FOUR * Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 20, 1993
Change fund raising laws for politicians
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Letter to the Editor
Oregonians losers in lottery industry
To the Editor:
Did you know no Oregon lot
tery tickets are printed in Oregon?
They come from Georgia. None
of the Megabucks terminals are
produced in Oregon? They’re
from Rhode Island. None of the
Powerball terminals are produc
ed in Oregon? Rhode Island
again. None of the video poker
games are made in Oregon?
Rhode Island, Illinois, Montana
and Nevada.
In fact» over 80 percent of the
lottery’s dollars for goods and
services are spent outside our
state.
And all of this from a state
agency whose mission statement
includes, “ the creation of jobs
and economic development in
Oregon.”
Lottery officials are quick to
claim that “ there are no in-state
providers” of such products as
scratch-offs, pull-tabs and on-line
tickets.
Yet, when an Oregon business
anticipates a need and does try to
meet the requirements of the lot
tery, as one Oregon firm did with
video poker games, the lottery ar
ranges the bidding process to
guarantee that only their
preselected bidders will qualify.
To be sure that no Oregon pro
ducts are used in the future, the
lottery agrees to exclusive con
tracts with these out-of-state ven
dors for seven years.
Now the lottery is requesting
proposals for a “ New Genera
tion” of video machines to
replace the existing ones, and
based on past experience, we’ll
be importing these new machines
too. Oh well, there’s another $50
million in jobs shipped out of
state by bureaucrats in Salem who
are supposed to be creating jobs
and economic development here
in Oregon.
The state senate is about to con
firm a new lottery director, to
replace Jim Davey who left
Oregon for a lucrative job with
a Montana manufacturer of video
poker games. Just by coin
cidence, this manufacturer hap
pens to be the largest supplier of
these games to the Oregon lot
tery. Imagine that.
Let’s be sure that this new
director is better aligned with the
needs of Oregonians and Oregon
businesses, ratner than serving
the whims of out-of-state masters.
Oregonians deserves a better
role in lottery operations than just
being suckers with cash to feed
the state’s gambling habit.
(s) Stu Rasmussen
Silverton, OR
To the Editor:
Some people have been offend
ed by efforts of Bob Smith, a
Republican U.S. Senator from
New Hampshire, to raise funds in
an Oregon congressional district
that just happens to be
represented by a Republican nam
ed Bob Smith.
They shouldn’t be. Campaign
warchests are getting higher and
higher, and elected officials need
to spend too much time fund
raising. As the system gets worse
and worse, we shouldn’t be sur
prised when politicians resort to
tactics like these.
This isn’t the first time this has
happened in Oregon. There is lit
To the Editor:
To all who are encouraging us
to vote for the five percent sales
tax I understand your concern. I
might have decided to vote for it
if a better alternative wasn’t
already in the works to be voted
on in November 1994.1 hope you
will take the time to study and
understand it, since it is the fairest
tax I have ever heard about.
I am urging everyone to check
out the 2 percent Equal Tax
Measure that will be on the ballot
next November 1994. If it passes,
state bureaucracy will be reduc
ed. At the end of each month a
business would send a check
directly to the same State Tax Of
fice in Salem we now use, for
disbursement. It would eliminate
the assessor’s offices, saving tax
payers 48 million dollars a year.
Never again would businesses
have to hold out state taxes from
their employees’ wages. Never
again would you fill out a state
tax form, or worry about that
November 15 property tax
D.A.’s Repo
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The Morrow County District
Attorney’s office reports handl
ing the following business during
the past week:
Kurt Cate, Irrigon, failed to ap
pear for a schedulede circuit court
trial Oct. 14 for alleged Theft I
and Unauthorized Use of a Motor
Vehicle. The court issued a bench
warrant for Kate, with bail set at
$25,000;
Frank Leinweber, Irrigon was
convicted Oct. 13 at Irrigon
Justice Court for Failure to Per
form the Duties of a Driver In
volved
in an A ccident.
Leinweber’s license was suspend
ed for 90 days. He was also fin
ed $110 and placed on a one
year’s probation.
Two Irrigon juveniles, involv
ed in an incident where rocks
were dropped from an overpass
onto a passing vehicle, were con
victed of criminal mischief in
juvenile court and ordered to pay
$490 in restitution to the driver of
the vehicle and for damages in
flicted on boats in the Irrigon
Marina.
One Boardman juvenile was
ordered in Juvenile Court Oct. 18
to serve two days in the Benton
County Juvenile facility on a pro
bation revocation stemming from
an earlier Forgery I conviction.
One Irrigon juvenile, also in
volved in the rock throwing in
cident, was convicted in Juvenile
Court Oct. 18 of Theft II.
Disposition is pending.
A trial for Richard Ingersol.
LaGrande, alleged to have com
mitted sodomy in Irrigon, has
been continued until Nov. 4. The
trial was originally set for Oct.
16. Ingersol is currently in jail.
James Howard Stark, Irrigon,
was convicted in Circuit Court of
Burglary II, Theft I. and two
counts of Unauthorized Use of a
Motor Vehicle in connection with
a burglary at Sunridge Mobile
Homes at Irrigon. Stark was
sentenced to 240 days in Benton
County Jail.
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deadline. It would do away with
all 38 different taxes in Oregon
and replace them with one equal
tax. You would never again pay
property taxes or any other state
tax.
The two percent Equal Tax
works because everyone pays a
little as the dollar circulates
throughout the state of Oregon.
It is not tied to what you earn, but
to what you spend, putting you in
control of your money. If you
spent $20,000 in one year, your
total tax would amount to $400.
