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Vote no on 5,20
I oppose fallal Measures 5 anti
20 ns they will have a profound
ly negative effect on the state’s
ability to invest in people and a
much needed infrastructure
Each year, state and local gov
ernments issue about Si billion
in bonds. These tKinds aren’t for
"frills"; they pay for such things
as schools, roads, bridges, water
systems end housing
Issuing bonds is a fair and equi
table way to share the costs of
these long-lived projects with
future users Further, these pro
jects create family-wage jobs for
(Iregonians and contribute to the
quality of life in our state
Borrowing money through the
issuance of bonds makes Bunn
( ini sense, and is the same as a
person borrowing long-term to
buy a house. Paying cash for a
home usually isn’t feasible, and
the same is true with large capi
tal projects
The state has been very pru
dent in its borrowings, and in
fact, most of the state’s txind pro
grams ant self-supporting, which
means the revenues collet ted
from the projects, not tax dollars,
pay off the bonds
Passage of either Ballot Mea
sures 5 or 20 will bring the state’s
bonding program to a halt. Ballot
Measure 5 will create a situation
where any future bond program
will cost taxpayers hundreds of
millions of dollars in increased
interest costs and construction
delays. Ballot Measure 20 elim
inates bonding altogether.
Ballot Measures 5 and 20 are
destructive for Oregon and I
encourage Oregonians to vote
against them.
Jim Hill
State Treasurer
Bear down
To all those tree-hugging, root
eating animal lovers out there:
(let a life!
Ballot Measure 1H will prevent
Oregon from controlling preda
tor populations, bears and
cougars. It will eliminate the tools
wildlife managers need to con
trol dangerous cougar and bear
populations and place our chil
dren ut risk
Besides, if this measure pass
es, I won't lie able to finish i ar
peting my family room with bear
skins
Vote No on Ballot Measure 1M
Don Vladsdek
Eugene
Real threats
OCA-ers assort that Ballot Mea
sure 13 is designed to protect
children Additionallv. the OCA
cites elimination of sjms tal rights
as one of its masons for existent »•
Hiev feel that the lifestyles peo
ple freely choose should not give
them prote< tod t ivil rights status
We've continued these two
goals and have arrived at what
the (XIA's agenda should really
lie:
1 Amend the constitution to
ban government support of het
erosexual men.
2. Eliminate special rights
based on religion.
This would actually support
the OCA's stated goals Straight
men make up the largest per
centage of child molesters, and
religion is clearly something one
chooses — hence the term "born
again " Obviously, men should
be banned and religion no longer
protected in hiring, housing, etc.
We imagine that CXiA-ers who
have religious affiliations would
t*i under considerable stress sup
porting a measure that would
exclude them from society Of
course, all OOA-ers who art*
straight men would probably
have double difficulty excluding
themselves on both counts Still,
that's the price they should glad
ly pav to fulfill their goals.
Perhaps they could ms- that jus!
because you're male and straight
doesn't mean you’re n molester,
that you shouldn't be officially
scorned because of your sexual
orientation
Perhaps they could see that
there is a reason to extend civil
rights to someone based on
choice the choice of religion
The 'threat to children
doesn't come from them hearing
ideas their parents don't like
Daniel and Kathleen Cann
Casiato
Eugene
Stop slaughter
On Nov H voters will have a
chant i* to support Ballot Measure
1H. banning two of the most
despicable and shameless prai
tii es in the state of (frvgoti shoot -
itiK hears at point-blank range
after baiting them and killing
cougars treed by hounds outfit
ted with radio transmitters
A fairly blatant and laughable
misconception about Ballot Mea
sure 1H is that it is about hunter's
rights This isn't about hunter's
rights be< ause killing animals in
this fashion is not hunting 1 grew
up in 1 astern Oregon where I had
several friends who indulged in
the sport They did it the real
wav They actually had to have
some skill. They applied them
sely es
I would like to think that
hunters would bo the most fer
vent activists supporting this tvil
lot measure Su< fi people at least
take some pride in the sport, or
"art'' if you will.
I art us dispense with the notion
of legions of cougars and hears
attac king and slaughtering peo
ple in our cities From watching
some of the dime-store propa
ganda "No on IH" commercials,
one might be left with |ust such
an impression
There are reasonable provi
sions and exceptions in the bal
lot measure for private landown
ers and government agents to use
methods to control nuisance
(tears and cougars.
Vote Yes on Ballot Measure 18
Gerry Rem pel
Graduate, music
Edit inhalers
The writer who penned the
editorial (ODE Oct. 27) support
ing the Ferry Street Bridge has
been obviously inhaling too
much < arbon monoxide
Tlu- contention that people
won’t leave their cars at home
and support mass transit is dead
wrong
The w riter need only look 110
miles up to Portland The city's
691 diesel buses and 2ti light rail
vehicles take 100,000 (.ars off the
streets each weekday That many
cars, if placed end-to-end. would
streti h for over 200 miles
How did Portland's city plan
ners i onx people out of their tars'
First they put a tap on downtown
parking spaces and then raised
the price of parking to a level
where it bet ame cheaper to use
mass ’ i analt rather than drive
As a result, Portland's down
town lias a European atmosphere,
abounding with pedestrians and
fresh air.
