Dist. 43 Representative
Hays:
Strong leaders
can help cut
spending hikes
By WALLY BENSON
Of the Emerald
Republican Maxine Hays is
a Junction City insurance
agency executive running for
the Dist. 43 State Representa
tive seat currently held by
Democrat Ted Kulongoski.
Hays feels Oregon voters
need strong leadership in the
legislature—“people who
know they are up there to do a
job, and to do it the whole time
they are there," She says such
leadership will help curtail the
increase in spending from
legislature to legislature.
"We need to elect officials
who have a view toward fiscal
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spending—who are frugal,”
she says. “We have hit the end
of the spending syndrome and
it’s time to take a good hard
look at government expendi
tures.”
She supports an annual
legislative session with a time
limit of about 60 days for the
off-year session. “We have a
citizen legislature, and they
would have to be professional
legislators if we had a full ses
sion every year.” She feels the
interim committees and the
Emergency Board, which op
erate in the off-year, are busier
and have more power than
they should.
She thinks the Land Con
servation and Development
Commission (LCDC) has not
done a very good job, as she
says they have too much
power. “It is an appointed
board, and it shouldn’t have as
much power as it does." She
feels the members of the
board don’t sincerely consider
citizen input when making de
cisions. She favors keeping
the LCDC a statewide board,
but believes it should be
elected rather than appointed.
Hays is not in favor of the
initiative petition to prohibit
corporate farming, because
she doesn’t think it will do the
job it is meant to. She favors
saving family farms, but is not
sure corporate farms should
be banned, because in many
instances, corporate farms
have the capital to harvest
more efficiently.
She hopes for improvement
in field burning control and
favors an extension of the
1978 burning cutoff date if a
viable solution cannot be
found.
To ease the energy crunch,
Hays says the consumer
needs to realize that we are,
indeed, losing our resources.
She opposes the nuclear
safeguards ballot measure,
and feels we have to develop
nuclear power as an energy
source.
She opposes ballot meas
ure A, which takes money from
the state s highway fund and
channels it into mass transit,
because “there is no limit on
who can be taxed and for how
much.’’
She favors an open primary,
because “There are a great
number of Independents who
are not represented in the cur
rent system. An open primary
would be worth a try.”
The only way Hays says
she would support restoration
of the death penalty would be
in the case of terrorists. She
feels a better way to deal with
serious crimes is to increase
sentencing for felonies involv
ing arms.
Kulongoski:
Hopes to end field burning, cut legislative spending
By WALLY BENSON
Of the Emerald
Eugene attorney Ted
Kulongoski is seeking re
election to the District 43 State
representative seat he has
held since 1974.
Kulongoski believes in the
legislative mandate of 1971
and hopes it will put an end to
open field burning in the Wil
lamette Valley." He feels time
will develop an adequate field
burning machine, but wants
more emphasis put on de
veloping straw utilization. He
says if more straw is baled and
McDonald:
Cut unemployment by
attracting new business
By WALLY BENSON
Of the Emerald
Jim McDonald, Republican
running for the Dist. 43 State
Representative seat currently
held by Democrat Ted Kulon
goski, is a Veneta sales rep
resentative. He has never be
fore held an elected govern
mental position.
His main goal is to reduce
Oregon’s unemployment by
attracting new businesses
wishing to expand.
Jim McDonald
Oregon Daily Emerald
McDonald doesn't think the
Land Conservation and De
velopment Commission
(LCDC) has done a good job.
He favors land use planning
through districts closer to
home, such as the Florence
Planning Committee, wherein
local planners will have real
public input and will care more
about their area.
McDonald admits he is
“right down the middle" on the
subject of corporate farming.
He says with the cost of de
veloping land being eight
times what the land costs, no
family farm in Oregon can
handle the expense. He does,
however, favor small farms
when feasible.
On the field burning issue,
McDonald says, "Let ’em burn
it," but with strict Department
of Environmental Quality re
strictions. He wants a "right
now solution" for a field burn
ing apparatus to hold down
smoke pollution.
He feels we have to resor
to nuclear, “at least for a while
until we develop wind, solai
and geothermal energy." H€
doesn’t like nuclear power be
cause it needs too many
safeguards and is too expen
sive, but considers it a "neces
sary evil stopgap."
McDonald supports an oper
primary, “so people can vote
for whom they really want.” He
says he already works with
eight legislators to get the
open primary.
Concerning the Legislature,
McDonald sees “strong merit”
for some sort of annual ses
sion. “we’ve got to start look
ing at 30-45 day sessions in
the off year,” he says. He
doesn’t want to go to a yearly
session, but fears that is the
direction in which the Legisla
ture is heading, as the number
of bills before it increases.
He wants to stop the 37 per
cent average increase in
spending from one session to
the next. He says he would do
this by eliminating some ser
vices to streamline the budget.
He pledges to work for reten
tion of the vital services—fire
and police protection to name
a few—but to cut out the “fat.”
Regarding mass transit,
McDonald favors the possibil
ity of electric cars on railroad
tracks for inter-city travel. Also
he likes the idea of commuter
plane service, if it can be made
to work.
McDonald also favors capi
tal punishment in a few
cases—“like the life-time sen
tenced felon who kills a guard
a year"—and opposes all gun
i control legislation.
sold, machines will have an
easier time burning the stub
ble.
He is a strong proponent of
regulating corporate farming.
He’s not opposed to it, as long
as there is a “way of regulating
the prices on the products they
sell.”
Kulongoski says cutting
legislative spending is difficult
in the face of “more and more
citizens demanding services
from the government.” He
proposes to offer no more ser
vices than the citizens ask for,
but acknowledges the neces
sity of spending. "If people
keep asking government to
supply new services, how can
we cut taxes?”
He favors an annual session
of the Legislature, as it is a
“horrendous task to consider
3,000 bills in a six-month
period, especially because the
subject matter of the bills is so
broad." Kulongoski feels we
can’t have an effective gov
ernment if it only meets once
every 18 months, and that it is
extremely difficult to budget
two years in advance. He
thinks the off-year session
could be held to 90 days, and
concern itself solely with
budgetary matters.
Kulongoski says he has no
great argument with allowing
Independents the right to vote
for whichever candidate they
want, but fears that an open
primary system may violate
the freedom of association. “If
a person wants to vote for the
officers of a club, he should
have to be a member of that
club.”
He favors mass transit in
urban areas, but admits that
ridership is a problem. He says
for any mass transit system to
work, the citizens have to
change their lifestyles volun
tarily.
Ted Kulongoski
Kulongoski feels the Land
Conservation Development
Commission (LCDC) is doing
what it is required to do. He
says it was created to inform
local governments of the
needs of land use planning in
their areas. He feels a problem
arises because the local gov
ernments don't want to do any
planning.
With respect to energy con
servation, Kulongoski feels
that in the end, solar energy
will be the answer to our
energy needs. He says indi
viduals need to do more to
curb energy use, and that the
government needs a program
telling people how to con
serve. He opposes nuclear
power for cost reasons—‘‘Why
spend so much time and
money when nuclear power is
just a short term solution to the
problem?”
Kulongoski does not favor
restoration of the death pen
alty. He feels only those from
the lower social-economic
class will be punished under
the statute.
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