...New Yorker drops millions in two Oregon ballot measures
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recent campaign finance report, Oct.
2, showed at least $30,000 more.
“My question would be, ‘Has he
ever set foot in Oregon?’ ” said Ore-
gon AFL-CIO President Tom Cham-
berlain. “The thing about Oregonians
which folks on the East Coast don’t
understand is we hate being told what
to do.”
Similar sentiments prompted Mon-
tana Governor Brian Schweitzer to
challenge Rich to a debate. Rich de-
cline to respond. Montana is one of
the states where Rich’s measures cir-
culated. The measures qualified for
the ballot, but were disqualified after
the Montana Supreme Court found a
pattern of widespread fraud in signa-
ture gathering efforts.
While there’s no evidence of a sim-
ilar degree of fraud in Oregon this
time, critics of the two Oregon meas-
ures say the measures wouldn’t have
qualified for the ballot without Rich’s
riches.
“There’s no support for Measure
48 from the grass roots,” said Becca
Uherbelau, spokesperson for Defend
Oregon, a coalition of over 100 labor
and community groups that formed to
oppose Measure 48 and Measure 41,
which would cut income taxes, mostly
for the wealthiest.
While Rich is very private and
hardly ever grants press interviews, a
group called Ballot Initiative Strategy
Center put together enough research
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large deposit of cash into the Oregon
campaign organizations. That won’t
be known until the next reports are
due, shortly before the deadline for
mail-in ballots.
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and Employers Rights; Grover
Norquist’s group Americans for Tax
Reform; and the Club for Growth, a
conservative group targeting Republi-
cans who are perceived as too moder-
ate.
How will Oregonians vote on the
two measures if Rich funds a flurry of
TV ads? Uherbelau says its plausible
that Rich may have waited until after
the reporting period to make his next
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