Oregon AFL-CIO endorses two
ballot referrals: Measures 49, 50
SALEM — The Oregon AFL-CIO
is getting behind a land-use reform
proposal and a cigarette tax increase to
fund health care — two ballot meas-
ures that will go before voters in No-
vember. Both are referrals from the
Oregon Legislature.
This year’s Ballot Measure 49
would modify 2004’s Ballot Measure
37 — a property rights measure that
voters approved by a three to two mar-
gin. Measure 37 said governments
would have to pay land owners when-
ever new land use restrictions reduce
property value — or else not enforce
the new rules on the old owners.
Measure 49 limits those special
rights to property owned by individu-
als, not corporations, and it reinstates
local zoning restrictions and state land
use rules against putting large residen-
tial developments on farm or forest
land. Under Measure 49, individuals
could build up to three homes on their
property if they were allowed to do
that when they bought it, or up to 10
homes if the new rules caused sub-
stantial loss of property value.
Measure 49 also expands the Mea-
sure 37 property rights, allowing
landowners to transfer the building
rights to new owners and surviving
spouses.
“Oregonians were sold a bill of
goods when they voted for Measure
37,” said Oregon AFL-CIO President
Tom Chamberlain. “They thought this
was about houses individuals could
build on their own land. They didn’t
think this was about subdivisions.”
After voters approved Measure 37,
many timber companies filed claims
seeking to put housing subdivisions
on forest land.
“Measure 37 destroys what makes
Oregon unique,” Chamberlain said.
“If big timber is allowed to make
more money from developing the land
than making wood products, that’s
gonna cost us jobs.”
Besides the Oregon AFL-CIO,
Measure 49 has the backing of the
state’s three largest public employee
unions — the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employ-
ees, , the Oregon Education Associa-
tion, and Service Employees Interna-
tional Union Local 503, plus the
Oregon State Fire Fighters Council,
and state and local Farm Bureaus and
many other groups. It’s opposed by
the authors of Measure 37 and many
timber companies.
Ballot Measure 50 would raise the
state cigarette tax 84.5 cents a pack, to
equal Washington’s tax, and use the
proceeds to pay for health care for all
uninsured children and 10,000 low-in-
come adults, and tobacco use preven-
tion campaigns.
“We have almost 600,000 Oregoni-
ans without health care,” explains
Chamberlain, “and 117,000 of them
are kids. You have to ask the question,
‘Who pays for their health care now?’
Those of us who have health insur-
ance pay for it, indirectly.”
Hospitals shift some of the cost of
treating the uninsured to insurance
companies, Chamberlain said, and tax-
payers foot the bill when emergency
responders are called to deal with pre-
ventable medical emergencies from
untreated conditions of the uninsured.
The Oregon AFL-CIO fought hard
to pass the kids health program this
year in the Legislature.
Now it’s gearing up its political
network to campaign for the passage
of both measures.
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