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Wayne Allard (R)

SENATE (OPEN SEAT)

BORN: Dec. 2, 1943, Fort Collins

EDUCATION: Colorado State U, D.V.M., 1968

FAMILY: Wife, Joan; two children

RELIGION: Protestant

MILITARY: None

OCCUPATION: Veterinarian

POLITICAL CAREER: Colorado Senate, 1983-90; U.S. House 1990-

ADDRESS: 5555 DTC Park Way, Suite B-2006, Englewood 80111. Tel.: 303-771-5360

After six years in the U.S. House, Allard wants to move to the other side of the Capitol and keep retiring Senator Hank Brown's seat in the party. Allard supports a balanced-budget amendment and a controversial proposal to turn federally owned Colorado ski areas over to resort operators. A social conservative, Allard is against gay rights and favors the death penalty for first-degree murder and certain drug offenses; in the House, he supported a law limiting death-row inmates to one federal appeal.

THE ISSUES

Budget YES

Medicare NO

Defense YES

Abortion YES

Guns NO

Gays YES

Bosnia YES

nafta YES

Welfare NO*

National Service NO

(For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)

QUOTE OF NOTE: "The radical environmentalists want decision making to stay in Washington. They don't want decisions to be made by Coloradans."

Tom Strickland (D)

SENATE (OPEN SEAT)

BORN: May 16, 1952, Houston

EDUCATION: Louisiana State U, B.A., 1974; U of Texas, J.D., 1977

FAMILY: Wife, Beth; three children

RELIGION: Presbyterian

MILITARY: None

OCCUPATION: Lawyer; gubernatorial aide

POLITICAL CAREER: None

ADDRESS: P.O. Box 300279, Denver 80203. Tel.: 303-863-1996

A former L.S.U. defensive lineman who competed in the 1974 Orange Bowl, Strickland is playing in a new arena: national politics. He differs sharply with Wayne Allard's antiabortion views and, though he agrees with Allard on a balanced-budget amendment, Strickland doesn't think a simultaneous tax cut is possible without sacrificing vital social programs.

THE ISSUES

Budget NO

Medicare YES

Defense NO

Abortion YES

Guns YES

Gays YES

Bosnia NO

nafta YES

Welfare YES

National Service YES

(For an explanation of these issues, see the front of this guide.)

QUOTE OF NOTE: "I will give every ounce of my energy trying to stop [Republicans] from undoing years of progress in one area where federal laws have worked: protecting our public lands, cleaning up the water we drink and the air we breathe."

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