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norTHWesT lABor press | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS is hiring! We’re looking for a bookkeeper / office manager. It’s a union-rep- resented job at a union wage of $23.28 to 26.67 an hour, perma- nent part-time hours with full benefits! For details and to apply, visit nwlaborpress.org/hiring NW Oregon Labor Council endorses MINDY GARLINGTON and MATT TRACY for Gladstone City Council Authorized and paid for by the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, 9955 SE Washington, St., Suite 305, Portland, OR November 2, 2018 | pAge 11 ...republican operative sends counterfeit union mailings to mislead voters called “Conscience of The Pro- gressives.” Campaign finance the deceptive mailers is identi- disclosures show that group cal to the label Fuse Washing- was set up by Glen Morgan, a former staffer at the anti-union ton uses. All the mailings follow the Freedom Foundation who is same fraudulent template: now executive director of the They say the Democratic can- Citizens Alliance For Property didate whose name is on the Rights. And Conscience of the November ballot is a “fake pro- Progressives is funded by a po- gressive,” and they urge voters litical action committee whose to write in the name of a “real main donor is Peter Zieve, an progressive” — in each case aerospace CEO who gave $1 the name of an actual candidate million to support Donald who ran for office with union Trump’s 2016 presidential backing in a previous election. campaign. On Oct. 22, Fuse, Washing- “Don’t be fooled by fake ton State Labor Council, and Progressives like Erin Frasier,” the other organizations whose says the 19th District mailing, logos were used filed a legal which displays the logo of AF- complaint with the Washington SCME Council 28. “Let’s State Public Disclosure Com- write in a real progressive: mission — the state agency Teresa Purcell.” Purcell, who ran for the same office in 2016 that enforces laws governing with AFSCME’s endorsement, candidates, campaigns and lob- isn’t running this year, doesn’t byists. The complaint charges want any write-in votes, and is that Morgan violated Washing- completely in support of fellow ton law by making a false Democrat Frasier, who is chal- claim by implying that the lenging Republican incumbent unions endorsed these write-in candidates. Jim Walsh. “These ads … are a blatant In fine print, the mailings attempt to mislead voters who say they’re paid for by a group From Page 1 might otherwise vote for the Democratic candidate in each race into casting ‘throwaway’ votes to the benefit of the GOP,” wrote attorney Dmitri Iglitzin in the complaint. Not only that, but these were “willful” violations of the law, made “with actual malice,” the complaint charges. Morgan should be very familiar with election laws, because in the last few years he has been a one-man campaign law en- forcer, filing scores of com- plaints against Democratic can- didates and organizations if they were late in submitting campaign finance disclosures or committed other technical violations. “This is dirty politics at its worst and we are absolutely livid about it,” said WSLC President Jeff Johnson on his organization’s web site. “These Republican political operatives must think their candidates can’t win unless they cheat and trick voters. It’s shameless and disgraceful.” — Don McIntosh Municipal broadband now before portland city council Rob Etulain 360.666.8944 12/31/18 2018 Multnomah County commission- ers approved it. So did the city councils of Gresham, Troutdale, Fairview and Wood Village. Now they’re all waiting for Portland City Council to authorize its share of funding for a study of what it would cost to install fiber-optic cable door to door. That would determine whether a system of public-owned Internet access is feasible at a lower cost than ex- isting providers like Comcast, (and 40 times as fast). The Municipal Broadband PDX campaign, headed by Mult- nomah County IT worker (and union officer) Michael Hanna, is backed by the Northwest Oregon Labor Council and five other la- bor organizations. In conversations with City Hall staff, Hanna was told ini- tially that Portland City Council would authorize $100,000 for the study in a mid-year budget ad- justment slated for a Nov. 7 vote. Now, mayor’s office staff has asked the campaign to instead submit a grant request for consid- eration from a special appropria- tions fund that will be awarded Nov. 29.
