STATE TREASURER
Party controversy comes early, stays late
Normally a sideshow, this
year’s treasurer’s race has
gone Hollywood high-wire.
On the Democratic side,
there’s House Speaker Grat
tan Kerans running unoppos
ed. No contest there.
But three Republicans —
McMinnville Rep. Bill Ruther
ford, former New Mexico Gov.
David Cargo, and Beaverton
Finance Manager David Chen
— are battling it out for the
support of their party. And
what a battle it’s been.
Certainly from a local angle,
it started out looking in
teresting. Late-winter specula
tions had Kerans, from
Eugene, taking on one of the
three Republican candidates
who had already jumped into
the fray.
Then came March, the
month that comes in like a
lion. All in one week, lame
duck Treasurer Clay Myers
resigned eight months before
his term was up, Kerans an
nounced his candidacy, and —
enter controversy — Gov. Vic
Atiyeh appointed Rutherford
to complete Myers’ term.
Critics around the state,
Cargo among the most vocal,
questioned the propriety of ap
pointing a candidate for an of
fice to that office.
“Let the people of Oregon
decide,” Chen said at a can
didates fair held at the Univer
sity last week, adding ‘‘the
Republican Party should be a
party of opportunity.”
Suddenly Republicans,
known more for displaying
their solidarity than airing
their dirty linen, were fighting.
And suddenly people were tak
ing notice.
Raised by Cargo, the con
troversy continued, this time
over Muxnenora s campaign
slogan, ‘‘one of our
own. . .one of our best.” Both
Chen, born in China, and
Cargo have said the slogan
has overt racist implications,
and have asked Rutherford to
change or alter it.
‘‘He says that’s not what he
meant — but it could be con
strued that way. And language
should be precise,” Chen said.
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SUPREME COURT JUDGE
Race Is anything but dull
Oregon Supreme Court races tend to be
dignified and dull, but the three-way race for
Position One has been the subject of controver
sies that many feel will hurt the credibility of
the court.
Incumbent Supreme Court Justice Hans
Linde is being challenged by David Nissman,
Lane County assistant district attorney and ad
junct professor at the University’s law school,
and Albin Norblad, a circuit court judge in
Marion County.
Both Linde and Norblad are campaigning
on their experience. Linde, a former University
law professor for 18 years, has served on the
high court since 1977, and Norblad has 16 years
experience as a trial court judge on both the
state and municipal level.
But Nissman, who has never served as
judge, has attacked Linde’s performance on the
court, calling him a “part-time judge” and ac
cusing him of being more concerned with
criminals than with their victims.
In a recent letter to the Register-Guard, 16
law school professors attacked Nissman’s
charges as “irresponsibly misleading” and en
dorsed Linde as the most capable for the
position.
Nissman stated that Linde only writes
about 11 opinions a year, but Linde says he has
written 178 opinions for the court in seven
years, an average of 24 opinions a year.
A change in the duties of the Supreme
Court may account for the drop in the number
of Linde’s opinions. The court now has jurisdic
tion over fewer cases and they tend to be com
plex and take more time, says Law Prof. James
O’Fallon.
Though he disapproves of Nissman’s tac
tics, Norblad says he agrees with some of the
charges Nissman has leveled against Linde.
“Linde doesn’t carry his full load. He’s
slow, and his opinions are not clear,” Norblad
says.
But court opinions “don’t need to read like
novels" in order to be useful to lawyers and
judges, O’Fallon says.
While the controversy rages around Linde
and Nissman, Norblad’s campaign is being all
but ignored.
Norblad emphasizes that he is the only
candidate with experience as a trial judge. His
work as a juvenile court judge has had a signifi
cant effect in lowering juvenile crime in Marion
County, he says.
By Paul Ertelt
SECRETARY OF STATE
It's names versus numbers
One’s got the name, the
other’s got the contributions
and the organization.
The name is Roberts, as in
Barbara, a two-term represen
tative from Portland and the
House Majority leader.
Roberts, 47, is running for the
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Democratic nomination for
Secretary of State, and got the
name from her husband Frank,
a state senator from
Multnomah County. His first
wife, Betty, lost races for
governor and the U.S. Senate,
and won one for the state
Supreme Court. His daughter
Mary is a two-term state labor
commissioner.
The other major Democratic
candidate is Portland Sen. Jim
Gardner, 37, who trails
Roberts in his own most re
cent poll, 40 to 28 percent —
with 18 percent undecided.
Gardner has outspent every
other candidate for state of
fice, in the process picking up
contributions from everwhere.
Gardner has raised $144,084
to Roberts’ $77,643.
Roberts, meanwhile,
believes her business ex
perience — 15 years — makes
her more qualified for the job.
Gardner counters that his
committee assignments are
more relevant to the job than
Roberts’.
Gardner and Roberts
disagree on vote-by-mail and
last day registration. Gardner,
who says he supports expan
ding the electorate, supports
both. Roberts opposes both.
“I’m opposed to vote-by
mail,” she says. “My concern
is secrecy, the privacy factor.”
By Brooks Darreff
Monday, May 14, 1984