February 26, 1992...The Portland Observer...Page 3
Carl Taiton Received The
1991 Award Of Excellence
Carl Taiton
Carl Talton, Pacific Power C o­
lum bia Area manager, received the
1991 Aw ard o f Excellence fo r out­
standing performance from PacifiCorp.
The award was given to only 25 in d i­
viduals across PacifiC orp’s seven state
service area fo r exceptional perfor­
mance in comm unity service, customer
relations and innovation.
“ Carl consistently performs be­
yond expectations in com m unity rela­
tions, economic development, sales and
management,” said Diana Snowden,
vice president o f Pacific Power’ s Or-
egon/Califom ia Region. “ As the same
time, he maintains high levels o f trust
among those he works w ith, both in
and out o f the company.”
Talton has been instrumental in
changing How Pacific, government
and other m ajor businesses respond to
the needs o f the poor in north and
northeast Portland.
“ The way to revitalize our part o f
Pordand is through economic devel­
opment and the jobs it brings,” said
Talton. “ To do that, we need to bring
in money for business, fo r upgrading
the public infrastructure and for hous-
ing.
He has twice been appointed to
the Portland Development Com m is­
sion and has represented the C ity o f
Portland and PDC on business recruit­
ment delegations to Japan. As a com­
missioner w ith PDC, he has helped in
its efforts to produce $2.5 m illio n for
job training and small business devel­
opment revolving loan funds and suc­
cessfully lobbied at the federal level to
get monies fo r the area.
“ Pacific Power as a provider o f
electric services also plays a large part
in the revitalization o f northeast Port­
land,” said Talton. “ We are uniquely
poised to provide plenty o f power for
growth, the services necessary to en­
sure that the growth is efficient and
prices that have actually declined over
the past four years.”
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Packwood
Discusses Health Care
Differences
Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, in
an editorial board interview w ith the
Salem Statesman-Journal, today dis­
cussed the clear differences between
his own Comprehensive Health Insur­
ance Plan (CH IP) and the Russo b ill,
supported by Congressman Les A uC oin.
AuCoin had pledged his public support
fo r the Russo b ill at times during an
interview w ith Oregonian columnist
Jeff Mapes, and also at a Eugene health
care rally in October, 1991.
AuCoin and his operatives have
been disputing Packwood’s use o f a
figure o f a 21 percent payroll tax to fund
the Russo plan. AuC oin aide Rachel
G orlin has said that the figure was a
fig m e nto f the Packwood camp’s im agi­
nation.
Packwood apologized today for the
21 percent figure. “ The figure I gave,
21 percent, was in error,” commented
Senator Packwood. ‘T h e 21 percent
figure I have been using was fo r the
1990costs.TheCongressional Research
Service has based a new estimate on
1992 health care costs. Costs now are
much higher. I f paid fo r solely by a
payroll tax, it would have to be a tax
between 24 and 25 percent. To advo­
cate placing this kind o f tax burden on
Oregonians is unconscionable.”
Earned Income
Credit Increases
The last part o f the credit allows up
to $428 fo r health insurance premiums
paid that include coverage o f one or
more qualifying children. The credit
cannot exceed the actual amount o f the
premiums paid and the Schedule A
medical deduction ( if applicable) must
be reduced by the amount o f the credit.
“ Jackson H ew itt uses a computer­
ized software system that allows the
Earned Income C redit to be calculated
quickly and accurately,” said Susan J.
Girouard, D istrict Manager.
Health Care Should be An American Birthright;
AuCoin Calls For Quality and Affordable Health Care
Saying that America stands at a
crossroads where the path to economic
justice must be the hallmark o f a ll our
endeavors, Democratic senatorial can­
didate Les AuC oin proposed a plan for
quality and affordable health care fo r
a ll Americans.
“ F o r too m any A m e ric a n s ,”
AuCoin said, “ affordable, quality health
care is becoming only a distant dream.
The premiums, deductibles, and add­
ons are breaking fam ily budgets--and
becoming a distant memory.” In fact.
AuCoin added, over $70 b illio n a year
is “ wasted on paperwork alone.”
AuCoin said the current health care
system in Am erica is at a “ crisis,” and
that it is time to act to ensure affordable
and decent health care fo r a ll Am eri-
cans-not ju s t for the 37 m illio n A m e ri­
cans who have no health care at a ll, but
for the thousands o f Oregonians and
m illions o f Americans who are strug­
gling each and every day to pay fo r
health care coverage fo r themselves
and their families.
AuC oin proposed scrapping the
current system and replacing it w ith a
single payer system. “ That means re­
placing the 1,500 insurance companies
that run up billions o f dollars in over­
head costs, bury us in senseless paper­
work, and w rite their own rules that
leave those who really need coverage
out in the cold,” he said.
Under the single payer plan AuCoin
proposed, each state would appoint a
separate com m ission-com prised o f
consumers, other private citizens and
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Portland City Auditor Barbara Clark
announced today that the No Special
Rights Com m ittee’ s petition to amend
the Portland C ity Charter to restrict
sexual orientation provisions o f C ity
law has failed to q ualify fo r the May 19
b a llo t
Backers o f the petition needed
17,542 valid signatures to place the
initiative on the M ay 19 ballot. A check
o f the petition signatures by the
Multnomah County Elections O ffice
this week indicates that the petition
filed w ith the C ity on January 21,1992,
contained an estimated 15,909 valid
signatures, approximately 1,600 less
than required to qualify for the ballot.
