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Samuel M. Lohman Oklahoma City...
...money is the mother's milk of politics, two well-suckled races are under way in Oklahoma and New York. Tulsa Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is being targeted by a heavily financed Republican effort. Manhattan's Bill Green has met a match as rich as he: Andrew Stein...
...Oklahoma Democrat James Jones commands a lot of respect in Congress. He is patient and intelligent, moderate and courageous. Yet the Republicans very badly want to defeat him, indeed to skin him, and not just because he comes from a conservative, Republican district. As chairman of the Budget Committee, Jones has led the floor fight against the President's proposed budgets, all of which projected deficits so large that no Republican dared sponsor them. He has also committed the even greater sin of offering budget plans of his own with lower deficits. To cap it off, Jones has countered...
Keating calls Jones "a Tip O'Neill liberal, a Walter Mondale liberal." Jones, who has often bucked House Speaker O'Neill by supporting budget cuts and has carefully distanced himself from Mondale, counters, "I am an independent voice for Oklahoma...
...some of his wife's earnings on disclosure forms. Says his campaign manager Cole Finegan: "I've never seen Jim Jones this intense and enthusiastic." Jones' ads refute a Keating claim that Keating never lost a case as a prosecutor and end with the kicker, "In Oklahoma, we believe a man is only as good as his word...