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