This result confirmed the results o f an
in itia l check o f petition signatures
conducted by the Elections Office Janu­
ary 31.
“ The second check o f the No
Special Rights Petition once again
showed that the signatures submitted
by petition sponsors contained an un­
usually high percentage o f names o f
individuals not registered to vote in
Multnomah County or the C ity o f Port­
land. On that basis, the petition has
failed and w ill not appear on the M ay
19 b allot,” said C ity A uditor Clark.
“ I met w ith County Elections
D irector V ic k i E rvin last week to re-
view the signature sampling process,
and I am satisfied w ith the v a lid ity and
accuracy o f the process. The sampling
procedure used to check signatures on
this petition is statistically valid, and
conforms to the requirements o f C ity
Code and state law. Checks o f addi­
tional signatures cannot reasonably be
expected to change the result, so no
further checking w ill be done. The
petition has fa ile d,” said Clark.
Petition backers submitted 22,934
signatures to the C ity on January 21,
1992 to place the question on the M ay
19 ballot. An in itia l check o f 1,605
signatures by the Elections O ffice last
week indicated that petition backers
had fallen short o f the 17,543 valid
signatures needed to place the measure
on the ballot, due in part to a large
num berof signatures from unregistered
voters, or voters not registered in the
C ity o f Portland. C ity Code and state
law provides fo r a second sample to be
checked i f an initia l sample reveals that
a petition may not contain the m in i­
mum number o f valid signatures. The
Elections O ffice checked a second
sample o f 2,752 signatures this week,
which contained only 1,909 valid sig­
natures, or 69.4%. Based on this sample,
the fu ll petition contains an estimated
15,909 valid signatures.
Jefferson Student Literary
Magazine Receives
National Award
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Jefferson H igh School lite ra ry
magazine, Rites o f Passage, received
National Council o f Teachers o f En­
glish (NCTE) highest award.
Poems, short stories, essays and
illustrations by 42 Jefferson High School
students were published in magazine
format and submitted as one o f 1,073
entrees in the N C T E com petition.
Jefferson was one o f only 35 submis­
sions nationally chosen for this award.
High schools, ju n io r high schools
and middle schools across the United
States, Canada and American schools
abroad enter the competition designed
to foster literary magazines w ith high
standards for w ritin g and publishing.
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need, A uC oin said.
C urrently, Americans spend more
than $400 b illio n annually on health
care premiums, AuC oin said, adding
that the current medical industrial com ­
plex likes things just the way they are.
In fact, AuC oin added, some people
in Oregon advocate mandating that all
employers provide health insurance to
every employee, then call it a day. “ W ell,
it w on’ t w o rk -a n d it ’s not fa ir.”
A uC oin said that i t ’s wrong to
“ single out a small business in Ashland
and force it to bear the burden o f paying
fo r a health care quick fix . The last thing
small businesses can afford is another
mandate from a federal government in ­
tent on avoiding responsibility.”
A u C o in also sa id th a t the
adm inistration’ s opposition to a sen­
sible fa m ily leave law epitomizes the
way this adm inistration thinks about
issues that affect w orking men and
women throughout the nation.
AuC oin said that he w ill help “ lead
the fig h t” fo r a national fa m ily leave
policy,” legislation which w ill provide
forparental leave fo r fam ily crises, preg­
nancy leave and medical leave.
AuC oin said that the adm inistra­
tion “ just doesn ’ t get it. Instead o f help­
ing fam ilies make it, they embrace the
u ltra -righ t a ge nd a-vetoin g parental
leave; fighting child care legislation;
waging their never-ending battle to take
away the rig ht to choose fo r women.
That’ s why today’s historic chance to
change the direction o f Am erica is so
critica l.”
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businesses-to negotiate yearly reason­
able budgets w ith health care providers
such as doctors, hospitals, drug compa­
nies and others.
And these changes can happen,
AuCoin said, “ not by having the gov­
ernment be in the business o f providing
health care, but by having the govern­
ment work to control costs and finance
a fair, available and affordable health
care system.”
AuCoin advocated paying for the
system, “ not through the peace d iv i-
dend-w e need those funds to re-tool
America’seconomy. Instead, we should
capture the money we ’re already spend­
ing, wastefully, in private premiums,
rebate them to consumers and substi­
tute public financing,” saving $70 b il­
lion.
AuCoin, speaking at Southern O r­
egon State College in Ashland, said that
health care costs are expected to sky­
rocket $700 b illio n in the next nine
years alone, and that small businesses
are also being squeezed by costs pro­
jected to increase by more than 600
percent during the same period.
Currently, Am erica is the only in ­
dustrialized country other than South
A frica that doesn ’ t have national health
insurance; the United States ranks 19th
among industrialized countries in in ­
fant mortality.
And through it all appears a frig h t­
ening realization: that under the cur­
rent, chaotic health care system, every
American “ is just one pink slip away”
from losing the health coverage they
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