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CANDIDATES President Al Gore Democrat Occupation: Vice President of the United States Running mate: U S. Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. Gore has said he would balance the budget and eliminate the national debt, promote targetted tax cuts, push for prescription drug benefits and a Patients’ bill of Rights, provide health care access to children, reform schools by reducing class sizes a nd referbishi ng fa il i ng schools, strenghten Social Security and protect the environment, contact: (615) 340-2000, www.algore2000.com George W. Bush Republican Occupation: Governor of Texas Running mate: former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney Bush’s biggest campaign plans include reforming educa tion by increasing local control of schools and making schoolsaccountible for student performance, refurbishing Social Security by allowing workers to invest portions of So cial Security taxes into the individual retirement accounts, supporting broad tax cuts and bolstering the military, contact: (512) 637-2000, www.georgewbush.com Ralph Nader Pacific Green Occupation: Consumer advocate Running mate: activist and author Winona LaDuke Nader has pledged to protect the environmentfrom in dustry, change energy policy to promote alternative fuels, end logging on public land, enact campaign finance re form, support labor unions’ right to organize and oppose global trade policies that place trade over the environ,ment and human rights. Nader has said he is working to build up the Green Party to become a viable third party. contact: (202) 26S-40Q0, www.votenader.org Pat Buchanan Independent Occupation: syndicated columnist and talk show host contact: {703} 734-2700, www.buchananreform.com Harry Browne Libertarian Occupation: Author contact (202} 521-1200, www.harrybrowne.org JohnHagelin Reform Occupation: Research physicist, educator and public policy analyst contact: (877) 424-3546, www.hagelin.org Howard Phillips Constitution Occupation: chairman, The Conservative Caucus contact: (703) 242-0613, www.phillips2000.com The following candidates are on the Eugene bal lot, although they are running uncontested. Mayor: Jim Torrey City Council Ward 2: Betty Taylor City Council Ward 3: Bonny Bettman City Council Ward 7: Scott Meisner City Council Ward 8: Nancy Nathanson Eugene Water and Electric Board EWEB Wards 1 & 8: Pat Lanning EWEB Wards 2 & 3: Dorothy Anderson EWEB Wards 6 & 7: Sandra Bishop Attorney General The Attorney General provides administrative oversight and support for the Department of Justice. Duties include directing and reviewing actions made by the department’s divisions, providing legal direction to the department’s 190 lawyers and represent ing the state in high-profile cases. Thomas Cox Libertarian A database engi neer from Salem, Cox supports minimizing gov ernment and de fending individ ual rights. He has no prior govern ment experience. Cox graduated from the University of Chicago in 1996 and has worked in engineering, public rela tions and management consulting, contact: (503) 703-0666 Kevin Mannix Republican Mannix iscam paigningwitha tough-on-crime agenda and highlights his sponsorship of Measure 11, anti-stalking laws and other anti-crime bills as proof of his seriousness about protecting Ore gonians. He also pledges to give every case in Oregon equal priority and take on fraudulent businesses. Mannix has served as an assistant attorney general in both Guam and Oregon, an adminis trative law judge, circuit court judge and state senator and representative. He received a bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of Vir ginia. contact: (503) 485-2983 Hardy Myers Democrat Myers has served one term as At torney General and says his work has bene fited Oregon’s society in gener al. He views the office as a means to protect every citi zen’s basic rights and defend those rights against criminal activity. He said he has also worked to assist victims of domestic violence and establish a auto mated telephone notification system to update crime victims on the trials of suspects in their cases. Before being elected attorney general, Myers served as a state representative and speaker of the house, held a chair on the Oregon Criminal Justice Council and served on the Oregon Law Commission. He re ceived his undergraduate degree from the University of Mississippi and his law degree from the University of Oregon. contact: (503) 364-4028 Secretary of State The secretary of state oversees elections, conducts state audits, oversees apportionment of voter districts and manages state owned lands, along with the governor and treasurer. Bill Bradbury Democrat Bradbury is the current secretary of state. He has also served as execu tive director of For the Sake of Salmon, worked as a television jour nalist and owned a restaurant and video production company. His pri or governmental experience in cludes serving as State Representa tive [1981-1985], State Senator [1985-1995], Senate majority leader [1987-1992] and Sen ate president [1993-1995], Bradbury presided over the nation’s first vote-by-mail pri mary election, which saw the highest voter turnout since 1988. Bradbury said he would ensure tax dollars are not wasted, protect Oregon’s natural heritage and make the owners of the New Carissa pay for clean-up costs. Bradbury has said he is also fighting to ensure the state gets the high est value for our timber products to benefit schools. contact: (503) 233-2311, www.bradbury2000.com Lynn Snodgrass Republican Snodgrass is a small business owner and Oregon House Speaker. Her pri or governmental experience in cludes serving as State Representa tive [1995-present], house majority leader [1997], Speaker of the House [1999-present]. Snodgrass has been involved with the community through the Mt. Hood Medical Foun dation and Habitat for Humanity. Snodgrass’s platform is investing in accountable schools by securing funding and requiring administrative and class room accountability. Also, Snodgrass plans on working to wards a more-efficient government and fair elections, which protect voter rights and the initiative process. contact: (503)245-9295, www.lynnsnodgrass.com Lloyd Marbet Pacific Green Marbet is a citizen activist who served on the Citizen’s Utility Board from 1986-1994 and the Clackamas River Basin Council from 1996-2000. Marbet’s platform revolves around campaign finance reform, using in stant runoffs in elections to immedi ately determine winners and re drawing political voting districts to prevent gerrymandering. Marbet’s campaign finance reform plan would involve re ducing or banning corporations’ funds to finance cam paigns, and has said that the 23 percent of registered Inde pendent voters in Oregon are disillusioned with the amount of corporate money in political campaigns, contact: (503)771-7254, www.marbet.org E.J. (Ed) Pole, II Libertarian Pole has been an electronics engi neer at Intel Corp. since 1996, worked at IBM for 30 years and was a member of the Apollo 11 launch team. He has no prior governmental experience. Pole has said that he would support campaign finance reform and end tax support for candidates and parties. Pole would also end tax-funded political primaries, and has said that he would protect the Oregon initiative process. He has said he would redraw voter districts to oppose partisan politics. Pole said he would also support ending term limits for elected offi cials. contact: (503)648-6013, www.ejpoleii.org
