Student lobbyists trained
STUDENT LOBBYISTS
should "lay low and wait-in
ambush" for Oregon legislators
at the special legislative ses
sion, said John Moore, ASUO
executive coordinator, at a
student lobbyist training ses
sion Thursday
Students will be used mainly
to gather information from
revenue committees and lobby
individual legislators when they
adopt budget and revenue po
sitions, he said
Moore and four other
speakers addressed a gathering
of nearly 20 people on the cur
rent situation of legislators and
what responsibilities volunteer
student lobbyists will face
The goals of student lobbyists
are to reduce the 10 percent cut
to higher education proposed
by Gov Vic Atiyeh to five per
cent and to minimize the impact
of any cut, said Bob Watrus,
Oregon Student Lobby execu
tive director.
The OSL has been "tinkering
with cuts” in the Ways and
Means Committee since the
committees have been meeting
the past two weeks in prepara
tion for the special session, he
said
The special session will be a
guerrilla struggle," according
to Moore, who said student lob
byists will be expected to lobby
at least one day per week during
the session, which is expected
to last two to three weeks
Most student lobbyists will be
at the session only one day per
week This may create a "lack of
continuity of information," he
said
To counter this the lobbyists
will meet with ASUO Legislative
Coordinator David Berns, who
will update them on the
personalities and issues of the
day, said Moore
An effective persuasion
device is personal horror stories
because they have impact,
especially in the form of bundles
of letters, Watrus said
"On the whole, if a mass of
letters can be garnered, a good
deal of attention has to be paid
to that,” he said.
But several students at the
meeting said the lobbyists
needed to be "armed” with
facts, otherwise they feared
their arguments could be dis
mantled by the legislators.
Moore assured students they
don't need to be "armed" with
facts to keep their cases from
being dismantled by legislators
since the special session will be
a first-time experience for many
"To learn a legislature, you
need to sit down over coffee
with dozens and hundreds of
people over a decade," he said.
"You're being exposed to the
great roadshow in the state of
Oregon ”
Two other arguments sug
gested for the potential lob
byists were presented by Curt
Simic, University vice-president
for public services
Student lobbyists should em
phasize to legislators that
students should not be priced
out of an education, he said.
Governor ‘gutless,’
says representative
THERE IS AM easy option to
saving education and human
services from massive budget
cuts, according to Rep Grattan
Kerans, D-Eugene
The state budget problems
could be reduced if Gov. Vic
Atiyeh would cut into the
property tax relief fund, he says
So why hasn't Atiyeh cut into
the fund?
' Because he hasn't got any
guts," Kerans says "He doesn 't
want to offend the taxpayers on
an election year He's going to
do something very dangerous to
the future of this state "
Denny Miles, Atiyeh's press
secretary, disagrees
"The govenor stated a long
time ago that it was wrong to cut
the program so soon after the
voters approved it,” Miles says
"The governor says we should
be doing this (balancing the
budget) without any other tax
increases
"Times are really rough," he
adds "It's the wrong time to be
asking people for more money.”
Kerans says he would support
a raise in taxes rather than cuts
in education.
"He (Atiyeh) astounds me,”
Kerans says "These are areas
of the budget he said would be
morally wrong to cut a year ago.
"The only difference is that
last year wasn't an election
year, and this one is."
There is no option to cutting
the budget, Miles says
"If you were to cut all of the
National Resource agencies,
you would still come up with
only 1.5 percent of the general
fund," he says.
'The money has to come out
of the main part of the fund,
which is education," Miles says
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