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Laurie Luckie, a second-year psychology major from Virginia, applies a new park
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Photo by Jett Paslay
Governor confident after tax tour
PORTLAND (AI’J — Gov.
Barbara Roberts says she fools
bettor about hot tax campaign
now that she has spoken to
thousands of Oregonians about
it.
"I want you to know (hero is
a certain anxiety that comes
with trying something this hig
and this now,” Roberts told
about 2,000 people in the Port
land Convention Center Sun
day "But the anxiety sure is
less now than it was before."
Thu Portland meeting was
the fifth in a six-stop tour of the
stall! to initiate the governor's
tax overhaul strategy. The tour
ended with a Sunday afternoon
meeting in Eugene
She wants to get thousands of
citizens involved in the issue in
hopes the public i an find an
answer to Oregon lax problems
VOter-approved Measure 5 cuts
property taxes and will drasti
cally reduce the amount of
money available to govern
inent However, voters have re
poatedly rejected a sales tax In
the state
About 700 people showed up
in Pendleton at the kick oft
meeting Thursday The crowd
dipped to about dOO in Bend on
Friday, then increased to T>()0 in
Medford and 000 in Salem on
Saturday More than 000 at
tended the Luge no session.
I want to thank you for he
Moving in Oregon," Roberts
said in Portland "We're going
to make this work
The regional meetings are ex
pot led to produce at least 1,500
volunteers who will interview
75.000 voters, asking them
what serve i s they want gov
ernment to provide and what
kind of taxes they want to pay
lor tile services Most ol tile
sampling about 70,000
will lx- randomly sale*:loci from
voter registration lists
At ooi'li ol tlii' national nn'i't
ings. voters have come to sup
port as well as crilli i/e Roberts'
strategy Many sav the eltei ts ol
Measure 5, with its t ,ip on
property taxes, make a new re
placement t.ix inevitable Many
others want no part ol more
taxes and call for cuts in gov
eminent spending instead
Mary Ann Dunn, a Portland
resident finds herself in the
middle of tlie dilemma Until
Me.isim •>. ever increasing
property taxes squeezed her in
come Now th.it the property
tax lino! IS in place, she wor
ries about adequate funding for
local governments and tor
schools.
"As a retiree, I want to fie
able to stay in my home," she
sail) "As a grandmother, I want
g o o d s i h o o I s for in y
grand kids
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