MAY 6, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
Bud Pierce wants Oregon to go back in time
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The way Bud Pierce sees
it, the good people in Oregon
are being constrained.
And if the clock could be
turned back about 30 years,
that would be fi ne with Pierce
as well.
Pierce is a Republican
nominee in the Oregon gov-
ernor race, going up against
Allen Alley, Bruce Cuff, Bob
Niemeyer and Bob Forthan
in the May 17 primary. The
winner of the primary will
face the Democrat nominee
– likely current governor Kate
Brown – in the Nov. 8 special
election.
Since Gov. John Kitzha-
ber resigned amid a political
scandal in February 2015 and
Brown took over, repeated
bombshells have shaken up a
number of key leaders in state
agencies. There has also been
the continued fallout of the
Oregon vs. Oracle battle over
the doomed Cover Oregon
healthcare debacle.
“I believe in the capabil-
ity of the people, at all levels,
in and out of government,”
Pierce said last week during a
meeting with the Keizertimes
editorial board. “We need to
turn the people loose and fo-
cus on what the target is.”
Pierce, an oncologist by
trade who served as grand
marshal in last year’s fi nal Fes-
tival of Lights Holiday Parade,
believes there is a correla-
tion between employment,
substance abuse and mental
health issues.
“When people have that
anchor (a job), they tend to be
okay,” Pierce said. “Every Ore-
gonian should have the digni-
ty of having a great job. If they
don’t have that anchor, they
do a lot to replace that. The
mental health issue is huge. It
all blends into substance abuse.
The fi nal piece to focus on
is to help us all live together.
When we come into confl ict,
how do we resolve that?”
Pierce readily acknowledg-
es he is “feisty and combative”
and has surrounded himself on
his campaign with such peo-
ple. He said that goes back to
his medical background.
“I developed that as a doc-
tor, since there are so many
impediments to people get-
ting the care they need,” he
said. “I believe that you answer
every question and be truth-
ful. I’m not a refi ned person. I
have clear ideas of what I want
to happen. I’m a janitor’s kid.
I want people to have a job
and I want janitors to be okay
with their job. If we accom-
plish that, we’ll be fi ne.”
Pierce said regulations
mean Oregonians are not
reaching their true potential.
“We need to stimulate
entrepreneurism,” he said.
“People are not able to step
out and innovate. We have the
opposite happening: people
are afraid to have their own
business. Maybe we could give
tax breaks. We have talented
people, but not enough of
them are out there. We need
to stimulate and encourage
them.”
Pierce feels the state should
go back to having a strong ex-
ecutive department, like when
Victor Atiyeh was governor in
the 1980s.
“The agency head was an-
swerable to him and he would
interact with the agencies,”
Pierce said of Atiyeh. “There
were commissions appointed
by the governor. Those com-
missioners had real oversight
over the agency. It was a more
successful system. We need to
have the leaders in place that
have a heart for the mission
of the agency. Right now we
have the governor who ap-
points an agency head, who
has to answer to both legisla-
tors and laborers. We need to
return to the 1980s.”
Bud Pierce,
a Republican
candidate
for Oregon
governor,
talks with the
Keizertimes
editorial
board last
week.
KEIZERTIMES/
Craig Murphy
I would rather have the press
there when I meet with the
minority leadership. We need
transparency, not issues decid-
ed behind closed doors.”
Pierce said state govern-
ment can learn from busi-
nesses.
“There are many great gov-
ernment employees that just
need to be turned loose to do
a great job,” he said. “There
are just layers of bureaucracy.
No one does that in the real
world.”
If elected governor, Pierce
said he would want to re-
form education and also have
budget cuts for all state agen-
cies. He would also like to
see more of an emphasis on
higher quality legislation, as
opposed to a high quantity of
legislation.
“I’m really uninterested
in a large volume of legisla-
tion that is not well laid out,”
Pierce said. “I want to use the
veto as little as possible. I don’t
like having secret negotiations.
KPIC members working on another project
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The cow pasture in Keizer
won’t always be the way it is
now.
Members of the Keizer
Points of Interest Committee
(KPIC) want the current form
to be remembered.
At recent meetings, KPIC
members have talked about
taking photos of the current
Savage House/Keizer View
Dairy/Herber Farm/cow pas-
ture property.
In a surprising September
2014 vote, Keizer City Coun-
cilors rejected a proposal from
developer Mark Grenz to
convert the property to 120
apartment units. That decision
was appealed to the Land Use
Board of Appeals (LUBA), but
it’s believed a revised proposal
will be brought to councilors
soon.
KPIC members are plan-
ning to research the history
of the Savage House in addi-
tion to taking pictures of how
it looks today. That way, if the
property is indeed developed
into something else, there will
be information to put on a
sign near the property.
Jill Bonney-Hill, KPIC
chair, noted at the April 19
meeting she has found some
basic information, such as
who bought and sold the
property over the years. Sher-
rie Gottfried suggested talking
to JoAnne Beilke at the Keizer
Heritage Center to see if there
is any known history of the
property.
Bonney-Hill noted a book
from city deputy recorder
Debbie Lockhart had a pic-
ture and briefl y talked about
the historical home.
“We need to get pictures of
the house, even the rundown
building with the cows,”
Lockhart said.
Gottfried had an idea of
where to put a sign containing
photos and information.
“If we put it in Claggett
Creek Park looking up (to the
property), we could put the
sign there,” she said. “It would
be cool to talk about what it
produced, dairy truck deliver-
ies, pictures of the cows, things
like that.”
KPIC member Anita Zahn-
iser volunteered to go into the
park and take pictures of the
property as it stands now.
In other KPIC business:
• While that project is in
the early stages, KPIC’s Oral
History project continues.
Zahniser noted she has to get
non-interviewee release forms
signed per a recommenda-
tion by city attorney Shan-
non Johnson, since fi rst and
last names were mentioned in
to talk about funds for a fl ood
history sign at Keizer Rapids
Park. Lockhart suggested a re-
quest to submit and showed it
to KPIC members.
“I think it’s awesome,”
Gottfried told Lockhart. “You
did an amazing job. Thank you
so much. It’s beautiful. We all
owe you I don’t know what,
but it’s something wonderful.”
• Bonney-Hill said she will
put a mention on the KPIC
Facebook page asking for
more volunteers to join the
committee. There are still two
vacant seats on KPIC, which
has led to a lack of quorums
recently and thus cancelled
meetings.
an interview she recently did.
The project entails interview-
ing some of Keizer’s longtime
residents to learn stories from
the city’s early days.
“I have the form and need
to get the three men to sign
it because their names are
mentioned in the interview,”
Zahniser said. “I can get the
release form signed or have
that part blanked out.”
Lockhart suggested just
using fi rst names as a way to
bypass the issue, a suggestion
KPIC members liked.
• KPIC members were
expected to be at the May 3
Keizer Budget Committee
meeting -- and indeed were --
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