Oregonians reject money measures
SALEM (AP) — Oregon voters hod little use for
money issues in Tuesday's election as they
trounced n measure on urban renewal prop* ts and
rejected most school bond proposals
With Of) percent of the votes tallied, the vote
margin was 73 percent to 27 percent against Mea
sure I. which was aimed at making more money
available for urban renewal projects
Voters approved only three of 16 local school
tnonev measures on the ballot.
The urban renewal measure, put on the ballot by
the Legislature, was the nation's first statewide
vote-by-mail election. Measure t would have
allowed local voters to exempt taxes for urban
renewal projects from the statewide property tax
Hmit passed in 1990.
The opposition to the measure was led by Gre
sham businessman Don Mclnlire. who was one of
the chief architects of the properly tax limit
"The liest lesson we can draw from this is how
out of touch the l-egislnture is with the electorate."
Mclntire said Tuesday night. "The Legislature
approved this measure 9-to-l and the electorate
turned it down 3-to-l.”
Hu said lawmakers should heed that message
from the voters and si rup efforts to put a sales tax
on the ballot.
"A sales tax will go down by the same margin,"
Mclntire said "Those people absolutely don't get
it There is no question the sales tax will suffer the
same fate.”
Pat McCormick, a Portland public relations con
sultant who managed the campaign for Measure t.
said it was a difficult issue to sell to voters.
"We had the challenge of trying to communicate
a very complicated issue," he said. "The other side
had only to cast doubt and create confusion."
McCormii k said survey* indicated the measure
would lose but that the margin of defeat it took
"was our worst caw.”
Mcintire said the urban renewal proposal w as an
assault on the property to* limit that would only
load to rising property taxes.
McCormick said that claim was misleading
because Measure 1 would not have increased any
one's taxes but only allowed local voters to exempt
renewal projects from Measure 5.
Lawmakers referred the proposed constitutional
amendment to the voters bin: a use the Oregon
Supreme Court last year ruled that levies for urban
renewal are covered by the Measure 5 ta* limit.
McCormick anti Mcintire agreed on one thing,
that voters are not in the mood to alter Measure 5.
•*l think that's very much the message.'
McCormick said, "They aren't ready to change
Measure 5.”
"This should be a warning signal to everyone
about talking about amending the constitution
with little public dialogue." Mcintire said
On school measures, Ashland voters turned
down on attempt to use a city ta* levy to gel
around a property tax limit on schools
Ashland schools face o $2.4 million shortfall in
the coming si hool year liei a use of the Measure 5
ta* limit Offu mis hoped to ease the crunch by
diverting financing of some programs to a city
levy.
Other defeats included the largest money mea
sure on the ballot, a $28 8 million bond issue for
school construction and repair in the Bethel
School District in the Eugene area
One of the few bond issues to win was a $‘> 8
million measure narrowly approved to expand
Molalla High School.
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in lain funs.
Her first petition came after the
disc repancy was revealed in the
Emerald during the ASUO l.xt« -
utive campaign last spring.
Collins Fuente said she
tadievod the revelation was polit
icallv motivated and that it was
"too had" the incident had to lie
dealt with in the media.
"I wish that the party that
brought this out would have
talked to me," she said. "There
were so many issues to l>e dealt
with (in the campaign) that I
wanted to concentrate on on oth
er things."
Collins Puente said she does
not believe her opponents in the
election, the Warren/Johnson
campaign, hod anything to do
with the information tie mg given
to the Emerald
"1 have some ideas.” as to who
did it. she said, “hut it was not
Warren/Johnson "
Thu sexual assault that bagan
this ini ident for Collins Puente
was never brought to trial, she
said Collins Puente said injuries
she rw eived to her head during
the assault caused her to lose con
sciousness during nun h of the
assault, and she blot ked-out oth
er parts of it.
She was advised that going
through a legal process would he
difficult and most likely unfruit
ful because of her he k of mem
ory.
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jng only that Burtwra Bush, among others, already
has a rose named after her.
The AP was informed of its mistake and substi
tuted a corrected version
"A mistake was made and it was brought to our
attention.” said Kit k Green of the AP Portland
Bureau. "A correction was sent out "
However not Itefore the original story , which was
sent out to thousands of newspapers across the
country on the AP s national directory. created some
confusion
Some people i ailed wanting to order the Bar
bara Bush rose. McCafie said
A |ai kson and Perkins employee said the i om
pony had the opposite problem — customers who
hail purchased the Barbara Hush i ailed to ask it
they bought the wrong rose
1'he University had the rose i routed as a fundrais
ing mechanism
Approximately fi.oiH) bushes will go for sale at
$14.(15 each or $12 95 ear h for five hushes or more,
shipping included All proceeds will benefit the
University
If we sell all fi.000 roses, we stand to make a
considerable amount of money.” Mi Uabe said
The limited-edition rose can lie ordered through
the University Buyers will receive the rose bush
es from |a< kson & Perkins at planting time next
spring For more information, cull 14fi-6<)0<)
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! ent to 4* percent; losephme
County, RO percent to 40 per
cent; Douglas County. 73 per
i.ent to 27 percent; Linn
County. 69 percent to .’tl [>er
i ent, mu! Klamath County. 64
percent to 36 percent
The measures prohibit
cities and counties from pass
ing laws to protect gay men
and lesbians from discrimi
nation They also prohibit
local governments from
spending money to '‘pro
mote'’ homosexuality
(ins rights advtM ates said
the local measures would
open the floodgates for dis
i riminntion against homo
sexuals in such areas as
housing and employment
"TheCXIA is very effective
in convincing people that the
issue is spei ial rights for
homosexuals when in reality
they are taking away civil
rights and legalizing dis
crimination." said Marilyn
VVagener of Albany, who
fought the measure in lann
County.
Wagener also said Tues
day's vote showed the need
for the state Legislature to
pass a hill to ban discrimino
iian against homosexuals
"I guess I foe! that since itie
(K:A luis dm tiled to tear tins
state apart city by < ily and
county by county, that this is
only the beginning," site said
Last year's statewide ini
tiotive sponsori-d lt\ tlte (X.A
would have dm hired homo
sexuality "unnatural” and
"perverse" and would have
required stale and lot al gov
ernmenls to actively dis
courage it.
After the measure was
rejected by Oregon voters, tint
alliaiu e reworked the initia
tive and said it would push
the toned-down version in
places that generally sup
ported Measure ")
In an early test last month
m Cornelius, the first of the
group’s lot al initiatives was
approved bv voters ill a town
that boil rejected Measure '»
by a narrow margin
The Oregon chapter of the
American Civil Liberties
Union has i hallenged the
Cornelius measure, arguing it
violates i onstitutional guar
unices of equal proltn lion
under the law and freedom of
speech, religion and assem
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