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State rep incumbents
handle all challengers
It was a night for the incumbents in Lane
County’s state representative races Tuesday.
Whether Democrat or Republican, all won handily
over their challengers.
Republican Dave Frohnmayer kept his Distnct
40 seat by the largest margin, winning by 73 per
cent against Democrat Don Chalmers’ 27 per
cent. ..
University law professor Frohnmayer said ne
wore out a pair of shoes visiting 3,000 voters
homes during the campaign. The incumbent said
he is looking forward to “one of the longest and
most difficult legislative sessions in the state’s
history."
Chalmers accepted his loss philosophically,
saying his candidacy made a difference in the
race.
“I wanted to let people know about the alterna
tives — that there was someone who took a
strong stand on human health and safety,” he
said.
The liberal, pro-environmentalist promised he’ll
run again. “I’m real pleased with the election we
didn’t win,” he said.
In a repeat of the 1976 contest for the District 39
representative's seat, four-year Democratic in
cumbent Grattan Kerans won by 57 percent over
Republican challenger Gary Wright’o 43 percent.
Kerans said Tuesday night that one goal for the
legislative session should be stabilization of the
tax system.
Rep. Nancie Fadeley will return to her fifth con
secutive term for District 42, beating Republican
Dick Wine by 60 percent to 40 percent. She attri
buted her win to “a good sense of my peo
ple," referring to her constituents.
Fadeley said she wants legislative tax relief to
distinguish between “non-income” or residential
property and business property. High on her list of
priorities are energy legislation and expanding the
Displaced Homemakers’ program.
“I’m tired, excited, pleased—and now I want to
get down to business,” said Republican incum
bent Mary Burrows after defeating Democrat Tom
Fagan by 68 percent to 32 percent in the District
41 race.
“I never thought Measure 6 would pass,” she
said, "but the issue isn’t dead.” She thinks the
Legislature will be looking at property tax relief
and government expenditure limitations on both
local and statewide levels. She has served in the
House since 1972.
District 21 State Sen. Ed Fadeley held his seat
against Republican challenger Rod Palmer, win
ning by 61 percent to 39 percent. Commenting on
Victor Atiyeh’s governorship win, Fadeley said
Tuesday night, "He'll try to give away the family
jewels of Oregon, but we won’t let him. There’s
more of us than there are of him.”
Fadeley said his major concerns for the coming
session are tax relief, energy for the state and
keeping higher education financed. "We can’t tax
the students too much with tuition or we won’t
have anyone smart enough to vote on tax meas
ures,” he said.
Republican Sen. George Wingard kept hie Dis
trict 20 post without much difficulty, because he
ran unopposed. Even so, he got votes... 64 per
cent in his favor.
Democratic Sen. Ted Kulongoskl from Junction
City won his first voter-approved term for District
22, defeating Republican James Pack by 55 per
cent to 45 percent.
Kulongoski's major concerns are tax relief
and funding for higher education. He interprets
the failures of Measures 6 and 11 as “the people
saying ‘we re giving the legislature another
chance,’ ’’ and says the session must come up
with a tax proposal by next May.
He favors state funding of higher education
from the general fund instead of property taxing.
“I’d hate to see it become the domain of the weal
thy," he said, noting that the legislature has lost
five friends of higher education in the election.
Haws retains council seat
Incumbent Eugene Councilman Eric Haws sur
vived a challenge from political newcomer Ted
Brandt in Tuesday's election, carrying 61 percent of
the votes in the Bethel ward.
Brandt, the owner and manager of his own
ceramic tile xrntracting business, earned 39 percent
of the Ward 6 votes.
Haws, who is an attorney in the Bethel area,
stressed his prior experience in city government dur
ing his campaign. In addition to serving on the city
council, he chaired Active Bethel Citizens and sat on
the Bethel Land Use Committee.
Brandt cited his experience in business man
agement and his commitment “to the free enterprise
system ” as the major qualifications for his city council
candidacy.
Haws is generally considered the more liberal
candidate of the two, but often takes a maverick
position in his votes on the city council.
In his first four-year term on the council, Haws
worked to increase city services to the Bethel
Danebo area whose residents claimed they were not
receiving their fair share of the city budget.
Haws’ victory — with 2,439 votes to Brandt's
1,402 —marks a probability shift in the philosophy of
the Eugene City Council. In the past, Mayor Gus
Keller decided many of the council's deadlocked
votes and sided with its more conservative faction.
But changes in the council’s members in last
May’s primary election, and Haws' re-election, hint
that the council may take a more progressive stance
in the future.
Hatfield smothers challenger |
Republican Mark Hatfield kept intact his unde
feated election record Tuesday night, turning back
Democrat Vem Cook to win a third straight term as a
U.S. Senator from Oregon.
Hatfield, who outspent Cook, 14-1, was taking
63 percent of the vote with 43 percent of the vote in.
A familiar name in Oregon, Hatfield served in the
State House, the state Senate, was secretary of
state, was governor for two terms before being
elected to the U.S. Senate in 1967.
Hatfield, now on the verge of being in the top
third in seniority in the Congress, is a long time critic
of runaway government spending and is especially
critical of military spending. He criticized Congress
this year for passing a military budget that was over
the amount specified by the Pentagon.
Hatfield will now be the ranking minority member
of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee,
and a high ranking member of the Senate Appropria
tions Committee.
Hatfield repeatedly declined debate challenges
from Cook, a state senator from Gresham. Hatfield
said he had stated his views already.
Hatfield felt it unnecessary to campaign exten
sively, even though he admitted a fight from Cook.
' Anytime there's another name on the ballot there's a
challenge,” he says.
Wednesday, November 8, 1978