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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.
The senate also rejected two re
quests, totaling $117, by the YWCA
because it appeared the group had
unused funds in other accounts
within its budget.
— Kara Cogswell
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