If you spent $40,000, your total
tax would be $800. It works
because everyone pays a little.
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679-4427 or The Direct Legisla
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Portland, Oregon 97215 phone
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With the population of the U.S. increasing, it’s prudent to not waste
natural resources. So it doesn’t make sense not to salvage dead and
dying timber that could heat many homes or be made into chips.
Though we’re encouraged to recycle paper, those downed trees repre
sent tons of paper products.
That’s not exactly the agenda of this proclaimed “ Recycle Week” .
But it seems there would be a whole lot less waste if the government
and the judicial courts were recycled into a meaningful system. And
for those gun-toting school children we see on the news maybe there’s
a need to recycle parental responsibility.
Events during Recycle Week are focused on involving more peo
ple in recycling activities. For instance this past Tuesday was a ‘no
waste’ lunch day. But from local high school students’ comments
it seems the current school lunch program has already eliminated
leftovers promoting more downtown excursions for goodies.
Then there’s 'paperless Wednesday’ this week. It’s not certain what
the originator of this proposal had in mind. Just getting going in the
morning involves the use of paper. Hankerchiefs could be substituted
for kleenex used by morning honkers like in yesteryear. ‘Back when’
we must have been ahead of our time for in those days the old catalogs
were recycled in the little shanty out back.
Computers now spit out more waste paper than could be consum
ed by a herd of fire-breathing dragons. But I don’t complain for those
machines crank out enough blank pages to keep me in typing paper.
Recycled paper is now used for many products and grocery stores
are using plastic bags as well as encouraging the reuse of paper bags.
Bringing home groceries from bulk store containers would probably
still keep me emptying a large wastepaper basket every day that is
also filled with advertising by mail.
There are enough empty plastic milk jugs to make floats for a very
large raft. Some can be cut out for plant protectors in the spring.
Or perhaps we could fill them with sand and use them as building
material along with old tires that have been used to build walls. Maybe
I could create a yard fence that has been put on hold.
Frozen products have gained favor over canned foods. But I still
enjoy cutting out both ends of tin cans. Though there are appliances
designed to smash cans flat, somehow it’s satisfying to stomp
something flat that doesn't talk back while reducing storage space.
A closet full of cloth material scraps is just waiting to be recycled
into something useful, I keep saying. And barnyard wastes become
natural fertilizer when I can find a strong back to man a shovel. But
I don’t resort to putting bricks in the toilet tanks, because I’ve already
saved my share of water during times in the past when carrying water
became a necessity.
Old newspapers come in handy for fall weed burning. Meanwhile
they are bundled and put in recycling bins when the supply threatens
to hamper getting out the back door. Ingrained saving habits are hard
to break, such as making applesauce from apples that the worms have
already taken more than their share. The old adage ‘waste not-want
not’ makes it difficult to even throw away things that will never be
used. Now if they’d just come out with a way to recycle old bodies
there would be more accomplished and less lengthy lists of things
needing to be done in order to save or recycle things.
Justice Court
Report
The Justice Court office at the
courthouse annex building in
Heppner reports handling the
following business during the past
week:
Timothy James Tompkins, 19,
Hermiston-Possession of more
than One Valid Deer Tag, $76
fine;
Gerald Dale Fee, 32, Portland-
Illegal Possession of Deer (no
valid deer tag), $76 fine;
Scott G eorge Bond, 32,
Oregon City-No Valid Deer Tag,
$259 fine;
Debra Ann M ichael, 31,
Heppner-Driving While Suspend
ed, $357 fine, $200 suspended;
Russell Brannon, Heppner-
Maintaining a Dog as a Nuisance,
$25 fine;
Arletha Brannon, Heppner-
Maintaining a Dog as a Nuisance,
$25 fine;
Linda Wilhelm, Heppner-three
counts of Maintaining Dog as a
Nuisance, $146 fine; Failure to
Appear, 60 days in jail, jail
sentence suspended with no ftir-
ther violation of the law in one-
year period;
Hin Heng, Tacoma, WA.-
Pointing a Firearm at Another,
$164 fine, 90 days in jail, $100
fine and jail sentence suspended
with one year probation with no
further violation of the law ex
cluding minor traffic.
available at the Morrow County
office of the OSU Extension Ser
vice where it may be viewed or
checked out. The program was
produced by the OSU Extension
Service as part of the program
called “ Oregon Fiscal Choices:
Exploring the Long-Term Con
sequences,” now underway
through the Program for Govern
mental Research and Education at
OSU. The educational effort is
supported by a grant from the
Northwest Area Foundation.
The Morrow County Extension
Office is located in the Pettyjohn
Office Building, Heppner (503)
676-9642.
A videotape explaining
Oregon’s property tax system and
the effects of Ballot Measure 5,
the propety tax lim itation
measure, is now available to the
public, reports Bruce Weber,
OSU Extension economist.
“ Ballot Measure 5: Your Pro
perty Taxes and Government
Spending” uses a typical
homeowner’s tax bill to explain
the effects of Ballot Measure 5
and how local governments and
schools levy property taxes. The
program also explores the effect
of Ballot Measure 5 on the state
government’s general fund.
The 18-minute program is
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tle difference between the New
Hampshire Bob Smith, who is
trying to pass himself off as an
O regonian, and Sen. Bob
Packwood, who sent letters to
supporters of Israel inferring that
he is Jewish.
The
answ er
to
these
shenanigans is clear: We must
change laws that allow politicians
to rely on out-of-state funds for
election. Until the law is chang
ed, they will continue to pay more
attention to the people who give
them money than to the people
who elect them.
(s) Wayne Kinney, chairman,
Second District Democrats
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