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Here are the Primary Candidates for ASUO seats for the upcoming
1997-98 school year. Primary and general elections will be next quarter:
Position Seat
President/VP
EMUB At-Large 1
2
PFC At-Large 1
PFC Senator 1
3
EMUB Finance Sen. 4
6
AD Finance Sen. 7
8
9
Senate Undeclared 10
11
AAA/Inter 12
A&L Journalism 13
Social Science 14
15
Business 17
Grad. Law 18
ASPAC 1
2
Candidates
Ryan Ositis/ Dayna Terry
Brandon Smith/ Asha Mary John
Bill Miner/Ben Unger
Brad Smith/Karl Shelton
James Boyd/Andrew Oberriter
Ed Madrid/AlayneMundt
Emily Robertson
Sam Bessey
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Michelle Johnston
Daniel Reid
Joshua Dobson
Greg Labavitch
Stacey Wolfe
Jenna Wasson
Shane Peterson
Geneva Wortman
Michael Price
Christopher Jaeger
Kerri Lookabaugh
Travis Layton
Kent Black
Nick Bonnichsen
Taryn Tarver
Rheanna Cash
Elliott Dale
Laura Kane
Tarn Allen
C.C. McCarthy
Tamyr Kriegel
Benjamin Kuhlman
Mark Hemingway
Gillian Brinegar
Michael Olson
Jennifer Luck
Jonathan Collegio
Jeff Kershner
Lisa Greif
Marshall Wilde
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Panelists debate campaign reform
■ ELECTIONS: Participants
in an OSPIRG forum argued
over whether the system is
capable of reforming itself
By Eric Collins
Community Reporter
Although they couldn’t all
agree on the same way to get
there, four panelists brought to
gether during a Saturday after
noon OSPIRG forum agreed that
campaign finance reform is neces
sary at all levels of government.
Harry Lonsdale, a three-time
U.S. Senate candidate, was joined
by Lane County Commissioner
Peter Sorenson, and Oregon Com
mon Cause executive director
David Buchanan in his belief that
reforming the current political
system could only come from
within the existing initiative and
court systems. However, recent
U.S. Socialist Party candidate
Christopher Phelps disagreed, ar
guing that only a mass grassroots
protest would bring about the
proper change.
The forum, sponsored by the
Win Back Democracy project
group, one of seven umbrella or
ganizations affiliated with OS
PIRG, was designed to increase
public awareness of the power of
lobbyist money in government
and to involve citizens in the re
forming process at the local, state
and federal levels.
Lonsdale used the session to re
cruit volunteers for his Campaign
for Democracy, a national coali
tion working toward the idea of
publicly funding elections.
“Public money in, private mon
ey out,” the theme of the organiza
tion, was repeatedly hammered
upon by Lonsdale as he described
a system in which candidates
would be given equal amounts of
state funds and media access to
insure the viability of all party
candidates. By using this strategy,
Lonsdale said, candidates would
not have to rely on corporate or
private interest donations to win
their elections.
Lonsdale said media access,
such as television time, was one
of the heaviest draws of campaign
funds.
“Elections are won and lost on
television, and television isn't
cheap,” Lonsdale said.
By putting less of an emphasis
on gaining corporate donations
for use on television, Lonsdale
said he believed newly elected of
ficials would no longer be forced
to fulfill the needs of such donors.
“[The people] have no voice,
the voice and money are on the
other side,” Lonsdale said. “If
there’s money on the other side,
you’ll lose — you’ll always lose.”
In addition, Lonsdale said a
large part of the movement in
volved convincing legislators to
make campaign finance reform
their main concern. He said if leg
islators didn’t follow this con
cern, the people should get them
out of office.
“We need to say, hey, baby, you
don’t like campaign finance re
form, we’ll replace you with
someone who does,” Lonsdale
said.
In Oregon, campaign finance
reform experienced a recent set
back as the Oregon Supreme
Court overturned a 1994 state ini
tiative, Measure 9, limiting cam
paign spending and contribu
tions. The Court found that
limiting the amount of contribu
tions a candidate can receive is
unconstitutional because it limits
the free speech rights of donors.
However, David Buchanan, ex
ecutive director of Oregon Com
mon Cause, one of the founders of
Measure 9, said the initiative had
been effective in 1996 elections.
“[Measure 9] did produce a
change in the electoral process,”
Buchanan said. “Spending was
much lower than in previous
elections.”
Buchanan’s organization is
working on developing a differ
ent, constitutional reform initia
tive to be introduced in the state
legislature.
However, reform on the federal
level has been and will be a much
harder struggle, Buchanan said.
The national Common Cause as
sociation is also searching for a
campaign finance formula that
would bring limits on a federal
level, be constitutional and get
support from federal legislators, a
formula Buchanan said won’t be
immediately found.
While Lonsdale, Sorenson and
Buchanan focused their efforts on
changing the current election sys
tem through the ballot box and
the courts, Phelps, a visiting assis
tant professor of history at the
University of Oregon, said history
showed through the collective
bargaining agreements of the
1930s, civil rights struggles of the
1960s, and abortion rights battles
of the 1970s, that change would
only come through a mass move
ment of the people.
“[Change] comes from below,
from movements of ordinary peo
ple taking power for themselves,”
Phelps said.
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