provisions...

...for federally financed

disaster insurance.

I think I can guarantee

swift passage of that bill...

...through the Senate Finance Committee,

because I happen to be Chairman.

We are doing all we can...

...and I want to add my personal thanks

to all the heroic volunteers...

...who've risked their lives

in this holocaust...

...to save the homes of their neighbors.

Your actions and your efforts

have been an inspiration to us all.

So I say good-bye,

God bless you and good luck.

- Do you have a statement?

- What's your reaction?

What about the Watershed Bill?

I haven't read the bill.

Sounds like a good proposal.

Look, it's an emergency.

I welcome any action at all.

Mr. Jarmon...

...says he's taking

his case to the public.

Then why does he refuse

to meet me in open debate?

Jarmon is the one!

Mr. Jarmon says

the economy is moving again.

Then why is my San Diego office

filled with people seeking work?

I say there's got to be a better way.

We have to retool some of our industry.

We have to build mass transit...

...and make things that people can use.

I'm sorry,

I'll have it fixed in a second.

It doesn't matter.

Never mind.

I'm sorry, this has got to be lunch.

Jenkin's got 500 farmers in a

high school gym over in Bakersfield.

They're furious about

the whole farm program.

And Jarmon is the one

that got it out of committee.

A better way.

And that way is to subsidize

the small farmer directly...

...rather than pay the huge

agricultural combine to wipe him out.

Are there any questions?

I'd be happy to respond

to anything that's on your minds.

Any comments?

Suggestions?

Dirty jokes?

Damn that Jenkin, why couldn't he

phone and say there's no one there?

He probably tried.

Where is he,

off with some farmer's daughter?

You hear Evans and Novak? It'll be in

every paper in the state tomorrow.

- Just leave us alone, please!

- We must counteract this or we're dead.

They want the candidate's statement.

They file in half an hour.

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