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Wasco clerk rejects new voters
THE DALLES (AP) — Of
ficials announced Wednesday
that all new voter registration
applications will be rejected in
Wasco County, where a voting
war is building between
disciples of Indian guru
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and a
group of Oregonians who plan
to move to the county
temporarily.
“Because I have reason to
believe there are organized ef
forts to fraudulently register
people to vote in the November
general election, I have decided
to impose a blanket rejection,”
County Clerk Sue Proffitt told a
group of “street people” from
Rajneeshpuram who had come
to the courthouse to register.
The rejections, effective from
Wednesday until Nov. 6,
automatically will trigger ap
peals, and each applicant
would be notified of the time
and location of his hearing, she
added.
Proffitt said she made the
move in response to statements
by both Rajneeshees and an
Albany-based anti-Rajneesh
group that has planned to move
to the county temporarily in an
effort to prevent the Ra
jneeshees from “taking over”
the county in the general
election.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State
Norma Paulus announced that
she will detail the state’s plans
to handle the Rajneesh con
troversy at a news conference
Friday in Salem.
Paulus also said that atten
dance at the news conference
will be often to everyone except
Ma Anand Sheela, the fiery Ra
jneeshee who’s the personal
secretary to the guru.
“I have a contract with the
people of this state, but that
contract does not contain a
clause requiring me to subject
myself to shouting, screaming
or vile, obscene epithets,” Mrs.
Paulus said. "For that reason,
Sheela is not invited or
welcome.”
joann Boies of Albany, a
spokeswoman for the anti
Rajneesh group, said Proffitt’s
voter registration cutoff plan
might help ensure that the Ra
jneeshees won’t unfairly sway
the election.
“I think that’s one fair way of
seeing that the vote is doing
what it should do,” she said.
“We’re hoping we don’t have to
go at all” to vote in Wasco
County.
“This is exactly the kind of
thing that is going to start a
riot,” Rajneeshee spokeswoman
Ma Prem Isabel said of the new
policy. She attributed the action
to bigotry.
“It’s very un-American and
very unpatriotic. It’s a putdown
for all these people. I’d like to
say that I think this is an insult
to every American,” said Ma
Deva Jayamala, who accom
panied the street people to The
Dalles.
The street people met with
reporters and sang “God Bless
America” before leaving.
“They said the next time they
came back they would have
3,000” people, said Karen
LeBreton, chief deputy county
clerk.
Ma Prem Isabel said some of
the street people insisted on
registering to vote in The Dalles
rattier man in tne kb
jneeshpuram precinct after see
ing televised reports of the furor
their presence has provoked.
About 2,300 street people re
main in the sect’s central
Oregon commune-city of Ra
jneeshpuram, where 3,000 were
brought from around the coun
try under the Share-A-Home
program.
Rajneeshees have denied the
program was designed to in
crease their voting power, but
announced this week that two
unnamed disciples would be
write-in candidates for county
commissioner. The sheriff’s and
district attorney’s positions also
are on the Nov. 6 ballot.
“What has gone on this morn
ing in contesting this registra
tions was not just aimed at Ra
jneesh. It was just to keep the
votings here in Wasco County
clean," said County Judge Bill
Hulse. “...The ones that are
legal voters will be able to vote;
the ones that are not shouldn’t
be registering anyway.’’
Deputy Secretary of State
Greg McMurdo said the
secretary of state’s office had
advised Proffitt to take the
action.
“What we told her is that if .
she believes that persons were
attempting to register who were
not qualified, that she under
state law has authority to reject
registrations." McMurdo said. -
To be eligible to vote in
Oregon, people must be
residents of the state for at least
20 days before the election, be
residents of the county in which
they plan to vote, be U.S.
citizens and be over 18, fye said.
Homeless find no nest at Rajneeshpuram
PORTLAND (AP) — An ad
vocate for Portland’s homeless
says up to 100 homeless people
have been stranded in the city
by followers of Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh in recent weeks.
Michael Stoops, chairman of
the Burnside Community Coun
cil, said he and Portland City
Council candidate William Mc
Cormick are proposing an
emergency travel fund to help
the people return to the cities
from which they came.
The Rajneeshees say some
2,300 or more street people
from across the country are now
visiting Rajneeshpuram, the
religious sect’s city-commune
in central Oregon. Originally,
the Rajneeshees offered to pay
to bus the visitors to any U.S. ci
ty if they chose to leave Ra
jneeshpuram, but that offer has
not been made for people who
have arrived since Sept. 23.
Stoops estimated that it
would cost $125 per person to
send the homeless people back
to the cities they came from.
On Tuesday, about eight
street people who were
recruited to live at Ra
jneeshpuram picketed a
downtown Portland hotel own
ed by the Rajneeshees, saying
the group went back on its pro
mise to provide them return bus
tickets.
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Stoops, an advocate of rights
for the homeless, said Tuesday
that a benefit ball will be held
Oct. 21 to raise money for the
travel fund. He said he also is
seeking city, county, and state
funds for the project.
Stoops said he has talked to
about 50 of the people who have
left Rajneeshpuram.
“Even the dumping of 35
people in a city the size- of
Portland causes major problems
because there is not enough
emergency shelter in the city,”
Stoops said. “What is 1,000
were dumped out. That would
be a disaster."
He said he is considering
legal action against the Ra
jneeshees to regain the money
used to send the people back
home. Those stranded often are
“dumped” in the middle of the
night in various locations, he
said.
“It’s a planned way to get rid
of them,” Stoops said.
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