Page 2 Portland Observer, September 15, 1982
The Great Debate
G overnor Victor A tiyeh and State
Senator Ted K ulongoski m et in the
fir s t o f their d eb a te series last Friday
a t the C ity Club. The debate held
f e w surprises and little excitement,
with both candidates ready and
well-rehearsed.
K ulongoski cam e o f f as the stron
ger o f the tw o — m ore specific in his
responses, especially in the area o f
the econom y. While Kulongoski o f
fe re d specific program s f o r long and
sh ort range econom ic developm ent
and jo b s, A tiyeh referred to his rec
ord without detailing specifics and
expressed his b e lie f that things will
im prove.
Following are statem ents o f the
candidates on the issues:
the same, to renegotiate the con
tracts. It has been successful. By
year end it's our estimate that there
will be 1,800 jobs produced just be
cause o f that.”
Ted K u lon goski
Economy
“ I have proposed an economic
development strategy, to diversify
our economy so that we never again
have to say, •recovery.’ . . . I t calls
for reorganizing our state economic
development bureaucracy to get
more action and more return for our
investment. It is a strategy o f reach
ing out to Oregon’s small and mid
sized businesses through an Oregon
enterprise program with the skills
and information that make the d if
ference between success and failure.
” . . . It w ill bring new dollars into
Oregon by opening up new export
markets for our products through
an Oregon export program. It will
help our mills retool so they can
compete on the worldwide market
by operating at the highest efficien
cy. It calls for an economic adjust
ment program to assist businesses in
distress and yes, if necessary, help
communities and workers faced
with the loss o f a major employer.
And it calls for an industrial recruit
ing program with a far more profes
sional approach than the hollow im
agery o f blowing up — dynamiting
— signs on the Oregon border. It is
a strategy that will work to create
and protect high-quality jobs for
Oregonians because it is based on
the strengths that we have. . . .
“ My Oregon energy program will
work to fight rate increases and cre
ate jobs by stressing conservation
and renewable energy resources. 1
will continue to work for the pride
and dignity o f our elderly by pre
serving and pursuing Project Inde
pendence and Lifeline utility rates.
” . . . I believe we have a program,
and if it’s implemented we can give
the people o f this state hope and em
ployment in the near future and in
the long-term future. That’s why
I ’ve said that I ’ve proposed pro
grams such as assisting small and
mid-sized businesses to get capital
and reduce governmental red tape,
because that’s where 70 percent of
all the jobs created in this state come
from.
“ We’ re going to have a ‘ Buy Ore
gon’ program which gives a prefer
ence in the public sector to utilizing
contracts from Oregon employers
when issuing state contracts and lo
cal government contracts. In the pri
vate sector we are going to encour
age firms to use in-state suppliers
and producers and, in essence, we
are saying 'Buy Oregon.’ I think we
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SENATOR T. KULONGOSKI
should also look at some o f the oth
er ideas that we’ve come up with:
the reinvestment program, a retool
ing program for Oregon. But most
o f all, I believe that in fact when the
state government makes the effort
to put them to work to build a
sound economy, the people o f this
state will not have to take a reduced
standard o f living. A ll they want is a
job. They don’t want welfare; they
want the opportunity to work.
Jobs by January, 1983
“ I will do the following: I will
speed up construction in public
works programs that this state has
control over to put people to work
immediately. I w ill concentrate on
aggressively recruiting those firms
with the highest potentiality of com
ing to Oregon immediately. I will
put timber contracts out for rebid
rather than extension, so loggers
and mill workers can come back to
work. I will use industrial revenue
bonding capacity in this state to pro
vide for the retooling o f our mills so
that our millworkers can get back to
work. And I will begin an aggressive
campaign with the Bonneville Pow
er Administration to negotiate the
utilization o f the SI.2 billion that
they have for conservation, both in
the residential and the business sec
tor.
Minority Employment
“ Let me suggest that you can pass
all the laws you want, and true
equality in this country and in this
state comes from equality in the
marketplace, economic equality.
The opportunity to get a job, be
paid a fair wage for it, to be able to
compete for it fairly. Those are the
things that I think that the state can
do because first o f all I think all the
rhetoric on affirmative action and
equality pales in comparison when,
in fact, that you can look out and
you can see people employed. I am
committed to aggressively enforcing
the affirmative action laws o f this
state to give all o f our citizens equal
employment opportunity.
“ I also believe that we are going
to have to look at the educational
structure with the minorities in the
state to see if in fact we are training
the people that graduate from our
school system with the skills that
they will need to compete in this di
versified economy that we are trying
to bring to Oregon. And third — the
one area that I am very interested in
— looking at the taxing mechanism
to try to bring about an incentive for
employers
to
hire
minorities
through the Jobs Credit Program. I
would like to see that type o f pro
gram earmarked specifically for mi
norities because I believe that
through that ad campaign, through
providing the skills for those people
so that they can be a part in the state
enforcing its affirmative action pro
gram, we can treat all the citizens
fairly in this state and give them the
potential for employment in the fu
ture.
