regional
Rajneesh foes
sustain efforts
(AP) — Foes of Indian guru
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh are
proceeding with plans for last
minute voter registrations in
Wasco County despite warnings
from state officials that such
registrations are illegal, an
organizer said Monday.
Meanwhile, Democratic con
gressional candidate Larryann
Willis of Vale filed a complaint
Monday with the Federal Elec
tion Commission alleging the
Rajneeshees are violating
federal election law by packing
homeless people into
Rajneeshpuram.
Joanne Boies of Albany, a
leader of a loosely knit group of
Rajneesh opponents, said her
group wants several thousand
people from around Oregon to
register to vote to keep the
Rajneeshees from “taking over
the county” in the November
elections.
The 1,700 residents of Raj
neeshpuram traditionally have
voted as a bloc, and the addition
of about 2.000 homeless people
to the Central Oregon city
commune in recent weeks is ex
pected to add to the sect’s
voting clout.
Organizers plan to live near
The Dalles for a few days so
they can register to vote against
the Rajneeshees. State officials
have warned that the plan is
illegal.
Greg McMurdo. deputy
secretary of state, said Monday
that an Oregon resident may
vote only in the county in
which the resident actually
resides and pays taxes.
Violating state election law
could result in a five-year
prison term and a $2,500 fine,
he said.
He said any effort by anti
Rajneeshees would merely give
the sect a chance to challenge
unfavorable election results
afterward.
Boies, however, said
McMurdo’s argument “doesn't
hold water." She said op
ponents have as much right to
vote in Wasco County as the
homeless people being bused
there by the Rajneeshees.
Boies said representatives of
the Oregon secretary of state
and attorney general were ex
pected to attend a Monday night
meeting of the opoonents in
Brownsville, southeast of
Albany.
In her complaint to the
Federal Election Commission.
Willis said Rajneesh corpora
tions violated law by making
corporate expenditures to
relocate the homeless people in
an attempt to influence the out
come of a federal election — her
congressional race against in
cumbent Republican Bob Smith
of Bums.
"This may be the single
largest independent election ex
penditure (over $250,000) in
Oregon history, Willis said in a
prepared statement."
Steve Sprague. Smith’s press
aide in Washington. D.C., said
Willis' action does not imply
the Rajneeshees are supporting
Smith.
Sprague said that Smith "has
never solicited, never asked for,
and has never been promised
any help’’ from the
Rajneeshees.
Sprague said Smith "certain
ly doesn’t condone any viola
tion of election laws" but he
labeled Willis’ action a political
move to "paint herself as an
enemy of the Rajneeshees
because she expects it will win
votes for her.”
Smith defeated Willis by
more than 31,000 votes in the
1982 congressional race in the
2nd District.
State Rep. Donna Zajonc,
Republican candidate for
secretary of state, urged Wasco
County residents to take advan
tage of a provision of Oregon
election laws that would enable
them to challenge the votes of
the homeless.
“All that needs to be done is
for an individual voter to write a
challenge next to the new
voter’s name in the poll books
and indicate that the challenge
is based on the person’s
residency,” Zajonc said in a
statement.
Oregon solons
laud timber bill
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Oregon congressional delegates
reacted with predictable joy
Monday after the House passed
a bill aimed at providing relief
to Pacific Northwest companies
saddled with high-priced
federal timber.
Sen. Mark Hatfield. R-Ore.
and the main sponsor of the bill,
said the bill doesn't solve all of
the wood products industry’s
problems “but is a vital step
towards preventing its
collapse.’’
The biggest question remain
ing is whether President Reagan
will sign the bill.
The administration has op
posed the bill, calling it a
federal bailout.
Another Oregon Republican,
Rep. Bob Smith, called the bill
“one of the few bright spots in
an otherwise lackluster 98th
Congress.”
“This bill is the instrument
that can save the American
timber industry burdened with
as much as an estimated $4
million in projected contract
losses,” Smith said.
The bill provides a method
that allows companies to buy
their way out of contracts pur
chased several years ago at ex
tremely high bids when experts
had predicted continued
growth in the homebuilding in
dustry. Instead, the industry
collapsed due to skyrocketing
interest rates and the market for
wood products dropped
drastically.
Officials at some of the af
fected companies have said they
will go out of business if they
are forced to harvest the timber.
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