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U.S. House of Representatives The U.S. House of Representatives 4th Congressional District: This seat represents the University area along with Lane, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Linn, the northern part of Josephine and most of Benton counties. Peter DeFazio Democrat DeFazio was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1986 and has served seven consecutive terms since then. He recently helped pass legislation to protect the Steens Mountains in Southeastern Oregon and to establish an expansive wilderness area. As a member of the Progressive Caucus, DeFazio said he has invested more in education and transportation and moved away from overfunding Cold War weapons. Next year, DeFazio said he would fight for the national surplus to be spent funding education and health care. He also said he would continue his work to get Eugene a high-speed rail line, contact: 485-1622 John Lindsey Republican Lindsey is currently a Linn County Commissioner. He be lieves major reform is needed for Social Security and fa vors the plan George W. Bush supports. Lindsey also thinks government-supported health-care programs need reform. Lindsey believes Title One schools, or failing schools receiving federal money, are abusing the money they receive. He therefore supports giving vouchers to stu dents in these failing schools so they may receive a better education. Lindsey would also like to localize crime con trol and focus on working together with the public, businesses and workers unions, contact: 926-2096 David Duemler Socialist Duemler is a member of Eugene Peace Works and Citizens for Animal Rights, Eugene. He feels his activism with these groups, as well as not being a major party candidate, helps him to talk about issues other candidates won’t ad dress. These issues include a person’s right to impart infor mation through the mass media and the elimination of nuclear weapons. Duemler is a big supporter of the Global Action Plan to prevent war and wants to reduce invest ments in national security. If elected, he will continue to fight for animal rights, contact: 484-0621 Judge of the Supreme Court, Position 2 Greg Byrne Byrne is a business attorney and a Vietnam War veteran with degrees from Harvard Law School and South Carolina University. He has been a lawyer for 29 years and has ar gued dozens of cases before the Supreme Court. Byrne is endorsed by Adult Care Providers of Oregon, Crime Vic tims United of Oregon and state Sen. Majority Leader Gene Derfler. Contact: www.Byrne4SC.org Paul J. DeMuniz DeMuniz is a judge for the Oregon Court of Appeals, where he has served since 1990. He holds degrees from Willamette University and Portland State University and is a Vietnam veteran. Demuniz has been endorsed by for mer Oregon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt, University President Dave Frohnmayer, Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Noelle and several current judges. contact: www.demuniz.com State House of Representatives 41st District This seat represents the University area and much of Eugene. Vicki L Walker Democrat Walker became interested in government workings as a high school student. She earned a degree from the University in political science. She currently owns her own business as a court reporter and waited to pursue a career in politics until her children were grown. She was elected to the 41st District Seat in 1998 and served her two-year term. During her term she served on the Transportation, Trade and Economic Development, and Legislative Counsel committees. Walker said she wants to stop travel agencies from promising high school and college students quality trips and then ripping them off. Other issues Walker focused on included controlling the use of pesticides, making youth suicide prevention a priority of the state, increasing funding for secondary and higher education and cracking down on car title loans that target and take advantage of lower-income families. Walker said she worked well with both Republicans and Democrats, contact: 465-9720, www.continet.com/walker Jeff Miller Republican Miller served on the Eugene City Council and was mayor from 1989 to 1993. As mayor, Miller said he fo cused on human rights issues. Miller has owned a small insurance business in Eugene, Pacific Benefit Con sultants/Eugene Insurance, for four years. Miller said he wants to improve Oregon’s health insurance by testing different methods that work in the private sector. He said he also wants to give power back to the iocal school districts, start prevention programs to help keep children from becoming criminals and cir cumvent partisan politics, contact: 343-6979, www.friendsofjeffmiller.org State Treasurer The State Treasurer works as the state’s chief banker, manages the state’s pension fund, issues state debt and oversees the use of state-owned lands along with the governor and secretary of state. Randall Edwards Democrat Edwards is currently a state representa tive from Portland. Edwards also spent four years working as a senior adviser for the Oregon State Treasury. He now owns his own management and market ing consulting business. He recently iaunched the College Sav ings Plan, which allows parents to cre ate a tax-free savings account for their children’s college education. Edwards said his work in the Trea sury has helped him gain the respect and trust of the Treasury staff, contact: (503) 255-1245, www.edwardsfortreasurer.com Mitchell T. Shults Libertarian Shults has spent the last 20 years at Intel as director of business development for the fabric components division. He also worked on the staff of the House Com mittee on the Oversight of the Interior, which helped force the resignation of Jim Watt. Shults said he would open all state lands sales to the public, would end all taxa tion on investment income, begin an investment in a retire ment plan and allow Oregonians to opt out of receiving federal ly funded social security and instead receive state-funded social security. (800) 631-8292, www.shults2000.com Jon Kvistad Republican Kvistad has owned and operated his own management and marketing con sulting business for the past 16 years. He has also served on the Portland Metro Government since 1992 and has been elected presiding officer three times. Kvistad said he would focus on looking out for Oregon’s environment while overseeing state-owned lands, contact: (503) 590-3282, www.kvistad.com Carlos Lucero Constitution Party Lucero currently owns his own soft ware contracting business. He hopes to be the voice for Hispanic people living in Oregon. Lucero said his goal would be to create a more clean, efficient and accountable state government. He would also like to increase education funding and eliminate juvenile crime. (503) 644-9338 www.starluc3@home.com Leonard Zack Reform Party Zack said he will focus on the environment through the development of renewable, safe, non-polluting energy sources. He also said he wants to invest in preventive health care rather than in what he called the current “disease-care plan.” Zack said his main focus as treasurer would be to invest in industry that is profitable and sustainable. (503) 788-5868, www.lezac@juno.com This Oregon election is the nation’s first exclusively vote-by-mail general election. Those who wait un til the last second to return their ballots could use the handful of drop-off points in Eugene. University of Oregon EMU East Wing Lower Level Lobby, outside ASUO Executive Office 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day Lane County Elections office 135 East 6th Ave. drop slot by office door 24 hours every day until 8 p.m. on Election Day Amazon Community Center 2700 Hilyard St. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day Drive-by ballot drop boxes: East side of Pearl Street between East 7th and 8th avenues between City Hall and County Service Building. 24 hours every day until 8 p.m. on Election Day Parting lot behind State of Oregon Building 165 East 7th Ave. 24 hours every day until 8 p.m. on Election Day City of Eugene-Bethel Library Echo Hollow Plaza 1990 Echo Hollow Road For more information, see the Lane County Elections Web site: www.co.lane.or.us/elections, or call 682-4234.
