Oregon’s tax system and how to fix it. Second-time
Republican challenger Kelly Lovelace aims to improve the
district by cutting regulations and lowering taxes. We’re
going with Barnhart.
State Rep. District 12
John Lively (D)
Democratic Rep. Terry Beyer is not seeking re-election
and two Springfield men are battling it out in a race that
could upset the evenly divided Oregon House. Both
Democrat John Lively and Republican Joe Pishioneri are
well-known in the community and the race could be close,
so remarkably big bucks are flowing in, particularly to
Pishioneri from timber, mining and business interests, both
locally and nationally. If you like the politics of the Koch
Brothers and the Tea Party, Pishioneri is your guy. We prefer
the more forward-thinking Lively, and his moderate but
progressive values line up more closely with Springfield in
this century. Beyer backs Lively. Also, Pishioneri’s campaign
was disturbing from the beginning with its deceptive push-
polling, and it hasn’t gotten much better. His misguided and
negative campaign with its irrelevant and erroneous
statements reflects on his judgment and credibility.
State Rep. District 13
Nancy Nathanson (D)
Democrat Nancy Nathanson is facing perpetual
candidate and karaoke regular Mark Callahan in the race
for District 13 (that would be Oregon’s District 13, which
is most of north and east Eugene, not the one that the rest
of Panem thought was destroyed in The Hunger Games).
Callahan, a Republican this time around, ran for president
earlier this year; he is anti-abortion, anti-plastic bag ban
and seems to think saving spotted owls is a scam.
Nathanson has scored well on the Oregon League of
Conservation Voters’ (OLCV) scorecard (87 percent in
2011, down from her high of 95 percent in 2007) and got
the thumbs up from education groups, gay rights groups,
transportation and pro-choice groups. We give her a
thumbs up, too.
State Rep. District 14
Val Hoyle (D)
This election has a bunch of no-brainers and in this race
Val Holye is the easy pick. The most familiar endorsement
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on her opponent Dwight Coon’s list is the dude who
cheerfully tells us that “Eggs are cheaper in the country
and so are cars, trucks, motorhomes and trailers” on local
TV commercials. The former Junction City mayor’s
endorsements also include pro-pesticide Oregonians for
Food and Shelter and Oregon Right to Life. Coon provides
a link to the anti-EmX Our Money Our Transit (which he
typos as Your Transit). While we still think Hoyle, and
fellow Dems Holvey, Nathanson and Barnhart, were
wrong to endorse Andy Stahl against Pete Sorenson in the
county commissioners’ race earlier this year, we also think
that Hoyle’s done good things for Oregon in her time in
office, like being ahead of the game on health care reform
and being pro-education. And she has a decent rating on
environmental issues from the OLCV.
Lane County Circuit Court Judge, Pos. 7
Alan Leiman (WRITE-IN)
After interviewing all four candidates for this position,
we’re impressed at the quality of the contenders and
optimistic for the future of this court. We’re again
endorsing Alan Leiman (he ran and lost against Debra
Vogt in 2006), in part because of his broad socio-political