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Politicians run the gamut
■Three novice candidates
speak on crime, education,
health care and taxes
By Lindsay Buchele
Daily Emerald
Three newcomers to Oregon poli
tics are running for the state represen
tative seat for District 40.
One is a De
mocrat who
hopes to better
fund education;
another is a Re
publican who
stresses the
need to improve
the Oregon
Health Plan;
and the third is
a Socialist who wants to “level the
playing field” by taxing the rich at a
higher rate.
All about education
Democratic candidate Phil Barn
hart became concerned about Ore
gon’s educational future when sever
al tax-cut measures passed in the
early 1990s. A practicing psycholo
gist, Barnhart
said he worried
about how the
measures
caused the lay
off of more than
100 teachers in
the 4J School
District.
“When Ballot
Measure 5
passed ... it cut
property taxes,
which had a major impact on the Eu
gene School District,” Barnhart said.
“I became very frustrated with this.”
To make a difference in school
funding, Barnhart ran for and was
elected to the Eugene School Board
in 1994, and he began lobbying state
legislatures on behalf of the district.
BARNHART
wSte
STATE
ELECTIONS
“I found that when I was lobbying
in Salem, it was the Democrats who
were more supportive and the Re
publicans who were more skeptical
about why we couldn’t fund our own
program,” Barnhart said.
As a result, Barnhart said he be
came active in the Democratic Party,
and is now chairman of the Democ
ratic Party of Lane County.
As for health care, Barnhart said he
wants to make the Oregon Health
Plan more available to students. Full
time students generally do not quali
fy because although their income lev
el is low enough, they often don’t
hold jobs, which is one of the require
ments of the plan.
Improving Oregon’s health
Republican candidate Bill Young,
who decided to run for office after his
friends and neighbors waged a write
in campaign, said his background in
community service best qualifies him
for the job.
“I have the ability to represent
everyone in the district,” Young said.
“I’ve been a veterinarian in this dis
trict for 30 years, and I’ve had my
home in this district for 30 years.”
One of the fo
cuses of his
YOUNG
campaign is to
improve the
way the Oregon
Health Plan is
used.
“There are a
lot of abuses in
the plan that
can fc\e im
proved,” Young
said. “If we look
at the qualifications and give the
providers the ability to say what doee
and doesn’t qualify people for the
plan, we could eliminate those abus
ing the system.”
Young said another issue thal
needs to be addressed is public safety
He said he would support investing
money into a rehabilitation program
to prevent first-time offenders from
committing crimes again.
“There were 1,100 criminals who
were repeat offenders last year and
were arrested as many as 10 times in
one year,” Young said. “Our police of
ficers are wasting manpower by hav
ing to arrest the same criminals over
and over again.”
Leaning to the left
Socialist candidate Karl Sorg said
the Democratic Party has gone “too
far to the right.” A retired attorney,
Sorg was a Democratic supporter un
til he felt his views shifting to the left.
“The two parties [Republican and
Democrat] have pushed too close to
gether,” Sorg said.
As the secretary for the organiza
tion Health Care for All-Oregon, Sorg
said he focuses on establishing health
care for all residents.
Sorg also said a change in the tax
structure in general would benefit the
state.
“I want to try to change the tax
structure so the rich pay more,” Sorg
said. “We really need to level the
playing field.”
Sorg said this
would help pro
tect the ordinary
working person.
“Minimum
wage should be
at $12 an hour,
because any
thing less is be
low poverty lev
el,” he said.
As for educa
tion, Sorg said
it’s an atrocity that there are soft-drink
machines in schools.
“We shouldn’t be funding our
schools by placing Pepsi machines in
them because it’s not healthy for our
kids,” Sorg said. “If we want to fund
our schools, we should raise the tax
es for the rich.”
SORG
success,