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<br />Merson Flatly Predicts <br />;Board Won't Build Dam <br /> <br />Continued from page 31. <br /> <br />primary ballot in a late attempt to run <br />for the U,S, Senate. <br />f In last. week's Interview, Merson <br />,wouldn't rule out the possibility he may <br />'seek office again. "1 certainly at this <br />point wouldn't be enthusiastic about run. <br />ning for public office for one reason: <br />money, '.' he said. <br />Without publIc fmancing of elections, a <br />congressional candidate is forced either <br />to spend large sums of his own money- <br />which Merson did previollsly-or to seek <br />donations which later may COmpromi~ <br />him, Merson Said. <br /> <br />"IT'S A TERRIBLY difficult and, I <br />think, a degrading process to raise <br />''1l.oney,'' he said, adding that he doubts <br />be would seek office soon-if ever, <br />I Merson grew Up in Brooklyn,. N.Y" and <br /> <br />Great Neck on Long Island, <br />The son of a mining company execu. <br />tive, he attended Deerfield Academy in <br />Massachusetts, received his bachelor and <br />law degrees from Harvard and later stud- <br />Ied at the University of Chicago, Aspen <br />Music School and Graduate Theological <br />Union in Berkeley, Calif, <br />Merson said he benefited from his fa. <br />ther's job as vice preSident of NL Indus- <br />tries. "That's one reason I've always <br />taken industry's statements at face value <br />until they've proved to be false." <br />Merson moved to Colorado in 1968 after <br />a three-year stint as a Navy officer and <br />six years in Alaska spent mostly in the <br />legal profession. <br />He taught law at the University of <br />Denver from 1968 until last year. .He also <br />served on the Colorado Land Use Com- <br />mission, to which he was appointed by <br />Gov. Dick Lamm. <br /> <br /> <br />.,'" <br /> <br />(0 <br />1(0 <br />(0 <br />o <br /><::> <br /> <br />. . Oenver Po~t Fholo by Kenn Bisio <br />, '. ' ACKDROP IN ALAN MERSON'S OFFICE " <br />' MURAL OF THE EARTH AS SEEN FRO~h TH~ MOI~i~~~,d~d enlorcer 01, the law, to carry out policy. . . <br />M 'd - "I'm trying to do nothmg more an e a <br />Eusonsal . _ <br />