MILLION MOMS MARCH,
PICNIC ON MOM’S DAY
of only 10 percent pro-environment votes has
earned him campaign cash from developers.
Meisner’s leading campaign contributor is
“Celebrating Youth and the Promise of
the local Giustina family of loggers, land and
Peace” is the theme speakers and musicians
real estate speculators and developers. In two
will embrace this Sunday when Eugene partic-
other key council races, the state’s leading pro-
ipates in the national Million Mom’s March
sprawl lobbying group — the Homebuilder
for Mother’s Day. Beginning at 2:30 pm,
Association PAC’s “Oregonians for
moms, kids — even dads and friends — will
Affordable Housing” — has made major do-
gather at the EWEB Plaza fountain then march
nations to Maurie Denner and Tom Slocum.
— or rather, stroll — to gather at the Owen
Here’s a look at how pro-
Rose Garden for a picnic and music.
sprawl and anti-environmental
The march is intended to speak out
interests are backing their
against gun violence. In Washington,
slate of candidates for the
D.C., more than a million people are
Eugene City Council with
expected to gather the same day
big bucks, according to
under the theme, “Halt the
reports of contributions
Assault.” The Assault Weapons
made by April 1:
Ban is up in September, and the
Scott
Meisner,
NRA is currently lobbying hard to
Ward 7, reported $4,256 in
keep it from being reinstated.
contributions. The Giustina
The Eugene march focuses on hon-
family gave Meisner $1,250
oring youth and youth groups who
Tom Slocum
through their various compa-
work for peace. Mayoral candidate
nies. The Duncan & Brown real estate analysis
Kitty Piercy will be among the speakers ad-
firm gave $500. The Eugene Firefighters
dressing those gathered at EWEB. After 3 pm,
union gave $500. Republican Mayor Jim
the march begins toward the Owen Rose
Torrey and the Ulum Group, a conservative
Garden for a picnic and more music, led by
lobbying and PR firm, each gave $100.
bagpiper Wylie McKinnon and special grand
Tom Slocum, Ward 1, reported $3,240 in
marshalls.
donations. An association of commercial in-
A free van shuttle will take picnickers from
vestment real estate agents (CID) gave $700.
the Rose Garden back to EWEB. The event is
Real Estate broker Ward Beck gave $250 and
free, but those wishing to donate to the Million
brokers Robert Nelson, John Pennington, Bill
Mom March to offset local costs and support
Baxter, Artie Gilad, Mike Miller, and Kenneth
the national agenda may send a check to
Kime gave $100 each. The Homebuilders
Million Mom March of Lane County, 30 East
PAC gave $500, contractor Don McCrae gave
Broadway, Box 13, Eugene 97401. — AS
$200 and contractor Fred Wittkop gave $500.
DEVELOPERS FUND
Maurie Denner, Ward 2, reported raising
MEISNER, SLOCUM, DENNER
$5,825. The Homebuilders PAC and the
Chamber gave $750 each. Other big contribu-
Eugene Councilor Scott Meisner has
tors include $1,000 from Kay Toolson, CEO
claimed to support the environment in his
of Manaco Coach and a major Republican
campaign for re-election. But Meisner’s
Party contributor, $200 from Liberty Bank
Oregon League of Conservation Voters record
manager Mike Drennan, $250 from Cascade
Title Co. owner Tom McMahon and $250
from J. Douglas McKay, lumber mill manager.
— Alan Pittman
HART WILLIAMS GETS
LEFT OUT OF PAMPHLET
The Voters’ Pamphlet that arrived in the
mail last week does not include a column of
words or a photo of Oregon House District 8
candidate Hart Williams, and he’s irked.
“Last Thursday friends began calling me to
say: ‘Hart! You’re not in the Voters’
Pamphlet!’ I got mine in the mail, and sure
enough, nothing,” he says. “This was a ‘Pearl
Harbor’ kind of emotional blow: The legs had
been cut out from under my campaign.”
Hart says he’d decided to save money in
his “under $2,000” run for office, and “didn’t
feel like paying the $300 ‘graft’ they demand
for inclusion of one’s mug shot. In the past,
there would appear a blank space saying that
the candidate had declined — which I’d
counted on — but this time, no payee, no exis-
tee.”
Hart says Oregon statutes (ORS 251.165)
require that the secretary of state include all
candidates, but he was told that he was in-
cluded in the listings of candidates on Page 4.
To make up for the omission, Hart says he
plans to “make a spectacle of myself in every
possible manner” and “make as much noise as
possible to try and overcome the new ‘rule’
that only political ‘insiders’ are interviewed
for endorsements, are included in Voters’
Pamphlets, or are taken seriously by most of
our local media.”
Hart is running against Paul Holvey and
Mitzi Colbath in the race and this week held a
press conference attacking both opponents.
His chief complaint is that Holvey’s campaign
is being heavily financed by money from
Washington state.— TJT
SMART GUY IN TOWN
ON NORTHWEST TOUR
How do we actualize true security in a
world of war and terrorism? One person offer-
ing a new vision is Ira Shorr, national field di-
rector of Physicians for Social Responsibility
(PSR). Shorr is on a Northwest tour and will
be in Eugene speaking at 7 pm Tuesday, May
11 at Lawrence Hall, Room 177 at UO.
He is also known as a talented satirist, cur-
rently touring as “Senator Jess Trussme, from
a state that cannot be named for security rea-
sons and candidate for the White House in
2004 — running to the right of George Bush.”
Shorr will also appear at noon May 12 in
Albany at the First Christian Church, 432
Ferry St.; at 7 pm May 12 in Corvallis at the
Oddfellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd; and at 7:30 pm
May 13 in Salem at Cone Chapel on the WU
campus.
Shorr is currently championing the House
of Representatives Concurrent Resolution
392, calling for adoption of PSR’s Sensible,
Multilateral American Response to Terrorism
(SMART) security platform. This resolution
calls for congressional action to “strengthen
• If you’ve ever worked in a windowless office space under harsh fluorescent lights, you’ll appreciate EW’s gratitude toward artist Dan Hitchcock. Over a recent weekend, Hitchcock
conducted a stunning transformation of our production room, covering the concrete workspace walls with a mural of blue skies, meadowland and dense forests. Says EW Art
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