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‘City of Roses’
Volume XLV
Number 43
Thriller Crave
Gov. Brown’s
presidential shout out
Jackson hit
recreated for
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Wednesday • October 26, 2016
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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
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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.
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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.
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