Oregon daily _ _
emerald
Wednesday, November 3, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84, Number 44
From Associated Prvss and t mar a W reports
The polls had
been closed tor
only 20 minutes
when Gov Vic
Atiyeh came
Governor’s | smiling into his
i race 1 campaign
headquarters at
the Hilton Hotel in downtown
Portland
"I've been around these things
long enough to Know it looks pretty
darned good," he told cheering
supporters
Within an hour, Atiyeh's
challenger, Democratic State Sen
Ted Kulongoski, had conceded vic
tory and said it was time to put aside
the harsh comments made during
the campaign
"There is good and bad in a race
like this," Kulongoski said "The
good is that it gives people a choice
The bad is that it does tend to
polarize the citizenry. I think it’s time
to pull the people of the state back
together to attempt to solve the
tremendous problems that we
have "
But even if Kulongoski’s attitude
was one of reconciliation, the
atmosphere at his Eugene
headquarters at the Hilton Hotel was
one of dismay and disappointment
Kelly Buntjer. coordinator of the
University's Students for Kulongoski
organization, said that while she was
surprised at the state-wide margin of
defeat, the real "gut wrencher was
Kulongoski's loss in Lane County,
his home county.
By 10 p.m. Tuesday, Atiyeh was
leading Kulongoski 32,110 votes to
29,242 in Lane County
State wide, the midnight tally was
204,634 votes for Atiyeh, 119,733 for
Kulongoski
"I'm dismayed, confused,
bewildered, Buntjer said bitterly
Kulongoski, who lost his second
state-wide campaign in two years,
was asked about his own political
future His state Senate seat expires
this year
"I never am going to make a deci
sion like that in a very rash time,” he
said, "but I think the people have
spoken very well.”
Atiyeh said his main campaign
objective was to let the people know
his administration had made some
major accomplishments in its first
four years in office
"I’m pretty quiet about all the
things that have happened,” the
governor said “It took several
months for us really to get the
message out of all the things that
really had happened in Oregon. I like
to believe they heard that and liked
it."
Kulongoski said he hopes Atiyeh
“immediately attempts to pull
together the different coalitions of
the state — labor, the environmenta
lists, human resources people,
higher education — trying to get
them together to work on the
different agendas to try to find a
fiscal foundation for the state."
Asked what he would do now,
Kulongoski said he had three priori
ties
“I’m going to go running in the
morning, then I'm going to go to
Mass, and I want to go hunting
sometime.”
State land use planning,
tax limit ballots defeated
By Phil Lemman
Of tfw EmnU
Oregon voters
expressed faith in
their state and local
governments
Tuesday, rejecting
measures elimina
ting state supervi
sion of land use
planning and imposing a 1 V2 percent
property tax limit which would have cut
local governments' revenue by one
third
Based on late figures with 62 percent
of Oregon precincts reporting, both
Ballot Measure 3, the property tax limita
tion measure, and Ballot Measure 6,
which would have abolished the state
Land Conservation and Development
Commission, were defeated by slim
margins.
Despite somewhat lower support than
was shown on pre-election polls, Ore
gon's nuclear freeze initiative passed,
with 60 percent of Oregon voters sup
Baltot
measures
porting the measure Voters in seven
other states approved similar measures,
with Arizona the only state not approving
its nuclear freeze ballot measure
Oregonians showed their independent
streak and refused to follow 48 other
states in allowing self-service gasoline,
with a 56 percent no vote More than 75
percent of Oregon voters said new con
struction should not be added on to
property tax rolls and 60 percent refused
to increase the 20-dav time limit the
governor has to veto bills after a legisla
tive session, as proposed by other ballot
measures.
A Lane County mobile home rent con
trol measure was also defeated. With 71
percent of local precincts reporting, 52
percent of area voters disapproved of the
rent limit. Ballot Measure 7 would have
rolled back mobile home space rental to
September, 1980, levels and limited
annual rent increases.
Despite the continuing recession,
Oregon voters didn't vote according to
their pocketbooks. Ballot Measure 3
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Weaver sails into office
on surprisingly easy win
By Ann Portal
and Debbie Howlett
Of the Emerald
The campaign
was a little rough but
Tuesday’s election
turned out to be
smooth sailing for
4th District
Congressman Jim
Weaver.
Democrat Weaver beat his Republican
opponent, Ross Anthony, by almost 60
percent — 54,294 votes to 36,492, with 57
percent of the precincts counted.
Weaver, 55, won in all but one of the
eight counties that fall at least partially in
his district. The only exception was
Josephine County.
The four-term incumbent, whose
congressional record formed the core of
both candidates’ campaigns, said
Tuesday night he was pleasantly sur
prised by the size of his win.
"I hoped for it, but I didn’t expect it,”
he said.
Assured of his fifth consecutive term,
Weaver was enthusiastic about serving
his 4th District constituents.
“I’m going to be more effective in this
term of Congress than I’ve ever been
before,” he said. “This will be an im
portant session and one we ll have our
hands full on.”
Anthony, a 36-year-old University
economics professor entering his first
political race, said he felt the campaign
was a good one
He said he didn't know what swayed
the voters but said that "certainly the fact
I'm challenging an eight-year incumbent
was a major factor.”
For Weaver, the election was a com
fortable victory after an uncomfortable
campaign.
In the dosing months of the compaign,
Anthony criticized Weaver for refusing to
debate. Weaver refused to debate unless
Anthony apologized for comments made
about the congressman's record.
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Jim Weaver
"I think voters were able to see
through the negative campaign,”
Weaver said.
But Anthony said he felt some of his
ideas didn’t get an adequate forum
because Weaver wouldn’t agree to a
debate
Weaver, who has been outspoken in
his support of environmental issues and
opposition to nuclear weapons, said he
thought those issues helped make the
difference
His involvement in the Washington
Public Power Supply System lawsuits
also may have attracted some votes. "I
would have to guess that it had its effect
— but you just never know,” Weaver said
Undaunted by defeat, Anthony said
he'll decide "after the first of the year”
whether he will seek office again
“Certainly I’d have a tremendous leg
up,” he said.
Meanwhile, the assistant professor
said he’ll soon resume his former posi
tion.
"I'm going back to teaching, and I’ll
probably be a better teacher,” he said.