U.S. Senate candidates
Daly: fighting blacklist tactics
The immediate resignation or im
peachment of President Nixon, civil rights
for all people, and the elimination of
blacklist tactics against those who sue to
protect their careers (teachers, civil ser
vants, and others) are some of the major
stands expressed by Robert Daly, can
didate for U.S. Senate.
Daly, age 45, wants to see those who
"stole from the consumer's food budget"
by the recent grain and wheat deal, pay it
back. He thinks Nixon used the "deal" to
buy his way into Russia, so he could look
good on foreign relations.
"The $50 billion increase in food didn't
seem to matter to Nixon," said Daly. Who
got it, and the $300 million subsidy
payment giveaway? Pack wood and the
other senators forgot to investigate it.
Why? This is reason enough for Nixon and
his bunch of thieves to resign," he
asserted.
Daly favors roll back of gasoline and
heating oil prices (as well as subsidies to
independent service stations) to get them
back into the market. He would rather see
something else cut back on the national
budget to make this possible.
"People have invested a third of their
income, in many cases, to purchase cars. It
would be a shame, all of a sudden, for
Nixon to look the other way," he insisted.
Daly thinks the constitution should be
amended so people could recall any elected
official, from the President and Vice
President down to the lowest elective
office. He wants people to be able to
petition a special election after obtaining "a
reasonable amount of signatures, ten per
cent or so."
Daly recently won a jury verdict in his
lawsuit against a Washington school
district, for "preventing him from per
forming duties" in 1965-1966 as a
psychologist. He claims he was dismissed
without due cause, and that the school
district slandered his religion and
qualifications, in the process.
Daly filed a "religious discrimination"
complaint resulting in a ruling stating that
political conflicts in the school district were
the causes for the breach. He won the
lawsuit in Mason County Superior Court
after an eight-year fight, seven law firms,
appeals, and two trials.
Robert Daly
Daly was an employment counselor at the
Oregon State Employment Service in 1969
after the suit. His job was terminated
immediately on a charge of inefficiency.
He filed the first racial discrimination
complaint by a white in Oregon history and
won a "reverse discrimination" complaint.
Oregon, however, refused to comply,
forcing Daly to re-enter U.S. District Court
in Portland, on Dec. 18, 1973. He lost the
case and is currently appealing the
decision.
During the past five years, Daly has been
unable to obtain professional employment,
except an 18 week stint as a researcher at
Seattle University. According to Daly,
private employers have also joined the
blacklist against his right of employment.
Daly received his bachelor's and his
master's degree in psychology at University
of California at Santa Barbara. He has been
an administrator-counselor at Ft. Lewis,
employment counselor for Oregon, school
psychologist, math teacher, recreation
director, sports writer, accountant and
aviation electronics technician. He was
honorably discharged from the United
States Navy, after serving in World War II.
Betsy Caren
-County commissioner candidates
Gori Pizzella
Pizzella . . .
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He favors county medical clinics
and dental programs for the
underprivileged as well as county
subsidized day care.
Pizzella says that the Depart
ment of Environmental Quality
has too much power and has been
letting the bugs eat up all the food
by forbidding the use of DDT.
Pizzella, 60, is a new-comer to
Eugene politics. He ran for office
the first time last year when he
made an unsuccessful attempt for
the office of mayor. He has had a
wide range of business
background as he has had an ice
cream company, a wrecking yard,
a military surplus store, a tavern
and an ice business. He has lived
in Eugene over eight years.
Gale Rohde
Norris: guided by
will of the people
To open the door of the Lane County com
missioner's office to the comments of the citizens of
the county and to find a solution to the county's
solid waste disposal problem are the main goals of
Republican primary candidate Raymond Norris.
Norris, 50, of Creswell, is running for the county
commissioner seat currently held by Republican
Kenneth Omlid.
"There now exists a sort of closed door policy by
two of the commissioners," said Norris. "You can
hardly ever get in to see Commissioners Omlid and
Hayward. If I'm elected, my door will always be open
to the public."
Norris favors allowing private industry to show the
county what it has to offer as a solution to the solid
waste disposal problem.
"I am directly opposed to condemning the Ayres
property for a sanitary landfill, or to condemning any
farmland for that matter," Norris said.
He is also opposed to the bond issue to fund the
building of a solid waste recycling plant which will be
on the May 28 ballot. He said the county has not
given careful consideration to what it needs in a solid
waste recycling plant. "We don't even have a set of
specifications on which contractors can bid to build
the plant."
Norris wants private firms to demonstrate to the
county solutions they have for disposing of solid
waste and then have the county decide which of the
plans it wants. "It's yet to be proven to me," he said,
"that government, at any level, can do a job cheaper
than private industry."
Norris also favors cutting the county's annual
contribution to the Lane Council of Governments (L
COG). He said L-COG, an agency which distributes
federal and state funds to county agencies along
with other activities, is "too dictatorial, too all
powerful." It requires agencies to meet its
specifications before it will give them funds."
Norris has several other ideas to reduce county
spending. He said the county has taken over many
programs, especially social services such as medical
care and welfare, that were formally handled by
other groups, such as charities and churches. "Too
many able-bodied people are taking advantage of
these county programs rather than working to
support themselves," Norris said. He favors cutting
out some of these programs to reduce spending.
Ray Norris
Norris is opposed to what he called "the squan
dering of money on endless studies" such as the
proposed county internal reorganization plan. He
said such a plan would cost $60,000 a year for ad
ditional personnel. Rather, "let's look at what current
county employes are doing. If they all worked the full
eight-hour day they are paid for, we wouldn't need
more personnel," he said.
To increase the county's income, Norris advocates
selling much of the publicly owned land in the
county. "Seventy-three per cent of the county's land
is in public ownership," he said. "Let's sell that land
to private owners and get it on the tax rolls."
Norris believes selling public land will encourage
new industries to enter Lane County. He said that
this will spur growth in the economy and reduce
unemployment.
Norris believes the county's 1990 plan setting up
guidelines for growth is "being used as a crutch to
prevent industry from coming into the county." "If
Hayward and Omlid don't want a certain industry to
locate here, they say it doesn't conform to the 1990
plan." Norris says he would consider whether the
public wants a particular industry to come to the
county and base his decision on its wishes.
Norris said that though he often agrees with
Commissioner Frank Elliott, and disagrees with
Nancy Hayward, he is "not going in there as a
rubber stamp for anybody. I'm going in there to do
the will of the people."
Judy Hucka
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Pd by Whitehead for Senate Comm., 93
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STATE SENATOR