When you have friends in both houses, it makes it a little bit easier to get legislation moving. He's proud that during his earlier terms he was able to pass a law requiring mobile home parks to give advance notice to residents when the parks were being closed. That law, he said, resulted from The Dominion Post's coverage of a local park closing. Claypole said if elected, he would work further on economic development. We need jobs.
Diversity has to occur.
It has somewhat in high-tech areas. Manufacturing is what we do need and it has taken a back seat at this time. He predicted the new Legislature will still be dealing with financing PEIA, the public employees' insurance service. And he supports the West Run Expressway, something he began talking about in his last term in office. Return to the listing of articles of January 13, 2000.