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tax? Or an increase in vehicle registra-
tion and other user fees?
Metsger said that doing nothing
would result in gridlock — and cost
the state thousands of jobs and hun-
dreds of millions of dollars a year.
“We have to make sure our econ-
omy moves — so that our economy
doesn’t move somewhere else,” he
said.
Metsger is promoting a combina-
tion of both a fuel tax and registration
fee increase, but he said some politi-
cians “are running to the exits” when-
ever transportation funding is broach-
ed. He said transportation funding
should be a litmus test for construction
unions as they make political endorse-
ments. “There are a lot of people run-
ning for office who say they support
transportation. You need to ask them
what that means,” he said.
Oregon House Majority Leader
Dave Hunt said his top priority for the
2009 Legislature will be transporta-
tion. “This will never poll well,” he
said. “People don’t connect economy
to roads. But you can’t have one with-
out the other.”
Senate Majority Leader Richard De-
vlin said he would support a gas tax in-
crease, but was unsure of what support
he had among his Democratic caucus.
“We have to be smart about what-
ever we adopt. We will have to make it
clear what we’re buying with that gas
tax,” he said.
If somebody can make that case, De-
vlin said the Democratic caucus will
certainly consider it.
Former Oregon AFL-CIO president
Tim Nesbitt, a top aide to Gov. Ted Ku-
longoski, said the governor has a full
agenda as he heads into his last two
years in office. The governor, Nesbitt
said, will be seeking input from labor in
shaping and moving that agenda, which
includes energy, health care, transporta-
tion, and workforce training.
Nesbitt said the advantages Oregon
has, such as its relatively low cost land
and natural resources, a diverse work-
force, and its location on the Pacific
Rim, put the state in a good position to
grow. “I would summarize that as the
nation goes, Oregon will go one better,
or even two better if we play our cards
right in shaping our future,” Nesbitt
said.
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elected John Endicott, business man-
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290, as president of the OSBCTC, and
they tapped Dave Town, assistant busi-
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