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Portland Observer
Thursday. May 6. 1976
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Secretary of State race crowded
C ontract M a n a g e m e n t Association Inc.
The Secretary of State is first in the line of succession to the Governor. This
office is at times likened to the office of Lieutenant Governor in other states, hut
also has come under attack as failing to justify its existence in recent years.
The office holds a number of vital responsibilities:
- The Secretary of State is the state's chief auditor and is responsible to audit all
state agencies.
- The Secretary of State is a member of the state's thaee member land board,
managing the states land holdings, swamp lands, and overseeing land conservation.
- The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer, and responsible for the
administration of elective law, overseeing elections, and publication of the Voter
Pamphlet.
B u tin «» Success Clinic
Tuesday 2:00 pm
Conducted by Tom Booth
2 8 8 -8 4 6 9
3 9 3 3 N.E. Union Portland, Oregon
Paulus — Republican
Norma Paulus was raised in Burns,
Oregon and after high school graduation
became secretary to the Harney County
District Attorney and later to an Ore­
gon Supreme Court Judge. Although
she had not attended college, she was
tested and accepted by the Willamette
Law School. In 1962 she was admitted
to the Oregon Bar and has practiced
apellate law in Salem since that date.
Paulus is serving her third term in
the House of Representatives. She was
Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee
on Land Use. has been vice chairman of
the House Elections Committee and
served as a member of the House
Revenue Committee. She was Republi­
can Floor Leader in the 1973 Legisla­
ture. Her interests have included envi­
ronment, natural resources, land use,
civil rights, women's rights, alternate
energy sources, criminal justice and
prison reform.
In the office of the Secretary of State, she advocates a uniform accounting
system for state agencies, more detailed audits and review of agencies to determine
if they are complying with legislature intent.
Kelting — Republican
A self-employed general contractor,
John P. Kelting has been active in
political campaigns in Tigard, California
and Florida. Stating that “you don't
have to be a big wheel or politician" and
that it does not take a lot of money to
run for office, Kelting has filed for the
Republican nomination for Secretary of
State. Kelting is active in civic organi­
zations in Tigard including Little Lea­
gue, Tigard Jaycees and SOLVE. He
advocates planning for Oregon to pre­
vent haphazard development or financial
bankruptcy.
Dymally, Bradley endorse Brown
LOS ANGELES - California Lieute
nant Governor Mervyn Dymally and
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley have
endorsed Governor Edmund G. Brown,
Jr. for President.
Their joint announcement was made
at a press conference which all three
officials attended at Brown for Presi
dent headquarters.
"No one has been as close a Jerry
Brown watcher as I have in the last
fifteen months." said Dymally. "I'm sa
tisfied that he has done an outstanding
job in California and that the people
want him to run for the Presidency."
"People are looking for some leader
by Robert Waite
A1 Densmore is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of
State. Densmore is a three term Representative from Jackson County. His
committee assignments include: Chairman of Elections Committee. Energy. Local
Government/Urban Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs. He was House Majority
Leader in the 1973 session.
Densmage advocates the establishment of all state agencies for a two to eight
year perid&, with a review to determine if that agency should continue to exist
based on its performance. If elected, I will investigate agencies and programs as
the state s chief auditor and make sure tax dollars are being spent wisely."
Wilkins — Democrat
Caroline Wilkins, former Chairman of
the Democratic Party in Oregon, is a
candidate for Secretary of State.
A
resident of Corvallis. Ms. Wilkins be­
came state chairman in 1969 and was
re-elected in 1970 and 1972. In 1972 she
was elected National Committee Vice
Chairman and served on the DNC Exe­
cutive Committee.
When she took office the party was in
debt and had suffered failure in the
1968 election. During the time she has
served as chairman the party has
achieved a majority in both uouses of
the state legislature, elected a Demo­
cratic Governor and holds all four Con­
gressional seats.
Ms. Wilkins advocates improving
government efficiency through audits
that measure the service that the public
is getting for its tax dollars.
Whipple — Democrat
Blaine Whipple is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Secretary of
State. Whipple represents Washington
County in the State Senate, elected in
1974. During the 1975 legislature he
was vice chairman of the Local Govern­
ment and Election committee and a
member of the Revenue and Transpor­
tation Committees. Whipple was the
[principal sponsor of the law requiring
¡mortgage lenders to pay interest on
property tax reserves.
Whipple was elected Democratic Na­
tional Committeeman in 1968 and 1972.
He was co^chairman of the McCarthy
campaign in 1968 and chairman of the
McGovern campaign in 1972.
Whipple stre sses accountability in
government and advocates performance
audits of state agencies to insure effec­
tive use of state funds. Current audits
do not measure performance of agencies
or determine whether they are progressing toward a goal or meeting legislative
intent. He also proposes to reduce required paperwork and to streamline state
business.
Groener — Democrat
Milwaukie, and is a
office. seeing'd^kbasTc D^nhT
a“d'tlng •78tem nt the Secretary of State's
found.
P < cm a need for follow up on irregularities that are
Groener advocates a greater role for the Secretary of States office, viewing it as
part of the team of Oregon's highest elected officials, "with the common goals of
building job opportunities, strengthening the state's economy, and creating a new
spirit of cooperation among all elements of our society.”
He cites his bringing together of industry and labor representatives to write
Oregon's new Uniform Building Code, which he describes as demonstrating his
ability to bring about cooperation in solving the state's problems.
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ship that will give them a new sense of
confidence in their governmental struc­
tures and in the elected leaders of the
country," Mayor Bradley commented.
