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June 3, 2016 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
...Oregon primary
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Wheeler and Bailey, but
Wheeler was backed by a num-
ber of building trades unions
and the Columbia Pacific Build-
ing Trades Council, and Bailey
was backed by UFCW Local
555, Portland Association of
Teachers, and the Portland Po-
lice Association. AFSCME en-
dorsed both candidates. For City
Council, labor-endorsed incum-
bent Amanda Fritz won outright
with 70 percent, while labor-en-
dorsed incumbent Steve Novick
got the most votes in the pri-
mary—43 percent—but will
face small business owner
Chloe Eudaly in a November
runoff. Meanwhile, voters ap-
proved labor-endorsed Measure
26-173, a four-year 10-cent-per-
gallon gas tax, by 52 percent;
the measure will raise $16 mil-
lion a year for street mainte-
nance and safety improvements.
CITY OF SALEM
Sally Cook — a member of
SEIU Local 503 and a graduate
of the Oregon Labor Candidates
School — beat incumbent War-
ren Bednarz for a seat on Salem
City Council in southwest
Salem’s Ward 7.
CITY OF SPRINGFIELD
Leonard Stoehr—a union rep at
Teamsters Local 206—won
with 55 percent of the vote
against incumbent Dave Ralston
for the Ward 4 seat on Spring-
field City Council.
CITY OF EUGENE
Clair Syrett, an Oregon Nurses
Association union rep and
member of Teamsters Local
223, won re-election to Eugene
City Council, Ward 7. She ran
unopposed.
LOCAL BALLOT MEASURES
Measure 3-476, a Clackamas
County Emergency Radio
Bond, and Measure 3-477, a
City of Milwaukie Library
bond, both passed with endorse-
ments from labor. Labor-backed
bond measures for Mt. Hood
Community College and Cen-
tennial School District were de-
feated.