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By Hank Trotter
Sen. George Wingard will
face his first Democratic
challenger in eight years as
Rep Margie Hendriksen
attempts to jump from House
District 40 to Senate District 20
in the Nov. 2 election
Wingard, a 14-year veteran of
the Legislature, ran unopposed
in the 1978 election, is pitted
against an opponent who is
more alike in political values
than not.
Hendriksen and Wingard
pride themselves on their envi
Hendriksen has a 100 percent
voting record given her by sup
porting groups.
ronmental voting records They
both profess to be supporters of
higher education and believe
the University is a fundamental
part of Lane County 's economy
But, like the poles of two
magnets, Wingard and
Hendriksen are repelled more
often than attracted to the same
ideals
As a Republican, Wingard has
often voted in conjuction with
the Democratic camp In the
House Hendriksen has proven
herself a liberal supporter of
environmental concerns and
human needs while addressing
the current fiscal dilemma with a
comprehensive tax plan that
was later adopted by the state s
Democratic Platform Com
mittee
However, Wingard strongly
advocates bipartisan efforts to
bring new revenue to the state
and has attacked Hendriksen as
a "partisan zealot "
Hendriksen defends herself
as a Democrat in a "partisan
process" in Salem She has
made a campaign of attacking
Wmgard's attendance on im
portant votes as well as his vo
ting record which she says at
times favors nuclear power and
opposses environmental
concerns Wingard counters
that he has never been absent
from a legislative session with
out excuse and that
Hendriksen's voting on tax and
revenue issues is inconsistent
Hendriksen was elected to
House District 40 in 1980 after
beginning her political career in
1971 as a citizen lobbyist She
has also been a Democratic
precinct committeewoman, was
appointed to the Oregon Advi
sory Committee to the United
States Commission on Civil
Rights and was a founding
member of the Oregon
Women s Political Caucus.
Wingard like Hendriksen
began his legislative tenure as a
representative serving in the
Oregon house for two years un
til 1970 when he was elected to
his senate seat Wingard also
served on the Eugene City
Council for four years and is
now a builder holding much
rental property in the University
area
Oregon must decrease its
dependence on 'elastic" in
come taxes Wingard says In
addition to income and property
taxes Wingard says Oregon
needs another source of
revenue supplying the state
coffers (He has publicly stated
that he is opposed to a state
sales tax though he may con
sider a luxury tax.) This can only
be accomplished he says, when
Republicans and Democrats
work together on a bipartisan
tax plan that can meet the
approval of the voters
It's very nice to talk about
bipartisanship but it's just not a
reality, Hendriksen says
During the last special
session of the Legislature
Hendriksen introduced a plan to
remove middle- and lower-in
come taxpayers from high in
come brackets into which infla
tion has pushed them while
Wingard's rating from sup
porters is 95 percent
recapturing $130 million of the
$200 million in federal subsidies
cut by the Reagan administra
tion Hendriksen says this bill
would lower income taxes for 67
percent of Oregon's taxpayers
while generating new revenues
for the continuation of needed
state services
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