-State Senate candidates
Fadeley: willing to continue government service
Edward Fadeley, democratic candidate for
state senator from District 21, expressed a
strong stand for mass transit, restoring
credibility in elected officials, recycling,
ecology, and for an increase in government
financing of public education, in a recent
Emerald interview.
Fadeley, an attorney in his own law firm in
Eugene, supports the ballot measure on the
transit issue that will take eight per cent of
Ed Fadeley
the tax money now used for development
of highways and use ft instead for mass
transit. Fadeley successfully led the debate
of this bill when it was presented to the
Legislature.
"Auto's, although convenient, have
become wasteful and expensive," he said.
"The time has come where it costs so
much to build and maintain the highways,
that it isn't feasible to keep the automobile
as our main mode of transportation," he
said.
"If we keep the car as our main tran
sportation, instead of mass transit, this
freedom of movement will cost more than
dollars, in terms of damage to the en
vironment ," Fadeley stressed.
Fadeley also felt strongly about gaining
the support of the people towards
government. He feels their confidence or
lack of it, is what makes or breaks the
proper workings of the government.
Democracy is threatened by the current
politicians who haven't abided by the very
laws they are meant to enforce, Fadeley
said. The cement that keeps government
together is law, and all elected officials
must honor these laws, to maintain
democracy. Fadeley believes that for
government to restore its confidence to
the people, all the officials must act
properly and in the people's best interest,
not their own.
Recycling and a mode of generating
electricity as a power source are important
issues to Fadeley. He would like to see, if
feasible, solid waste disposals that generate
electricity as a by-product. He believes
nuclear power plants are wasteful and
dangerous and would only consider them
as a last alternative in generating power.
Public education on all levels is important
to Fadeley, who was academically in his
class at the University Law School in 1957.
He hopes to convey the idea to the public
that “education is a long term investment
in society." He advocates lowering the cost
of education from grade school to college,
by increasing the taxes now paid to support
public education.
The public needs to be made more aware
of the need to educate future generations
in an increasingly complex society, stressed
Fadeley.
Fadeley has been active in government tor
many years, and says he is willing to
continue government service, although it is
expensive to him. He feels he would be the
type of representative the people want and
need.
Fadeley has served in continuously
elected legislative service since 1961. He
has been chosen chairer of more com
mittees (three) than any other member of
the Legislature. He also serves on more
committees than any other legislator (7 plus
special Public Employes Retirement
System Committee). Fadeley, 44, is also an
active member of the Education Coor
dinating Council and Equal Education
Opportunity Committee.
Betsy Caren
Lindenberger: promises to represent the worker
As state senator, Cass Lindenberger
would work for a "real progressive income
tax” and would "tax the hell out of cor
porations and wealthy individuals."
Lindenberger, a 23-year-old political
science major at the University has based
her campaign on an appeal to the working
class, promising to represent the "working
person of the Eugene-Springfield area".
Lindenberger asserts that the working
people of this state are not adequately
represented now in any level of govern
ment.
"These people make up about 90 per cent
of the registered voters in this country, it is
time their voice was heard," said the
candidate.
Lindenberger is the sole challenger of
democratic incumbent Ed Fadeley, who has
served continuously in the Legislature since
1961. She is confident however, and
asserts that Fadeley fails to keep in contact
with his constituency except at election
time. According to Lindenberger, ac
cessibility is one of the most important
roles of an elected representative. She
would hold monthly public forums and
publish a newsletter in order to keep her
constituency informed.
Lindenberger advocates public health care
and would like to see Oregon become a
trend setter in this area. She wants to see
Cass Lindenberger
an expanded mass transit system and
stricter contrcts on pollution.
As part of her goal to fully represent the
working people, Lindenberger says she will
work for reasonable food and consumer
prices, wages that keep up with the cost of
living with annual 10 per cent cost of living
increases, and a reduction of the work
week as an alternative to layoffs.
Lindenberger considers these goals im
portant enough to justify state control of
industry to initiate wage and hour controls.
She also advocates heavy taxes on
pollution caused by industry and will call for
thorough investigation of the corporate tax
structure aiming at eliminating tax loop
holes.
Lindenberger concedes that such
measures may discourage new industry
from entering Oregon, but asserts that
Oregon is better off without them.
She wants to see a"strong state govern
ment with strong people in it"to stave off
an increasingly powerful federal governm
net.
Lindenberger sees herself as one of these
strong new legislators, an infusion of new
blood into an unresponsive institution.
"At one time there was a reason to elect
only lawyers to the legislature," said
Lindenberger, "It's no longer true. There
are educated, responsible people working
in factories who are able to do the job."
Kathleen Glanville
Congressional candidates district four
Ripper: top concern
inflation, buying power
inflation is the top concern of
Jack Ripper, candidate for the
democratic nomination for
Congress from district four. He
says that wages have not kept up
with prices, and as a result, the
buying power of consumers has
gone down. Ripper would favor a
ceiling on prices and an ad
justment of wages to fit those
prices.
He is also concerned about the
11 per cent prime interest rate.
Because of this high rate, people
are having a harder time getting
loans for building new houses.
This decline in the housing in
dustry is forcing some Oregon
mills to shut down. Ripper favors
legislation to stop the political
manipulation of the prime interest
rate.
Ripper says that continued
economic growth is necessary,
but that planning is needed to
distribute industry throughout the
state so that population is not
concentrated in the big cities. As
a member of the State Senate,
Ripper supported SB 100, the land
use planning bill.
Ripper says he disagrees with
the doomsday approach to
problems. He feels that new
technological developments, such
as greater utilization of timber
products, will be developed to
solve problems.
Log exports "must be brought
under control" and eventually
phased out, says Ripper, who is
from the North Bend-Coos Bay
area, Oregon's biggest lumber
port.
The federal government is doing
"a lousy job" of reforestation,
Jack Ripper
says Ripper. His solution would be
to have 50 per cent of the profit
from a lumber cut "plowed right
back into the ground."
Ripper believes "that the closer
you can get government decisions
to the people, the better
government will be." He would
like to see U.S. Forest Service
decisions made on a regional
rather than national level.
The present form of nuclear
power "is not acceptable," says
Ripper, because of the waste and
problems involved in transporting
it. He also says that nuclear power
is inexpensive. He feels that it is
too late to stop the Trojan Nuclear
Plant in Rainier, but that it should
be phased out.
Ripper would rather see
development of geothermal or
wind power, or non-polluting
nuclear fusion (as opposed to
fission) power.
On impeachment. Ripper says he
would prefer that Nixon resign,
but that "he should be impeached
now."
Ripper doesn't see amnesty if it
came before Congress, however.
He just thinks the time is not ripe
for amnesty now. Ripper was the
chairer of the committee which
passed the open meetings and
open records law, disclosure of
lobby spending law, the conflict
of interest law and the newsman's
shield law.
However, he voted against the
Landlord-Tenant Act (SB 1591
which gave tenants more rights.
Ripper also voted against SB
172, which requires that the state
provide family planning and birth
control services. The bill passed
anyway.
Ripper sees himself as a
moderate. He says he is con
servative on fiscal issues and
liberal on social issues.
“I'm a pragmatist who says you
must reach a consensus as much
as possible on legislation." He
decries government forcing down
the throats of an unwilling public.
"I think the greatest frustration
with government is through the
bureaucrat" who tries to force his
will on the people. "I guess this
puts me in conservative ranks,
wanting legislation that most
people can live with."
Lee Siegel