The Choice
“ Oregon can no longer put o ff
tackling the tough problems: the
problems o f economic diversifica
tion, o f providing essential state ser
vices, of improving the quality of
higher education and o f getting our
people back to work. This year, the
people o f Oregon have a very clear
choice. They can continue the direc
tion o f the last four years. Or they
can choose a new direction that will
begin the day I take office. On that
day Oregonians will have a governor
who understands that 150,000 of
our people are unemployed, who
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GOVERNOR V. ATIYEH
knows that BPA rates have in
creased 300 percent in the last three
years, and who realizes that last year
9,500 Oregonians faced bankruptcy.
Victor Atiyeh
Economy
"A s Oregon pulls itself out o f this
devastating national recession, the
need to continue real leadership in
the governor’s office has never been
more apparent. I ’ve strong views
about leadership. Leadership comes
from hard work, not words...and
leadership is what I ’ve brought to
state government; I ’ve brought it
through competence, good manage
ment and tough decision-making
over the last 3 '/ j years. . .
“ Where do we stand today in
state government? Five million dol
lars per month is saved by Oregon
taxpayers in welfare alone; 3,785
fewer employees are in state govern
ment now than two years ago. $80
million per year is saved by Oregon
businesses in workmen’s compensa
tion. Supplemental unemployment
benefits have been won, and bene
fits raised without increasing costs
for employers; $137 million has
been saved in electric ratepayer costs
and millions more have been saved
by the taxpayer through state gov
ernment’s own energy conservation
program. Our state budgets are $404
million less than they were three
years ago.”
“ Yes, Oregon is in a recession. A
recession that has made a number of
issues clear. Oregon did not lead the
nation into the recession. It is clear
that Oregon did not create high in
terest rates. It is clear that Oregon
did not produce the trillion dollar
federal debt. We, along with almost
two-thirds o f these United States,
are the victims, not the criminals.
I ’ve been in this battle — making
the tough choices, working to turn
our economy around.”
“ Actually, I believe that our state
is going to move forward with the
kinds o f programs that we have al
ready instituted within our own
state government and, I might add,
with the prospects that we have de
veloped since I have been governor
o f the s ta te .... Oregonians want
jobs, they don’t want unemploy
ment compensation and welfare.
“ So I believe actually that we’ll
be able to deal with the short-range
future as well as our long-range fu
ture, which I see as a bright future
for our own state, and be able to
balance the various needs o f Ore
gonians as I have during this period
o f time, in a way in which those
essential things are considered.”
Job* by January 1983
“ I can tell you that I believe very
strongly in Oregonians. I believe in
them. I ’m not like those who believe
government knows how to do it; I
believe they know how. And I can
tell you, having traveled the slates
and listened to Oregonians and
knowing how excited they are about
being able to take control o f their
lives for the first time with govern
ment’s cooperation and help, being
a partner in that process, that is
something (hat I do not want to
stifle.”
“ I ’ve worked very hard to help
our timber industry. And I most re
cently was back in Washington,
D.C., before Sen. Hatfield’s com
mittee attempting to get not just the
extensions which provide no new
jobs but a renegotiation o f our con
tracts with the Forest Service and
the Bureau o f Land Management in
Oregon. I asked the special session
that we allow the state forester to do
Minority Employment
“ The future in Oregon for the m i
nority and the underemployed really
rests in the hands o f those who are
heading governments, whether it ’s
the governor, city, county — where
else it might be — in their own per
sonal commitment. I brought to the
office o f governor a personal com
mitment, one which I didn’t use on
the campaign trail, but which I
believe in. I think we can use this.
"Oregon government should be
the leader to show Oregon business
how they can actually benefit from
the use o f those people who are
wanting jobs so badly. And I can
tell you that Oregon government,
under my tenure, has really led the
way in proving to those who have
been unemployed and for those mi
norities that we really want to pro
duce jobs for them. And we have
done it in our own state govern
ment.
The Choice
" I t is a choice between a public
record and a public posture. It is a
choice between promises kept and
promises made.
“ I ’ve spent my life in Oregon.
I ’ve listened to her people, and I ’ve
worked hard — 24 years o f public
service — to better the quality o f life
that we all enjoy. Today, listening
to my opponent, he offers to take us
back to the ’60s and the ’70s that led
us to more than a decade of ruinous
inflation, deficit spending and a
government separate and removed
from the very people it was sworn to
represent; unsupported programs,
public funds for social engineering,
balancing budgets with higher taxes
and a government that knows it
all.”
W ho was the only U .S. President sworn into office
by a woman? Answer; Lyndon Johnson, sworn in by
Judge Sarah Hughes.
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What famous American college was founded by, and
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money from owning a brewery.
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