Legislative aide lauds Fadeley
for defeating sales tax package
By Brooks Dareff
Of th* Em*rikJ
The major media have been
unfair to Senate Pres Ed
Fadeley when criticizing the
way he has handled the
House-sponsored sales tax in
itiative, says Ed Blackburn, a
1983 legislative aide for Rep.
Wally Priestley, D-Portland,
who spoke Saturday to fellow
members of the Oregon
Citizen’s Party convention in
Eugene last weekend.
House Speaker Grattan
Kerans, D-Eugene, used the
same technique — creating a
new committee — to push a
sales tax initiative through the
House as Fadeley did to kill
that initiative in the Senate,
Blackburn says.
But whereas Kerans was ap
plauded as a selfless, capable,
team-man administrator who
pushed through a lot of
legislation, Fadeley was
criticized for using his posi
tion to manipulate the Senate
action on the basis of his own
personal convictions,
Blackburn says.
Rather than lambasting
Fadeley, Blackburn thinks “we
should send Fadeley a letter of
appreciation.”
Being a capable ad
ministrator is more than
pushing through a lot of
legislation, he says. So it
would be better to enact five
or six good pieces of legisla
tion than many bad bills,
Blackburn says.
The sales tax package
would have been a bad piece
of legislation, because it was
regressive, he says.
The sales tax initiative only
got as far as it did because the
1983 session “was the most
conservative legislative ses
sion since before the Tom Mc
Call era,” Blackburn says.
This was surprising,
because five or six “supposed
ly progressive” democratic
candidates were voted in dur
ing the period of nationwide
anti-Reaganism, which has
been credited with ushering in
many Democratic candidates
during the 1982 elections, he
says.
However, some of these
democrats were regressives in
progressives’ clothing, and
they were noticeably absent in
the fight against shifting tax
burdens onto the poor, he
says.
Of the 36 democratic
legislators, only one or two did
not receive contributions from
large business groups like
U.S. Bancorp or Atlantic
Richfield during the 1982 cam
paign, he says.
“Economics” is the new
catchword uttered by a new
generation of “knee-jerk
pragmatists” who are too
young to have gone through
the labour movements of the
1930s and 1940s, or even the
civil rights and anti-war
movements of the 1960s and
1970s, Blackburn said.
Blackburn credited the
Citizen’s Party with playing an
opposing role to the sales tax
package within the House, but
said that aside from Priestley,
Sen. Margie Hendriksen, D
Eugene, is the only legislator
in a sea of “elitists” who ac
tively seeks to attach herself
to grass roots organizations
like the Citizen’s Party.
The action that preceded
and prompted Keran’s crea
tion of a special committee on
property tax relief was the
House Revenue Committee’s
vote against a sales tax. Rep.
Carl Hosticka, D-Eugene, was
the swing vote against the
sales tax in that committee,
said Blackburn, and one factor
swaying Hosticka was the
unexpected 26 percent of the
vote pulled by Citizen’s Party
candidate Laura Stine against
Hosticka in his 1982 bid for
election to the House. The
strong showing of the
Citizen’s Party indicated to
Hosticka there was a large pro
gressive element in his district
that he could not afford to
alienate, Blackburn said.
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Whereas House Speaker Grattan Kerans (shown here during a
recent speech in the EMU Forum) was applauded by the media
for pushing a sales tax package through the House, Senate Pres.
Ed Fadeley tvas roasted for defeating the controversial bill.
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