"Jerry Brown has provided that in
California and I am confident he will be
able to carry that message across the
nation."
When asked why he had changed
from his neutral stand in the Presi
dential campaign. Bradley commented,
“Because of the candidacy of a man
whom I respect and admire and a man
who I believe will offer a great deal to
this country."
Right wing grabs
foreign policy initative
Densmore — Democrat
partner in a general insurance agency.
Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally and l<os Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley
endorse the presidential candidacy of California Governor Edmund Brown. Jr.
(center).
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passing day.”
Beyond the Soviet issue, Reagan has
thrown down the gauntlet to the in­
creasingly militant third world bloc in
the United Nations, betting the Ameri
can people are ready to vent their
frustration on critics abroad. Attacks
on Panama for its attempt to regain
control over the Panama Canal have
been symptomatic of his America first
stance.
The new strategy gave him a surpris
ing 45 percent of the Republican vote in
liberal Wisconsin, where he was expect
ed to do much worse. And the latest
national poll shows him moving from 33
to 40 percent backing by Republicans.
But the gap will have to close much
more dramatically if Reagan is to sue
ceed in creating a new constituency.
And the latest national poll shows a
heavy majority of Republicans still more
concerned with issues like crime, energy
and jobs than foreign policy questions.
DEMOCRATS
Although the Democrats have their
own version of Reagan on foreign policy
Senator Henry Jackson
Democratic
voters have shown less concern with the
issue than Republicans.
Surveys of
Democratic voters in the first six pri
maries found only one in fifteen con
cerned about the Soviet Union and one
in ten concerned about the defense
budget.
Jackson's votes in several of his bet
ter states - including New York were
narrowly based, with many coming from
Jews backing his tough pro-Israrl and
anti-Soviet stands.
The two fastest rising Democrats in
the country, former Georgia Governor
Jimmy Carter and California Governor
Jerry Brown, are virtually ignoring de
fense in their campaigns. Carter, though
rarely venturing forth on foreign policy,
says he backs a careful five percent
spending cut in the defense bureau
(PNS) -- For the first time in over a
decade, the in itiative in rem olding
American foreign policy has passed to
the right.
With anti-Vietnam war sentiment no
longer a driving force and the specter of
successful Cuban and Soviet support for
revolutionary movements fresh in the
nation's memory, conservative Ronald
Reagan has chosen foreign policy as the
decisive issue in his attempt to mold a
new conservative majority.
He has already forced a rightward
shift in President Ford's foreign policy:
the adm inistration has dropped the
word detente; hinted that the policy's
architect, Henry Kissinger, may also go;
and take a tougher line on Cuba and
defense spending.
And for the first time in years.
Congress - apparently reacting to So­
viet and Cuban moves in Angola - has
voted strongly for a defense budget as
big as the administration requested.
But as former Secretary of Defense
James Schlesinger, a key Reagan advi­
sor, told the press recently, an admini­
stration will have the proven support
for bold new foreign policy moves - like
retaliation against overseas Cuban in­
volvement - only if a "new constituency
is created in the course of the election."
And only the final stretch of prima
ries and the November election can
show whether the American people are
ready to shake off ten years of Vietnam
related doubt about the U.S's self ap
pointed role as world policeman and
make a decisive return to cold war
politics.
If they are, the results could include
the end of Soviet-American arms limi­
tations talks, an escalating arms race,
American involvement in the defense of
southern Africa's w hite m inority re
gimes, intervention against Cuba for its
role there and armed confrontations to cracy.
preserve control of the Panama Canal.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho, the
Less known to voters, the Reagan
latest entry in the race, is the only
foreign policy would likely also include a liberal candidate giving foreign policy
new alliance with China against Russia
much emphasis. But his focus on "need
- a turnabout for the rightwing
that
less foreign intervention" by the U.S.
would include the sale of weapons to the
and his criticisms of multinational cor
Chinese advocated in recent weeks by
[»orations and the CIA have yet to stir
Schlesinger.
the electorate.
POLLS
If the Reagan appeal for a tough new
So far, however, the depth of voter
stance does bring him the nomination
sentiment on foreign policy remains or is substantially adopted by Ford
unknown. Polls taken after the first
the Democrats' avoidance of foreign
primaries, including conservative New
policy may leave them vulnerable in the
Hampshire and Florida, showed it to be
face of a groundswell.
of minor concern compared to issues
Other than Jackson, the Democrats,
like jobs, federal spending and decen
though increasingly suspicious of cold
tralization of government power.
war ideologies and American involve
Unable to mobilize enough support
ments overseas, have thus far failed to
with his conservative stands on those
evolve a new ideology with which to
issues, however, Reagan is pushing hard
replace cold war assumptions of Soviet
to challenge the Ford administration's
dominated communism behind every left
foreign policy
particularly detente
m ovem ent or civil war around the
with the Soviet Union.
world.
He signalled the shift with a major
Thus they have been able to respond
television speech in North Carolina, and only negatively in cases like Angola,
subsequent polls indicated it was his
where they stopped American covert
successful polarization of the electorate
involvem ent but offered no positive
on the defense issue that gave him his
program. With no consistent long range
first victory there.
alternative to the renewed anti com
Since then Reagan has gone for broke
munism of the right wing, they may be
on the defense issue, accusing Henry
unable to mobilize opinion against a
K issinger of accepting second power
rising cold war consensus.
status behind the Soviet Union and
I Robert Waite, former regional editor
hammering home his message that “our
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