Recall attempt fails,
Archie stays in office
Lane County Commissioner Archie
Weinstein survived the threat of recall in
Tuesday’s election.
Weinstein “won" with 38,906 votes, or
44 percent, while recall supporters car
ried 48,754 votes (56 percent).
The controversial county commis
sioner said the vote to keep him in office
"is not a victory for Archie Weinstein. It’s
a victory for the democratic process. ”
Weinstein charged the local media
with fostering problems in Lane County
government, but declined to comment
specifically on the balloting.
"We proved that America is going to
stay and the Star-Spangled Banner' is
going to be the national anthdm
forever," he said. Elsewhere in the
county, former Springfield Mayor Vance
Freeman defeated opponent Bill Mor
risette Tuesday In the race for the
newly-created Springfield district
commissioner’s seat.
Morrisette, a social studies teacher
with experience on a variety of citizen
committees, lost with 7,408 (43 percent)
votes to Freeman's 9,757 (57 percent)
total.
Throughout his campaign. Freeman
stressed his understanding of Spring
field issues and concern for individual
citizens. He also supported Ballot
Measure 10, which sought to nullify
state-adopted planning goals.
Morrir.ette charged that Freeman's
support from builders and real estate
people indicated how he would vote if
elected to the county commissioner’s
seat.
In the East Lane district, Lane County
employee Otto t’Hooft defeated chal
lenger Bob Smith. t’Hooft won with 53
percent — 9,541 votes—of the district ’s
vote to Lowell Mayor Smith’s 47 percent
— 8,246 votes — tally.
t’Hooft favors establishing field offices
in outlying areas to work with rural
residents. He also proposes decen
tralized land-use planning that would
grant more power to individual property
owners, charging that county land-use
planning has been done in "an unrepre
sentative fashion” in the past.
Harold Rutherford edged past Ed
Reindl for the West Lane district county
commissioner’s position. Rutherford
earned 8,948 votes, or 53 percent, while
Reindl gained 7,761 votes (47 percent).
Photo by Donri* Hfcfcok
County Commissioner Archie Weinstein celebrated the defeat of his attempted recall
at the Eugene Hotel Tuesday night, calling the win a ‘‘victory for the United States of
America."
Weaver defeats Lausmann a second time
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
At 10 p.m. Tuesday Republican Con
gressional District challenger Jerry Laus
mann was predicting a victory for Ns cam
paign.
Nearly an hour later Lausmann con
ceded defeat to incumbent Democratic
Congressman Jim Weaver. The victory was
the second time in two years that Weaver
defeated Lausmann for the Fourth Con
gressional District seat.
Lausmann, who followed the election re
suits from a Medford motel, said he felt
Weaver’s next two years would be influ
enced by the campaign stands taken in this
election. Fiscal matters would be closely
watched in the next Congressional session,
he said.
“I consistently attacked big government
during all of my campaign,” Lausmann
said. ”1 think a lot of people perceived the
incumbent as making a shift in the middle of
the stream.”
Weaver's fiscal conservatism didn't sur
face until television commercials began to
paint him as a “big spender,” Lausmann
said.
Lausmann, a Medford Plywood mill
owner whose campaign staff included
workers from the Republican National
Committee in Washington, D.C., conceded
defeat to Weaver at 1055 p.m. Speaking
from a pay telephone in the Eugene Hotel,
Weaver accepted the concession and con
gratulated Lausmann on Ns campaign.
“Also I feel that in these times of inflation
people just felt the Democrats could do a
better job,” Weaver said.
With more than 80 percent of the Lane
County precincts reporting, Weaver de
feated Lausmann by nearly 20,000 votes.
Vote counts for the entire Fourth District put
Weaver ahead by nearly 15,000 votes.
Weaver, however, told reporters his re
cord on fiscal matters was open to the pub
lic long before the election. It was that re
cord, and his rejection of nine of 13 federal
appropriations bills before the 95th Con
gress, that aided his victory, he explained.
David Mason, a University graduate stu
dent who headed the Democrats for Laus
mann campaign, said Lausmann’s cam
paign and this year's political dimate forced
Weaver to take conservative stands, which
may affect Fourth District representation in
the next session of Congress.
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