Commissioner primary victors face runoff
Tuesday’s primary race for
the two open Lane County
Board of Commissioner seats
was consistently close in
South Eugene, while North
Eugene voters were more
decisive.
The final decision for both
races will be made in the
November election, since
none of the candidates cap
tured the required 50 percent
of the vote to secure an im
mediate victory.
Current Eugene city coun
cilor Scott Lieuallen took an
early lead in the field of seven
North Eugene candidates and
held it to the end.
Incumbent Jerry Rust led
Mel Jackson by a narrow mar
gin. The other contender for
the South Eugene seat, Harold
Crooks, trailed far behind
throughout the election tallies.
By 8:45 p.m., Lieuallen led
Hale with 29 to 12 percent of
the vote. Rust was ahead of
Jackson with 44 to 40 percent
of the vote, while Crooks
trailed with 10 percent.
Throughout the evening,
tally percentages remained
essentially the same in both
races. By 10 p.m. Lieuallen led
Hale 2,199 to 965 votes with
Rose and Wooten closely
trailing Hale. Rust tipped the
scales with 4,198 votes to
Jackson’s 3,718.
By 4:00 a m., with 100 per
cent of the precincts report
ing, North Eugene supported
Lieuallen with 3,892 votes, to
Hale’s 1,731 votes.
Rust edged Jackson with
8,045 votes. Jackson totaled
7,068 votes.
“I have to feel pretty good
about this,” Rust said, calling
confidence to get close to 50
percent in a three-way race.”
Rust said his strategy in the
runoff election will be to speak
to the issues. The people of
South Eugene were short
changed in the primary, he
said, because the other can
didates failed to take stands on
issues such as energy, land
use and,fiscal policy.
"Now I'll have a chance to
really look at the issues and
really get involved,” Jackson
said, anticipating debates with
Rust on such issues as double
taxation, the county tax base
and environmental concerns.
“I feel a lot of unhappiness
from the voters,” Jackson
said. "Some of it showed up in
the votes for me and Crooks. ”
Scott Lieuallen said he ex
pected victory from the begin
ning with strong support from
neighborhood groups. "I've
always said neighborhoods
are the basic building blocks
of the community."
“Jim (Hale) is a worthy and
articulate opponent,” Lieual
len said, predicting "a good
clean series of debates over
the annexation of Santa Clara,
energy and the county tax
base."
Voters choose 3 EWEB reps
Sarah Hendrickson upset incumbent Richard
Freeman for a position on the Eugene Water and
Electric Board, while incumbents John Tiffany
and Camilla Pratt both retained their positions in
Tuesday’s primary election.
Hendrickson captured more than 50 percent
of the vote to claim the EWEB position represent
ing Wards 6 and 7. Freeman and candidate James
Hewlett each totaled about 20 percent of the vote.
After learning of her victory, Hendrickson
expressed relief and said she will spend the next
month carefully watching the EWEB board to
begin the transition into her new post.
‘‘EWEB needs to continue the policy of
change that has been set up in the last two years,’’
she said, adding that dealing with the current
energy shortage is the utility’s biggest hurdle.
“In order for these changes to happen, there
must be unanimous backing of energy conserva
tion.” Hendrickson said this backing must come
from the community and the city, as well as
EWEB.
“We must get everyone behind it, or else we
won’t have the will to deal with what's going on,”
she said.
In her campaign, Hendrickson stressed that
EWEB must include the weatherization of re
sidential, commercial and industrial buildings in
its future energy plans.
Hendrickson supports the development of
renewable alternatives to coal and nuclear power,
such as cogeneration, low-head hydro, geother
mal, wind and solar. She opposes regional power
planning in the Northwest by the federal govern
ment.
In Wards 1 and 8, current EWEB president
and 18-year board member John Tiffany defeated
Jon Silvermoon by a margin of about 2-1 to
remain on the board.
Tiffany was out of the country for a month
prior to the election and did not return for the
voting. Conservation and the development of new
power sources are current EWEB priorities, he
said.
Tiffany also advocated n^n-oolluting,
renewable resources.
In the most controversial of the three EWEB
races, Camilla Pratt easily outdistanced John
Stewart for the position representing Wards 2 and
3.
Pratt, a one-term EWEB member, said in her
campaign that conservation is the utility’s most
important task for the future. Like Tiffany, Pratt
said there is a need for new generation facilities —
as long as they are not coal or nuclear plants.
Pratt said she favors regional power legisla
tion, but not the sort of bill now being considered
by Congress, because it would mean federal
regulation of the region's power. She also en
dorsed renewable energy sources that can
become cost effective and “humanly managea
ble.”
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