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The June 1 luncheon was a fund-raiser, but The luncheon raised $30,600 needed for pro this affair wasn’t exactly like most others of its fessional polling. According to Jaime Balboa, kind, for behind the niceties and the polite BRO’s executive director, the gay and lesbian chitchat loomed had news. And everyone there rights organization wants to “test language” to knew it. M à ia 1730 N.E. 10th Avenue Portland, O R 97212 Prudential Northwext Proporti« http://www. pru-nw.com May 13-21 : — V. M on Lim ited Edition “the only shop that comes to you” 4235 S E W oodstock Blvd. • Portland. OR 97206 503 774-3531 - N ew purchase 1 0 0 % equity loans Pre-qualification by phon e or fax R efin an ce/cash o u t Pre-approved loans R esiden tial, com m ercial & investm ent property A p p o in tm en ts at your convenience Office 297-9900 Even i ngs/Weekends 780-1561 “Vm availab le when you are ! ” AA A M O RTGAGE Advocates 9 9 0 0 S. W. 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The hundreds who attended the seventh annual Oregonians Against Discrimination Luncheon, sponsored by Basic Rights Oregon, want to reach voters before the O C A does. Eric Friedenwald-Fishman, who gave closing remarks at the luncheon, said there are two things people can do to keep bigotry out of Oregon. First, people must vote if the O C A measure is to he defeated, he said. Pollsters have estimated that nearly 1.4 mil lion voters will participate in the November election. Strategists for BRO say they want approximately 700,000 “no” votes. But voting alone won’t do the trick, Frieden wald-Fishman explained, introducing the sec ond piece of his proposal. The creative director and president of the public relations firm Metropolitan Group, Friedenwald-Fishman stood in front of the well- dressed crowd at the end of the hour-long lun cheon. His job: to ask for money. Using humor helped. “Make (the donation] on your Visa. You won’t even notice,” Friedenwald-Fishman sug- determine what its message should be and to find out what educational efforts are needed. BRO officials expect that more than $1.7 million will be needed to defeat the O C A ’s mea sure. (Nearly $4 million was spent to defeat OCA-sponsored measures in the early 1990s.) Ï n 1992 and 1994, the O C A tried to convince Oregonians to vote for a constitutional amendment that essentially sought to legalize discrimination based on sexual orientation. In 1992, the O C A ’s Measure 9 failed to win, snagging only 42 percent of the votes. A 3 percent to 4 percent victory is consid ered a landslide in races like these, according to Balboa. In 1994 the vote was closer. Measure 13 passed in 25 of 36 Oregon counties, hut the pro posal was ultimately defeated by a 4 percent margin. The Student Protection Act, if passed, would not make a change to Oregon’s constitution. The initiative seeks to make a statutory change in Oregon law. The act would preclude schixils (including community colleges) from “the in struction of behaviors relating to homosexuality and bisexuality,” in a manner that “encourages, promotes or sanctions such behaviors.” he O C A , joined by the Oregon chapter of the Christian Coalition in support of the Student Protection Act, is beginning to appear more frequently in the media. T
