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Now & Then
In June your beloved editor is reminded that
another year is completed in his own cycle. Change
is occurring here at The Edge; the humble Ms. Sally
is off to the high mountains of eastern Oregon to help
Smoky watch over the remaining forests. Fear not,
she will continue to send her renderings for these
pages, though perhaps not her regular column,
regularly. We will miss her grandly. Especially at
paste-up and proof-reading time. So be forewarned.
If July’s Edge looks like your old high school paper
it will be because the Beloved Reverend and a bunch
of beer-drinking loonies lacked the quiet strength and
clear eyes o f Ms. Sally.
Yes, this is a cry for help; it will take a whole
village to put out a paper.
Well, let’s look at politics, shall we? Now, stop that
giggling, these people are serious. Bob “you can call
me Bob Dole” Dole has quit the highest office in the
land held by a Republican, to run full time for the
highest office in the land held by a Democrat, leaving
Trent Lott (R-Fla.) in charge of the Senate. He
claims to be doing it for his country. Perhaps Mr.
Clinton should turn things over to A1 Gore so that he
can focus on the campaign, and won’t have to waste
all that time doing the job he was elected to do. It
would perhaps be better to elect two people for each
office, one to campaign and one to do the job. Yes,
we have all read extensively about the need for
campaign reform, and no, it’s not a very “sexy”
issue, but when you consider the lobbies and PACs,
the millions spent on even statewide races, it
becomes clear that “we the people” are not getting
what we vote and pay for, i.e. functional
government. The gifted Texan talker Molly Ivins is
fond of regularly quoting the Constitution; she
writes, “It says right at the top of the Constitution
what government is supposed to do”: “Form a more
perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquillity, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings
of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.”
How did we get to; “Spin control to avoid the
ripple effect”? How did we get to Packwood,
Rostenkowski, and, of course, Wes Cooley? What
is with that guy ? Is he a wimp? Is he a nut? Is he a
fool? Is he history ? All of the above?
In Plutarch’s Lives, Pittacus, one of the Seven
Sages of Greece, says, “The best state is that in
which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and
good men are not allowed to refuse oil ice.” If we
have really gotten to the level of a beauty contest,
why not just put the ballots in People magazine,
USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, and leave
the names blank; fill in your dream team. Silly ?
Perhaps, but sillier than what we seriously do each
election? It would completely eliminate campaigns
and the need for their reform. Everyone would run
on their record and we would all be up tor grabs, like
the draft. You would have term limits in a heartbeat.
Lobbying, stealth campaigns, and advertising would
still be there but they would be focused on the
voters, not the politicians; we would be electing
ourselves. Yes, there would be some dumb choices,
people like, oh, Sonny Bono, would be in Congress,
but we could survive that. More likely, we would
have “C her” D-Cal., or Charles Barkley R-Penn.,
and that could be refreshing. Just a thought.
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Editor/Publisher/Janitor: The Beloved
Reverend Billy Lloyd HulLs
A ssistant Editor/Publisher/G raphics
Editor: The Ffumble Ms. Sally Louise Lackaff
Copy Editor/Science Editor/Volce of
Reason/fndian Country/Uncle
Mike/etc.: Michael Burgess
W ildlife Informant/Music Reporter at
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Education Editor Peter Lindsey
Improvisational Engineer: Dr. Karkeys
Wine Expert: Jim Anderson
Political Consultant Kathleen Knishas
Environmental News: Kim Bosse
Mr. Baseball: Jeff Larson
Local Colour Ron Logan
June's Garden: June Kroft
Ad Sales: Katherine Mace
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The question is; will we be able to work out the
solutions to our most pressing problems as a
nation at the ballot box?
Will we get a rational environmental policy that
quits subsidizing polluting companies, that quits
giving our resources away to mining companies at
1800's prices; building taxpayer financed roads
into our forests so that they can be clear-cut by
corporations that make billions in profit each
year, and refuse to consider alternatives to
pesticides, herbicide, and the standard
clear-cutting of industrial forestry ?
Will we be able to work with the energy
corporations, oil; w ill the double hull be
manditory on tankers, nuclear; will clean-ups get
co-ordinated instead of the current random crisis
management mode, hydro; will it ever be the right
time to talk about dismantling certain dams, solar:
oh, sorry, they regretfully come under "small
business", ever wonder why?
Will our environmental policies ever be solution
based, rather than regulation based? Can we keep
the small farmer, rancher, logger, out of the
problem? They are part of the solution. It is
industrial farming, ranching and logging, and yes,
fishing, that need our attention. And other,
simpler things like resource recovery, re-cycling.
We, the people, will work our butts off to save
resources, but the packaging industry will spend
millions to fight bottle bills and standards to
simplify resource recovery for the consumer.
Will the budget be balanced in favor of the
people of this country or the corporations? Will
the work environment be healthy, a living
minimum wage? Health care for those who can't
afford their own, that is portable? Tax breaks for
small business? A simpler and fairer income tax
system?
Will our personal liberties be protected? Our
privacy in our homes, and our bodies defended or
threatened?
Will this billion dollar black hole called the
war on drugs ever be over? The Cali cartell makes
a reported 3 billion a year; we spend 7 billion
failing to even slow the flow. On the other hand we
have reduced the rate of nicotine use in this
country from 50% of the population to 25% in
twenty years by education alone. Our alcohol
problems, though overwhelming, are being dealt
with best with education, coupled with a demand
for personal responsibilty.
These and other questions will be debated this
year, by not just by the politicians but by the
people and the corporations. The point is the
people get to vote. A corporation may try to buy a
politician, a politician may try to fool the people,
but the people decide the future of the politicians
and the corporations in a capitalist democracy.
Fun, huh?
1. Abortion Procedure Ban: HR 1833. f
Ban I ate-term abortions involving partial delivery o f the Ictus before
completing the abortion, except where such an abortion is necessary to
save the life o f the mother Passed 54 - 44. 12/7/95
2. Abortion Training: HR 3019. amendment vote
M ake federal financial assistance available to hospitals that lose medical
accreditation because they refused to provide abortions or provide training
in abortion services Adopted 63 - 37. 3 /I9 //6
3. Federal Health Policy Abortions: HR 2020. amendment vote
Prohibit federal employees or their families from receiving abortion services
through their federal health insurance policies except when the life o f the
woman would be endangered, or in cases o f rape or incest
Rejected 45 - 49. 8/5/95
Hatfield, M a rk (OR-R), Sr Senator
Wyden, Ron (OR-D), Jr Senator
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1. Abortion Procedure Ban: HR 1833. bill passage
Ban late-term abortions involving partial delivery o f the fetus before
completing the abortion, except where such an abortion is necessary to
save the life o f the mother Passed 286 - 129, 3/28/96
Remove language that would prohibit federal programs or stales from
witholding funds or accreditation from medical training programs (hat do
not offer training in abortion procedures Rejected 189 - 235. 8/3/95
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3. Federal Health Policy Abortions; HR 2020. amendment vote
Remove language that would prohibit federal employees or their families
from receiving abortion services through their federal health insurance
policies except when the life o f the woman would be endangered
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Kurse, Elizabeth (OR-D), District 1
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Cooley, W'es (OR-R), District 2
Yes
No
No
Seat Vacant. District 3
N /A
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N /A
DeFazio, Peter (OR-D). District 4
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Bunn, Jim (OR-R), District 5
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