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SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)

Gov. Dolph Briscoe came in

for Some severe criticism for

alleged lack of Ieadership

Thursday ata seminar attend.

ed by more than 30 edtWitor's.

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"Briscoe is not atypical

" Democrat," one member of

Briscoe's party submitted in

defense of the Democrats at the

program arranged by the Taft

Instituteof Government'

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The speaker was research

director Rita Carpenter of the

TexasRepublican party ana

she criticized Briscoe for lack

of leadership on School finance.

Ms. Carpenter described San-'

Antonio's Edgewood School

DistriCt as "a firetrap, filthy,

pitiful" and blamed it on the

one-party system. in Texas

failing to deal with equitable

, financing in the various school,

districts.

"Edgewood people pay the'

highest per capita school taxes,

higher'than even Briscoe's"

on the governors large landhold. "

ings in Southwest Texas, she

said, adding some of the money

should have gone 'to school

districts such as Edgewood. '

, Ms, Carpenter said the ,

apppriations bill passed in the

last legislature eventually would

result in a $2 billion tax bill in

, Texas. "The 64th Legislature

won',t be apart of a new lax

bill, but the 65th will and you

should remember where it's

coming from.

"Most agencies requested x-

amount of' funds and they

,

received x-plus and now

they have to figure out what'to

do with it."

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She also criticized Briscoe for

failing to help get last summer's

$5.3 million Constitutional ReVi-

sion Convention off high center.

"BriscOe had 12 inVitations

(to at ten d) and each time

turned it down."

, Ms. Carpenter, one of several

party and public officials from

both parties speaking at the

seminar, said Thursday' was

,her last day in the research

rare with the state party and

now she is joining ,the n,ational

Republican party in 'a similar

position.

She said Sen. Lloyd M.

Bentsen, D.Tex., a presidential.

contender, "isone of 'our

targets."

The RepublicjU1 said her work

with the national party-would

include vote record analysis'and

biographical work on the

Democratic candidates, "but

not dirty tricks.'"

She said the presidential,

preference primary was sug.

gested for Bentsen's benefit.'

Thisis the old Lyndon Johnson

tacti'c. They aregoing tolet,

Bentsenrunfor the senate as well'

as the presidency:"" .,'