ELECTION 92
Measure
limits time
in office
GRANTS PASS (AP) —
With voter anger at their
elected official* flooding the
nation, no one dare* to
mount a campaign against
Measure 3, which would
limit the number of time*
Oregonians could be elected
to slate and congressional of
fice.
Even the Oregon AFL-C'IO,
which filed the only argu
ment against term limits in
the Oregon Voters' Pam
phlet, won't shovel its time
and money against the tide.
"The polls are showing
it's going to pass 3-1," said
Steve Lanning, political edu
cation coordinator for the la
bor organization. "People
are just staying away from
it.”
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by Gresham athletic club
owner Frank Eisenzimmer,
one of the authors of the
Measure S property tax limit
that rode a wave of taxpayor
anger to passage in 1990.
With 14 other states con
sidering ternt limits Nov. 3,
its part of a national
upwolling of feeling that
politicians are moro interest
ed in getting elected than
solving the state's and the
nation's problems, said
Eisenzimmer.
Challengers can't be ex
pected to defeat incumbents
one by one. Eisenzimmer
said. The incumbents hold
too many advantages: namo
recognition, free mailing,
travel and TV time; piles of
special interest money, and
pork barrel largesse
"Half those people in the
state Legislature, that's their
only Job," Eisenzimmer said.
"We need people from all
walks of life to serve in Con
gress. They uro concerned
with solutions, not getting
elected. Term limits is going
to do that."
Measure 3 would amend
the Oregon Constitution to
restrict service in the Oregon
House to six years and the
Oregon Senate to eight
years, with a total of 12
years in both chambers.
Statewide offices would be
limited to eight yoars. Ser
vice would stop after six
years in the U.S. House and
12 years in the U.S. Senate.
Oregon voters got a look at
term limiu last year when a
measure surfaced in Wash
ington.
Oregon's version offers ■
major difference: it isn't ret*
reactive, so the clout the
state would lose by forcing
out veteran Sens. Mark Hat
field and Bob Packwood
wouldn't go immediately.
Robert Johnstone, a pro
fessor of politics at Earlham
College in Richmond, Ind.,
la surprised term limits has
gained such popularity.
“Efforts to restore compe
tition for congressional seats
seems to me a good idea,"
he said. “Term limitations
seems to me a bad method of
doing that. It's a quick-fix
approach that, while it stim
ulates competition, it creates
other problems."
Panel selection process
irks news organizations
NEW YORK (AP) — Somo
major now* organization*. NIK!
and CBS among thorn, am re
fusing to allow thoir employees
to participate! a* panelists or
moderators in the presidential
debates because the campaigns
have a role In their selection.
The latest debate over the de
bates comes during a year of
unusual rancor botwoon tho
news media and at least two
presidential campaigns — those
of President Bush and Ross
Perot.
The two notworks. along
with the Associotod Press and
somo other organizations, said
they don't believe it is appro
priate for the campaigns to dic
tate who is — or is not — al
lowed to ask questions of the
cand idates.
"Uehate moderators and pan
elists should l)o choson by In
dependent groups, not political
patties," NBC President Mi
chael Gartner said
At The Wall Street Journal.
which has a similar policy
against participating in tho de
bates. Washington bureau chief
A! Hunt said ono Journal re
porter was asked to be on a de
bate panul and said no.
Still. Bob Neuman, a spokes
man for tho bipartisan Commis
sion on Presidential Debates,
said there was no lack of jour
nalists willing to participate.
About IS news organizations
havo volunteered to take part in
the debates, which begin Sun
day, and still others might bo
willing.
“To turn them down would
be to low an opportunity to ask
a politician a question you
think is important." ABC an
chor Peter Jennings told the
New York Time*.
ABC has said it would decide
whether to participate only af
ter it is Invited CNN ha* sjid
much the same thing
"CNN would like the oppor
tunity to question the candi
dates In this forum," spokes
man Sven Haarhoff said But he
also said that CNN wants its
principal anchor. Bernard
Shaw, to bo chosen ami hasn't
decided whether it will accept
an invitation to someone else
The New York Times, while
harboring concerns about the
process, is ulso WTiting to rule
on the process until it is invited
to participate, according to Al
lan M. Siogal, an assistant man
aging editor. "There is no point
in our taking a position whilu it
is theoretical.” ho said.
The selection process,
worked out by the campaigns
of President Bush and Demo
cratic nominee Bill Clinton in
conjunction with the bipartisan
commission, makes the presi
dential nominating process
look simple.
h.ssontially. it bolls down to
this: Two of the three panelists
at the debate Sunday will havo
come from lists that wore
drawn up by the two cam
paigns. The final choice will be
up to the bipartisan commis
sion A similar procedure will
tie used to choose a moderator.
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