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Candidates continued from pagel governor,” plans to fly his bush plane around the state to stay in touch with his constituents if elect ed. Lee Shindler wants to take his previous city council experience and use it to stay in touch with peo ple statewide. Another contender is Roger Weidner, a man with an ax to grind against the court system. These candidates may not win the election. But they all paid the $100 fee to register as a candidate in Oregon’s primary and aim to raise awareness of their pet proj ects, or at least provide an alterna tive to the six mainstream candi dates on the ballot. Most importantly, all of them have something to say about their campaign and what they’d do in the event Oregon voters chose one of them. William Peter Allen William Peter Allen believes the federal government is defrauding Oregon to the tune of $20 billion a year. He is seeking the De mocratic nomi nation and plans to change the way Orego nians pay in come tax, if elected. A consultant and former en gineer for Port land General Electric and various missile and space programs, Allen said he studied Oregon’s tax base and de cided that the state was paying too much money to the federal gov ernment each year. “The problem with Oregon is there’s nothing here,” he said. “We’re sacrificing our schools and our state so the government can spend it on other states.” Allen acknowledged the federal government may not be happy to lower Oregon’s federal income tax burden, but he has a solution. “We should consider seceding from the United States,” he said. Allen knows this approach has had a poor track record during the last 150 years, but he’s willing to take the risk if voters are willing to elect him. “We have to play hardball — we can’t go back and wait for some thing to happen,” he said. Allen isn’t expecting voters to agree with him. “I have no chance in hell of win ning,” he said. “I’m doing this to communicate with the people more than anything else.” Caleb Burns Psychologist Caleb Burns is on the Democratic ticket and on a crusade to reform Oregon’s schools. He’s been conducting private testing on students for years and believes the state has paid too much attention to politics and given too little attention to the actual needs of students. “Education reform is the largest News brief Senate approves $5,800 in special requests ASUO Student Senate members grudgingly dealt out chunks of the remaining $32,429 in surplus funds left for the year Wednesday night, rejecting three of the five special re quests for student fee money. They voted in favor of the two largest requests of the night, however, giving $3,000 to EMU Club Sports for a spring work shop program and $2,858 to the waste of money in this state,” Burns said. Burns believes the standards Oregon has adopted waste money and don’t effectively measure a stu dent’s ability to learn. He said that if elected, he would expect the state to prove that its school reforms have improved student per formances, but he added that his odds of winning are slim, at best. “I have no chance — zero,” Burns said. “I’m giving the public an op portunity to vote on this issue.” But Burns has other issues on the back burner. If elected, he wants to install weight scales in public libraries so readers know how much they weigh and smoke detectors in pub lic school bathrooms so kids stay off nicotine. And more detailed hand washing signs in restrooms would be nice too, he said. “I’m starting to realize how idiot ic some of the state’s approaches are,” Burns said. W. Ames Curtright The “flying governor” is running as a Republican, a decision he made after determining that main stream candidate and friend Kevin Mannix was not up to the task of being Oregon’s next governor. “There were a lot of things eating at me, and the other three candi dates weren’t cutting it,” Cur tright said. The candidate, a former multi millionaire, built Ames Research with $50,000 of his own money and patented a moving map tech nology for Global Positioning Sys tems. He said that, at one time, he was paid more than $16.4 million a year. Curtright said he is no longer a multimillionaire. But he has used what funds he has left to pay for his campaign for governor, which in cludes half-page ads in newspapers throughout Oregon. “I’m not taking any money from special interests,” he said. Curtright said he’s uncertain about his chances of being elected. “I’ve done everything I can to do it,” he said. “If God wants me to do it, I’ll be here.” If elected, Curtright plans to fo cus on treating mentally ill youth offenders instead of locking them up, protecting Oregon’s environ ment and constructing trade schools for high school students that teach life skills. “When voters open that voters pamphlet, they’re going to have to make a decision,” he said. CURTRIGHT UO Cultural Forum for unantici pated Willamette Valley Folk Festival costs. By a vote of 2-12, the senate turned down a $1,500 request by students from a pilot program run through the Survival Center to send two students to Thailand for six months to work in a refugee school. Most of the senators expressed support for the program but ques tioned the appropriateness of fund ing it because it seemed similar to a study abroad program. It was also unclear whether the students going would be enrolled at the Universi Lee R. Shindler Lee Shindler is the only of the five alternative candidates with previous political experience. Shindler, a Republican, served from 1982 to 1986 on the Scio City Council, and said he’s wanted to run for governor for years. “There’s a lot of things going on in state government I’d like to change,” Shindler said. He wants to revitalize the timber industry, decrease high school dropout rates and stay more con nected with voters if elected. Shindler said his chances of win ning were good until he started to be excluded from debates that other candidates were invited to. “If I’d been included in all the debates, I’d have a chance,” Shindler said. “But for some reason I haven’t been included.” Shindler isn’t included in the voters guide either. According to the Secretary of State’s office, can didates for governor must pay $1,000 to include their photograph and biography in the 76 page pam phlet. Out of 11 candidates, Shindler is the only one who did not pay the fee, but he maintains that voters still might choose him. “I’ve got to be better than I’ve ever been,” he said. “I always felt like I wanted to be governor — it seems like a fascinating job.” Roger Weidner Former prosecuting attorney and Republican Roger Weidner is running to change Oregon’s court system. “There’s a lot of abuse going on in the sys tem,” he said. “If your chil dren are taken or your proper ty is stolen from you by corrupt attorneys, you go to court and you lose.” Weidner, who headed Multnomah County’s Consumer Fraud Department al most 30 years ago, said he believes his experience with the court sys tem will appeal to voters. “I’ve got a good chance — I’m going to surprise a lot of voters,” Weidner said. Weidner is currently the presi dent of the Constitutional Defend ers’s chapter in Oregon and vice president of Oregon Judicial Watch, two watchdog groups that pay close attention to the court system. “Our state government has grown out of its mold,” Weidner said. “The child services division is an example of an extremely abusive agency.” Even if he loses the primary elec tion, Weidner said he plans to closely follow the November gener al election. “I will continue to do what I’m doing now,” he said. “I’ll support the Republican nominee, whoever he is.” E-mail community reporter Brook Reinhard atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com. ty while they were in Thailand. Sen. Justin Zuiker voted in favor of the request but suggested tabling the motion for later discussion. “I’m a little concerned that if we approve this now, it’s going to open the floodgates for other people who want to study abroad ... and can’t afford it,” Zuiker said. 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