Two decades ago Portland was
at a crossroads Its air was so pol
luted with car exhaust that it
failed federal clean air standards
one out of every three days
And yet streets and bridges
needed expanding to keep up
with traffic i ongestion So city
planners decided to vigorously
pursue a mass transit option
fiy creating disincentives to
driving and installing an efficient
system of buses and light rail
vehicles, tbev got people out of
their cars
Mass transit yynrks in Portland
It i an work here too Vote no on
Ballot Measure 20-23
Steve Knight
Eugene
No on 20-23
The (Incision voters make on
the proposed Ferry Street Bridge
expansion vs ill l>e a i ritii al one
who h is likely to guide future
city policy on alternative trails
portation planning, land use.
growth management and even i it
i/.mi involvement.
Perhaps the most significant
dravvhat k to this project is its
enormous size The now bridge
would be approximately three
times wider than the current
bridge It would lie twit e the si/e
of the Interstate 5 bridge across
the Willamette river And the
bridge only act mints for S10 mil
lion of the Sf t million cost esti
mate by the City of Fugene
The total tust for the projet t is
actually much higher if we add
in the cost of lost property tax
revenues and lost jobs due to ths
lot at ion of business in the t or
ridor There are also many hid
den t.osts. such as the need to
provide expensive new parking
garages and road widening to
ai i ominodate all the new i ars
that the bridge will bring A mom
conservative price for this projot t
is $H<) to 5Hit) million
The city has only identified
$41 million in funding for this
1. leav mg the public won
(Inring where the rest of the mon
ey will come from If it comes
from a bond issue, property tax
es (ami rents) could go lip bv
SIM) |M»r year for a typic nl home
in Eugene
This protect will not make
Eugene a better place to live
Instead, it will tend to in< reuse
tar traffic throughout the city and
itu reuse our dejxstdenc e on indi
vidualized automobile trans
portation rather than encourage
a walkable. bikeable. livable city
with a strong mass transit system.
Here are a few more masons to
start over on this project
• Public input has b«>on largc>
ly ignored
• FSB expansion vv ill one mir
age a sprawling, automobile
dependent system of land use
• Fixing traffic, in one area
tends to shift the problem to oth
er areas
• Alternatives to nupor bridge
construe tion were never serious
l\ t onsidemd
If tins bridge is built, people
will look at it years from now and
wonder bow we made such a
colossal blunder Please vote for
sensible transportation solutions
bv voting NO on Ballot Measure
20-2.1
Eben Fodor
President, Frtends of
Eugene
Judge yourself
As you judgo n>«. pUsast* judgo
mo as an individual Ins auso mv
vmws .ms my own. and I do not
want Idnrno going in sonioono
olso's di root ion This lottor is in
rtisponso to a "(.all for hulp"
(OUKOt.t iti)
If I btslinvt* in tho jairson of (ani
and tho plat o of Moavon, thou by
dofinition. Ihosti words ospross
separation. The separation
cm etuis distance by my will to
place my ilesirvs above God's
Bridging the gap between (.od
and me msuis something beyond
me. something outside myself.
That something is the one from
1 leaven, Jesus ( hrist
Christianity is about relation
ships Th« first is with God
through im total trust in and
complete dependence in )osus
Christ rho s«c:ond is n relation
ship with others, relationships
lived through tlu> first
Christianity docs not begin
with the idisi that everything is
nil rigfit liecausc God loves you.
Christianity begins with
CimI Jesus Christ
Christianity is about humani
ty's waywardness from (kid and
Cod rwu lung out to humanity
vsitli the highest expression of
love the son of Cod Christian
ity does not flow from the t on
si lent e of humanity to Cod, but
from (an! s mind toward us
To the wayward, (those
involved in sexual practice yxith
someone who is not a marriage
partner of the opposite sex. those
who gossip, those who malign
the name of others, those wild
slander the name of Cod, those
who lie and cheat and those
daughters of Adam and f ive) I say
as a felloyy m waywardness who
is striving to remain "uinvav
yvard" and in Christ, when yve
deny tlie yvav of Cod. yve Ihs tune
an offense to the Lord of lilory
Until yye recognize our way
wardness, yve can never ms- ( axi s
desire to make us "unwayyy artl
(.od loves tis, not her ause yve
at i epl ourselves or t.ike part 111
yvho yve are, hut tux ause Cod has
reai lied out to wayward genera
turns through the expression of
love.
Ed Childers
Baptist Student Union
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