Campaign finance
reformers push
for money limits
BY BRAD CAIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALEM — Advocates of cam
paign finance reform hope the pub
licity surrounding former Rep. Dan
Doyle’s alleged misuse of campaign
money will boost their case for lim
its on political contributions.
The issue arose Tbesday
when a Senate panel opened hear
ings on proposals to allow limits
to be placed on the amount
of money that can be contributed
to candidates.
At the same time, a group of
reform advocates filed a proposed
initiative to take the issue to
voters next year if the Legislature
won’t act.
The state Supreme Court has
ruled that the Constitution’s free
speech protections prohibit capping
donations, making Oregon one of
five states with no limits.
But backers of contribution lim
its believe the public will demand
change this year because of Doyle,
the once-powerful Salem Republi
can who resigned from the House
on Jan. 31.
Doyle left amid allegations that
he illegally diverted more than
$60,000 in campaign money to per
sonal use and submitted false finan
cial reports about his November re
election race.
Testifying before the Senate Rules
Committee, Norman TUrrill
from the League of Women Voters
said the Doyle controversy has
“raised doubts in the public’s mind
about trusting legislators with
campaign funds.”
“Unfortunately, this had led
to questions about the ability of leg
islators to handle the state’s budg
et,” said Tlirrill, who is part of a
coalition that filed the proposed
initiative Tbesday.
Tlirrill and others said the cost
of running for seats in the Legisla
ture has skyrocketed, forcing law
makers to spend a lot of their time
trying to raise campaign dollars
from special interests.
Sen. Kurt Schrader, D-Canby,
called the controversy involving
Doyle “a classic case that has just
arisen.” He supports limits both on
campaign contributions and expen
ditures, saying big money interests
far outweigh average citizens in the
political process.
“I would argue that if campaign
contributions are limited, there
is less opportunity for members
to use those funds for other purpos
es,” he said.
But Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day,
argued that the lack of contribution
limits didn’t come into play in
Doyle’s alleged misconduct.
“The tragedy playing out in the
House will be dealt with under ex
isting statutes,” Ferrioli said.
Voters in 1994 overwhelmingly
passed a law to impose limits
on campaign donations, but in
1997 the Supreme Court overturned
the referendum.
The court said that putting a cap
on how much individuals or groups
can donate violates their right to
freedom of expression, a position
supported by the American Civil
Liberties Union.
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Drinking coffee may help
protect against liver cancer
BY RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. — That hot
cup of coffee may do more than just
provide a tasty energy boost. It might
also help prevent the most common
type of liver cancer.
A study of more than 90,000
Japanese found that people who
drank coffee daily or nearly every day
had half the liver cancer risk of those
who never drank coffee.
The American Cancer Society esti
mates that 18,920 new cases of liver
cancer were diagnosed in the United
States last year and some 14,270
people died of the illness. Causes in
clude hepatitis, cirrhosis, excess alco
hol consumption and diseases caus
ing chronic inflammation of the liver.
Animal studies have suggested a
protective association of coffee with
liver cancer, so the research team led
by Monami Inoue of the National
Cancer Center in Tokyo analyzed a
10-year public health study to deter
mine coffee use by people diagnosed
with liver cancer and people who did
not have cancer.
They found the likely occurrence of
liver cancer in people who never or al
most never drank coffee was 547.2
cases per 100,000 people over 10 years.
But for people who drank coffee
daily, the risk was 214.6 cases per
100,000, the researchers report in this
week’s issue of the Journal of the Na
tional Cancer Institute.
They found the protective effect oc
curred in people who drank one to two
cups of coffee a day and increased at
three to four cups. They were unable
to compare the effect of regular and de
caffeinated coffee, however, because
decaf is rarely consumed in Japan.
It’s the caffeine in coffee that makes
some people nervous, and it has been
shown in other studies to prompt men
tal alertness in many people. Some
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