Debate features initiatives
By Thomas Henderson
Of the Kmerald
Ballot measures took center
stage Wednesday night when
Attorney General Dave
Frohnmayer and his Democratic
challenger Vern Cook debated
in the EMU Dad’s Room.
Cook attacked Frohnmayer's
handling of ballot measure
titles, charging that the attorney
general’s mishandling of his of
ficial responsibilities has
resulted in unclear wording of
the ballot measures.
“In one case, the sales tax
ballot title, if you voted ‘yes’
you thought you were voting
‘no,’ ’’ Cook said.
Dave Frohnmayer
Adding that reviewing ballot
titles should be a primary duty
of the attorney general's office,
Cook charged that ”23 out of 28
challenges to Mr. Frohnmayer’s
ballot titles have been found to
be unfair, misleading and insuf
ficent” by the Oregon Supreme
Court.
“Challenging ballot titles is
the oldest political game in the
book,” Frohmayer said. Addi
tionally, he said, anyone who
thinks reviewing ballot titles
should be a primary duty of the
attorney general should in
troduce legislation to abolish
the office.
According to Frohnmayer,
most people decide how they
will vote on ballot measures
before they go to the polls. “I
trust the voters more than my
opponent,” he said.
The candidates also collided
on their views regarding Ballot
Measure 8, the ‘‘victims’
rights” initiative, which revises
numerous criminal laws concer
ning police powers, trials,
evidence and sentencing.
Frohnmayer said he supports
the measure as a means of
balancing the inequities of the
judicial system. “Virtually
everything in that measure has
been before the Legislature
before in oiie form or another”
but has been defeated by
‘‘strategically placed’’
legislators, he said.
“I’m not really suprised Dave
F'rohnmayer supports the
Caldicott speaking tonight
. Nuclear activist Dr. Helen
Caldicott will discuss the
nuclear arms race and her
recommendations for stopping
it in the EMU Ballroom tonigh*
at 8.
Caldicott, a native oi
Melbourne, Australia, was in
fluenced as a teenager by Nevil
Shute’s “On the Beach,” a
novel about the effects of
nuclear war. But it wasn’t until
after the birth of her first child
that Caldicott's concern became
her cause.
“At that moment 1 accepted
personal responsibility for stop
ping the nuclear arms race,”
she says.
In 1971, Caldicott began pro
testing French atmospheric
testing of nuclear weapons in
the Pacific Ocean. I.ater, the
movement spread throughout
Australia arid New Zealand,
and the French halted the tests
in 1972.
In 1978. Caidicott published
her first book “Nuclear
Madness: What You Can Do!”
She is a past president of Physi
cians for Social Responsibility
and founder of Women’s Action
for Nuclear Disarmament.
“The 1984 elections are a
political crossroads that may
determine our survival as a
planet,” Caidicott says. “We
have to use this opportunity to
elect a president and a congress
who are committed to
multilateral nuclear disarma
ment as their top priority.”
Caldicott’s discussion, which
is part of the ASUO-sponsored
political symposium, is free and
open to the public.
Vem Cook
measure,” Cook said, "because
he has such little regard for the
Oregon Constitution.”
Cook said he opposes the
measure since several of its pro
visions would likely be judged
unconstitutional by the state
Supreme Court, particularly a
provision allowing victims to
participate in criminal
sentencing.
Such a provision, he said,
would promote vindictiveness
instead of fehabiiitation.
Both candidates oppose
Measure 2, the property tax
limitation. Although
Frohnmayer said he
understands concerns over pro
perty taxes, he said “it makes
no sense to shoot at the
Legislature through our heads.”
Cook said he opposes the
measure, but he charged that
Frohnmayer’s office did a
"miserably poor” job in prepar
ing the ballot title.
Both candidates also express
ed opposition to Measures 6 and
7, which would reinstate the
death penalty.
Cook said he objects to capital
punishment not on moral
grounds but because it is not an
effective deterrent to crime.
However, he added, “I’d rather
have nine guiity men on life
sentences than execute one in
nocent one.”
Frohnmayer voiced similar
objections to the measures, say
ing “if mistakes are made in the
adjudication of capital punish
ment, it is irrevocable.”
Nonetheless, both said they
would enforce capital punish
ment as attorney general if the
' measure passes.
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Political symposium schedule
The 1 ‘>84 ASt JO political symposium con
cludes today with a discussion on nuclear
arms by Dr. Melon Caldioott at a p.m. in the
KMU Ballroom.
Today's schedule also includes a discus
sion on peace negotiations in Central America
by F elix kurv. who directs the San Francisco
office of the coalition currently engaged in
discussions with FI Salvadoran Pres.
Napoleon Duarte.
Today’s symposium schedule is.
• 12:30 p.m. — Congressman Jim Weaver,
Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress, 4th
District.
•2:30 p.m. — Eugene Council for Human
Rights in 1-atln America presentation; Felix
kurv. U.S. representative for El Salvador’s
Democratic Revolutionary Front.
•7 p.m. — Margie Hendriksen,
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
•8 p.m. — Dr. Helen Caidfcott, Physi
cians tnr Social Responsibility.
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