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The OCA loses in Gresham, but scores victories
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WHEEL ALIGNMENTS & TIRES
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McRobert described the OCA’s effort in
oters in Gresham narrowly defeated,
Gresham as a “stealth campaign,” noting that the
due to a technicality, the latest ef­
people who gathered signatures for the initiative
fort by the Oregon Citizens Alli­
were brought in from Salem and Wilsonville, and
ance to legislate discrim ination
that only one of the city’s 66 churches had con­
against gay men and lesbians, but
tributed
the anti-gay group scored victories in four
other money to the anti-gay-rights campaign
fund.
Oregon communities in the Tuesday, May 17,
“They had absolutely no support or contribu­
election.
tions from locals,” McRobert said. ‘They held no
In Gresham, with all but the absentee ballots
rallies, nothing. They relied on mailings and
counted, the OCA’s measure had received 7,188
phone banks—nobody ever came forward.”
yes votes to 7,108 no votes. But according to the
city’s charter, the measure needed a 60 percent
lsewhere in Oregon, four local OCA initia­
voter approval to pass.
tives were approved. In Roseburg, an anti­
Gresham voters defeated Measure 9 in 1992,
gay-rights measure drew 2,410 yes votes to
and Tuesday’s effort marked the first time OCA
1,317 no votes. In Oakridge, a local measure drew
members had tried to get one of their local initia­
362 yes votes to 344 no votes. In Cottage Grove,
tives passed in a city where Measure 9 was voted
1,083 people
down.
voted yes,
G re sh a m
while 813
Mayor Gussie
voted no. And
M c R o b e r t
in Veneta, a
said, T h u rs­
local measure
day, May 19,
drew 301 yes
it was too early
votes to 243
to celeb rate
no votes.
the results of
Si nce
the Gresham
1992, when
vote.
its statewide
“T h a t ’s
measure was
premature, un­
defeated,
the
til we get the
OCA has suc-
absentee bal­
c e s s f u 11 y
lots counted,”
pushed d is­
McRobert
crim
inatory
said.
“We
measures in
know that it
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O regon
did not pass in
communities. The local initiatives bar cities from
Gresham, because they didn’t get the 60 percent.
enacting anti-discrimination protections for sexual
But I would like to see them not even get 50 plus
it
minorities. They also forbid cities from spending
one.
public money in ways that serve to “promote
The mayor said she did not know how many
homosexuality.”
absentee ballots remained to be counted Thurs­
A state law that went into effect in August
day. The Multnomah County Elections Division
1993 prohibits local discriminatory laws. And, in
said about 7,000 total absentee ballots were re­
about half of the 23 cities where the “Son of Nine”
turned, but it was undetermined by press time
measures have passed, city officials have vowed
how many of those were sent in by Gresham
not to enforce them.
residents.
V
E
McRobert described the OCA’s
effort in Gresham as a stealth
campaign,” noting that the people
who gathered signatures fo r the
initiative were brought in from
Salem and Wilsonville, and that
only one o f the city’s 66 churches
had contributed money to the anti-
gay-rights campaign fund.
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