Environment concern shared in mayor race
■Two candidates are UO
students, including Nolan
Brewer, who disputed with
police during WRC protests
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Six candidates have registered
in the race for Eugene mayor,
with another candidate running
a grassroots write-in campaign.
Alexa Doty, an independent
video cable-access producer, said
she decided to run for mayor be
cause of the “opportunity to
speak to people about what I feel
are important issues.”
One of the most pressing is
sues for Doty, 36, is what she
calls the public ignorance of a
current “social crisis” gripping
Eugene and the rest of the nation.
Doty pointed to school shootings
and “toddlers being drugged
with Ritalin” as examples of this
crisis.
“People need to find ways to re
move themselves from economic
survival and live sustainably,”
she said.
Doty does not have any formal
government experience but said
she had worked on various state
ballot measures that included
marijuana legalization and sus
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tainable forestry.
Michael Glownia, 32, said he
was inspired to run when he
moved to Eugene from Michigan
at the height of the controversy
regarding tax subsidies for the
Hyundai Corporation.
“In the summer, I took my son
to Amazon Park, and it was
closed because there wasn’t
enough money, and I thought if
there’s enough money for a big
corporation, there must be
enough money for local kids,” he
said.
Like the other candidates for
mayor, Glownia is a steadfast
supporter of open land preserva
tion and is opposed to sprawl.
If elected, Glownia said he
would erase the threat of urban
sprawl and work to add alterna
tive methods of transportation
such as a light-rail train system.
Lazar Makyadath, 55, who
owns three stores including
Lazar’s Bazar, envisions a much
more festive Eugene if he is elect
ed mayor.
“I want to become mayor for
the city so that the city will come
together in a New Orleans,
Mardis Gras kind of way,” he
said.
One way to achieve this festiv
ity, Makyadath said, would be to
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hold downtown block parties
every weekend throughout the
year. These parties, he said,
would bring the city together and
make it a tourist destination.
In addition to partying, Makya
dath said he is “100 percent be
hind supporting local business”
and against large companies who
want to move into the city.
Micah Rueber, 27, a University
student majoring in economics
who also repairs musical instru
ments, said his decision to run
for mayor arose as a joke but was
drawn into the race and now has
a real message for the city.
“I believe that city government
has no place in society except for
roads, road maintenance, police,
fire and emergency services,” he
said.
Rueber said he would veto any
ordinance passed by the city
council and take a critical look at
any city program or agency that
came before the council to have
their funding approved.
“I don’t think the city should
do much at all,” he said. “If we
did that, we could lower taxes
and let people spend their mon
ey the way they wanted to.”
Mayor Jim Torrey beat out
eight other candidates in the last
mayoral election, which was four
years ago and said he hopes to re
peat that success in this year’s
race, pointing out that he is faced
by competition with little gov
ernment experience.
“If you don’t have a basic un
derstanding of what impacts
growth, you want change
things,” he said.
Often portrayed as a supporter
of the status quo and friend of big
business, Torrey fiercely defend
ed his work to protect the envi
ronment and said he has done
extensive work to limit any
growth of the area within the ur
ban growth boundary.
If elected to a second term,
Torrey said he would work to en
sure that the city has a safe
downtown area, safe places for
young people to go after school
and that the fire and police de
partments would have new
downtown stations.
James “Izzy” Whetstine, 61,
hopes his third time running for
mayor will be successful and an
opportunity for him to take on
urban growth and pollution.
“I think that anyone trashing
the environment needs a good
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