Candidates express causes '
■ A Democrat, a Republican
and a Socialist discuss their
policy goals in their run for
the U.S. Congress
By Lindsay Bucheie
Oregon Daily Emerald
The three candidates running
for the U.S. House of Representa
tives seat for the Eugene area have
different causes. The incumbent
stresses support for the environ
ment, his
Republi
can op
p o n e nt
pushes
reform
for Social
Security,
and the
Socialist
candi
date just
wants his
voice to
be heard.
Protecting the environment
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.,
is facing challenges to his seven
term run from Republican John
Lindsey and Socialist David
Duemler.
DeFazio was elected to the U.S.
Congress in 1986 and has served
since then. He said he recently
helped pass legislation to protect
the Steens Mountains in South
eastern Oregon and to establish an
expansive wilderness area.
“I have a very strong record of
supporting the environment,” De
Fazio said. “[I’ve supported] every
thing from energy conservation to
forest conservation. We just recent
ly got money to expand the Eugene
wetlands.”
As a member of the Progressive
Caucus, DeFazio said he has in
vested more in education and
transportation and moved away
from overfunding Cold War
weapons.
“I was the principal author of a
bill that would bring $600 million
to help fund county and rural
school districts,” DeFazio said. “I
also supported a federal plan to
provide loans at lower interest
rates for students.”
Part of DeFazio’s pay is given to
the University every year in the
form of a Presidential Scholarship,
DeFazio said.
Next year, DeFazio said he
would fight for the national sur
plus to be spent funding education
and health care. He also said he
would continue his work to get Eu
gene a high-speed rail line.
Social Security reform
John Lindsey, a Linn County
commissioner, said he has some
paramount issues of his own to
tackle. He said Social Security
needs to be reformed as soon as
possible.
“I’m very much in favor of the
plan that Bush is presenting,”
Lindsey said.
Under the plan, 2 percent of a
person’s payroll would be invested
in a tax-sheltered safe return ac
count so that the money could be
passed on to one’s heirs, Lindsey
said.
In addition, Lindsey said gov
ernment-supported health-care
programs also need reform.
“We need to concentrate on the
doctor-patient relationship,” Lind
sey said. “The problem with
HMOs is they are government
funded and therefore harder to re
form.”
Education is another of those
paramount issues Lindsey said he
would like to address. He said Ti
tle One schools, which are failing
schools offered federal money, of
ten abuse those funds.
“We throw money at the prob
lems in Title One schools without
directly answering the problem,”
Lindsey said. “By giving more
money to failing schools, we are
encouraging failure.”
Lindsey said that by giving
vouchers to students in Title One
schools, they will be able to leave
those schools and attend more suc
cessful ones.
“It’s time we started focusing on
inner-city schools and how we are
cheating some youth by funding
failing schools,” Lindsey said.
Lindsey said he would also like
to localize crime control and focus
on working together with the pub
lic, businesses and workers’
unions.
Fighting to he heard
David Duemler said his activism
in the Eugene Peace Works and
Citizens for Animal Rights has
helped him talk about issues major
party candidates are afraid to ad
dress. He’s never held a political
office, but Duemler said that helps
him discuss issues such as a per
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son’s right to impart information
through the media and the elimi
nation of nuclear weapons.
"One of the most important
rights a person has is to be heard,”
Duemler said. “Public interest
groups should have a regular op
portunity to develop programs and
air them in the mass media.”
Duemler said he is a big support
er of the Global Action Plan to pre
vent war and wants to reduce in
vestments in national security. He
also said that if elected, he would
continue to fight for animal rights.
Duemler said he believes he has
no chance of winning, but his cam
paign will help him bring these
un-addressed issues into the politi
cal discussion.
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