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Obama Endorsement QR code for Portland Observer Online ‘City of Roses’ Volume XLV Number 43 Thriller Crave Gov. Brown’s presidential shout out Jackson hit recreated for a good cause See Local News, page 3 See Metro, page 9 www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday • October 26, 2016 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity photo by C ervante p ope /t he p ortland o bserver Measure 26-179, a Portland proposal to levy bonds to build new housing and purchase and rehabilitate existing housing to maintain affordability, prevent displacement and allow residents to remain in their homes, draws support from representatives of Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives, Inc., a housing provider headquartered at 6329 N.E. Martin Luther King. Jr. Blvd. Pictured (from left) are Travis Phillips, Aminah Williams, Linda Tellis-Kennedy, Suzanne Veaudry Casaus, Michael Fu, Justin Trubiani and Lisa Williams. Voting Begins C ervante p ope t he p ortland o bserver A large ballot with elections to decide who will be Ore- gon’s next governor, a Portland City Council position and several ballot measures ranging from a city tax on mar- ijuana to taxing sales on large corporations to fund state services is now in the hands of voters. Vote-by-mail ballots were delivered to registered vot- ers in Portland and the rest of the state over the past few days and are due back by 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8. The large amount of issues and positions facing the electorate shows there is a lot competing for your attention against the contentious presidential election consuming much of the news. by Two candidates who won more than 50 percent of the vote in Portland’s non-partisan May Primary elections, Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler and incumbent City Commis- sion Amanda Fritz, will automatically start their terms in January without facing voters again. The candidates that won party nominations in May will now appear in the cur- rent general election. It means that Oregon Commissioner of Labor and In- dustry Brad Avakian who won the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State is up against State Rep. Dennis Rich- ardson, who won the Republican nomination. On the gu- bernatorial front, former Secretary of State and incumbent Gov. Kate Brown is seeking election to continue carrying Large ballot packed with candidates, issues out the rest of former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s term, follow- ing his 2015 resignation due to an ethics scandal. Brown faces Republican nominee and physician Bud Pierce. Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick is asking for re-election in a runoff race against Chloe Eudaly. Novick was the only city commissioner to vote against a contro- versial new police union contract siding with police re- form activists. Eudaly has earned goodwill in the commu- nity as owner of the alternative press shop Reading Frenzy in north Portland and as co-founder of the Independent Publishing Resources Center. C ontinued on p age 4
