Gov. Straub toots his Democratic horn
Candidate calls
for Democratic
support in May
Gov. Bob Straub squeezed re
minders of his accomplishments
as governor in between reverant
references to ghosts of Demo
crats past in his keynote address to
the State Democratic Party’s
biennial platform convention held
Saturday at Springfield's Rode
way Inn.
By MARY BETH ALLEN
Of the Emerald
Straub, who will have to fight for
his party’s nomination in the May
Democratic gubernatorial prim
ary, made a strong bid for fellow
party members’ votes in his
speech, as well as reaffirming his
commitment to traditional Demo
cratic philosophies.
"I’m in politics because I care
about issues,’’ Straub said. He
stressed his willingness to take
stands on controversial issues, cit
ing as a recent example his posi
tion favoring state financing of
welfare abortions.
I received 12,000 letters
against what I did on the abortion
issue — so I need your help," said
the governor.
Gou Bob Straub, the keynote speaker Saturday at the Democratic
p attorm convention, sees Democratic lawmakers as essential to the
Photo by Russell Unebarger
state s present and future well-being Straub is campaigning for the
Democratic primary May 23.
Another major issue that Straub
has taken by the horns is that of
Oregon’s numerous state boards
and commissions in Oregon that
are dominated by the industry that
the board is supposed to be reg
ulating,” he said.
After paying homage to Ken
nedy, Truman, Humphrey and
especially Roosevelt, Straub said,
“The citizens of Oregon helped
me set my agenda. I heard their
requests and saw their needs, and
I found my programs.
“In the last two legislatures, with
the help of Democratic majorities,
I created programs for school fi
nance reform and property tax re
lief. aid to the elderly, utility rate
relief, jobs, and the preservation
of the beauty and environment of
this state.”
Land use planning is a major
concern of Straub's. “I will be an
nouncing in the coming week
Chompoeg II — the Oregon 2000
Program," he said. "This Oregon
2000 commission will have as a
mandate the job of fitting together
all the pieces and evaluating the
impact of present policies that af
fect growth and growth manage
ment in this state.”
Unemployment was the prob
lem that Straub considered his
"single greatest challenge” upon
entering office. When he took over
the governorship, Straub said that
unemployment stood at 12.5 per
cent in Oregon. “It took a lot of
effort, but that rate has fallen
Readily over the past three years
and in February of this year it
stood at 6.1 percent, he said.
Straub stressed that one way
jobs were created was by recruit
ing new industry to Oregon. These
new, “dean" industries also fit into
another aspect of Straub's plan for
Oregon’s future — diversification
of industry. “We re too dependent
on the forest product industry,"
maintains Straub.
Straub quipped, “This old party
of ours is a little bit like Trailblazers
basketball. When it’s good, it’s
very, very good. And when it’s
bad, well, it’s still the best game
around."
"Our philosophies are as di
verse as the people who make
who make up our party,” the gov
ernor said. He feels that in spite of
those differences, Democrats
share a “boldness" of vision that
still makes party lines very impor
tant in Oregon politics.
“Let’s put that boldness to work
.. . and build ... an Oregon that
will meet the challenges of the fu
ture. An Oregon of energy, an
Oregon of environment, and an
Oregon of enterprise,” he con
cluded.
And if the governor has his way,
an Oregon of Bob Straub.
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The delegates then turned to
the vote on the various planks.
Some of their more significant
votes were to:
• Retain a measure providing for
the decommissioning of the Tro
ian nuclear power plant, and to
halt any new construction until
there is a means for safely dispos
ing of the waste.
•Retain provisions opposing the
hunting of whales.
• Reject a 1980 plan on open field
burning until an alternate method
is developed.
• Retain a proposal to support bal
lot measure 3 providing low-cost
housing for the elderly.
• Retain a measure providing for
state-funded abortions for medi
cally indigent women .
• Retain a measure to insure that
abortions would be vailable to all
pregnant women without the con
sent of parents or spouse
• Keep the measure which pro
tects the right of the gay men and
lesbians to teach in public
schools
• Support a person s right to grow
up to seven marijuana plants a
year for personal use.
• Abolish the CIA and strengthen
Congressional overviewing on all
federal intelligence activities.
•Limits smoking to private use
only.
• Retain a measure that would
encourage the Public Utilities
Commissioner to adopt a rate
structure that is equally fair to all
customers
The convention officially ended
at 3 p.m. Sunday. The delegates
feeling tired, but accomplished.
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