care access to children, reform schools by reducing class sizes and referbishing failing schools, strenghten Social Security and protect the environment.
contact: (615) 340-2000, www.algore2000.com
Pat Buchanan
Independent
Occupation: syndicated columnist and talk show host
contact: (703) 734-2700, www.buchananreform.com
Harry Browne
Libertarian
Occupation: Author
contact (202) 521-1200, www.harrybrowne.org
John Hagelin
Reform
Occupation: Research physicist, educator and public policy analyst contact: (877) 424-3546, www.hagelin.org
Howard Phillips
Constitution
Occupation: chairman, The Conservative Caucus
contact: (703) 242-0613, www.phillips2000.com
Attorney General
The Attorney General provides administrative oversight and support for the Department of Justice. Duties include directing and reviewing actions made by the department’s divisions, providing legal direction to the department’s 190 lawyers and representing the state in high-profile cases.
Thomas Cox
Libertarian
A database engineer from Salem, Cox supports minimizing government and defending individual rights. He has no prior government experience. Cox graduated from the University of Chicago in 1996 and has worked in engineering, public relations and management consulting.
contact: (503) 703-0666
Kevin Mannix
Republican
Mannix is campaigning with a tough-on-crime agenda and highlights his sponsorship of Measure 11, anti-stalking laws and other anti-crime bills as proof of his seriousness about protecting Oregonians. He also pledges to give every case in Oregon equal priority and take on fraudulent businesses. Mannix has served as an assistant attorney general in both Guam and Oregon, an administrative law judge, circuit court judge and state senator and representative. He received a bachelor’s degree and law degree from the University of Virginia. contact: (503) 485-2983
Hardy
Myers
Democrat
Myers has served one term as Attorney General and says his work has benefited Oregon’s society in general. He views the office as a means to protect every citizen’s basic rights and defend those rights against criminal activity. He said he has also worked to assist victims of domestic violence and establish a automated telephone notification system to update crime victims on the trials of suspects in their cases. Before being elected attorney general, Myers served as a state representative and speaker of the house, held a chair on the Oregon Criminal Justice Council and served on the Oregon Law Commission. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Mississippi and his law degree from the University of Oregon.
contact: (503) 364-4028
Secretary of State
The secretary of state oversees elections, conducts state audits, oversees apportionment of voter districts and manages state-owned lands, along with the governor and treasurer.
E.J. (Ed) Pole, II
Libertarian
Pole has been an electronics engineer at Intel Corp. since 1996, worked at IBM for 30 years and was a member of the Apollo 11 launch team. He has no prior governmental experience.
Pole has said that he would support campaign finance reform and end tax support for candidates and parties. Pole would also end tax-funded political primaries, and has said that he would protect the Oregon initiative process. He has said he would redraw voter districts to oppose partisan politics. Pole said he would also support ending term limits for elected officials.
contact: (503)648-6013, www.ejpoleii.org
Lynn Snodgrass
Republican
Snodgrass is a small business owner and Oregon House Speaker. Her prior governmental experience includes serving as State Representative [1995-present], house majority leader [1997], Speaker of the House [1999-present]. Snodgrass has been involved with the community through the Mt. Hood Medical Foundation and Habitat for Humanity.
Snodgrass’s platform is investing in accountable schools by securing funding and requiring administrative and classroom accountability. Also, Snodgrass plans on working towards a more-efficient government and fair elections, which protect voter rights and the initiative process.
contact: (503)245-9295, www.lynnsnodgrass.com
Lloyd Marbet
Pacific Green
Marbet is a citizen activist who served on the Citizen’s Utility Board from 1986-1994 and the Clackamas River Basin Council from 1996-2000.
Marbet’s platform revolves around campaign finance reform, using instant runoffs in elections to immediately determine winners and redrawing political voting districts to prevent gerrymandering.
Marbet’s campaign finance reform plan would involve reducing or banning corporations’ funds to finance campaigns, and has said that the 23 percent of registered Independent voters in Oregon are disillusioned with the amount of corporate money in political campaigns.
contact: (503)771-7254, www.marbet.org
Bill Bradbury
Democrat
Bradbury is the current secretary of state. He has also served as executive director of For the Sake of Salmon, worked as a television journalist and owned a restaurant and video production company. His prior governmental experience includes serving as State Representative [1981-1985], State Senator [1985-1995], Senate majority leader [1987-1992] and Senate president [1993-1995].
Bradbury presided over the nation’s first vote-by-mail primary election, which saw the highest voter turnout since 1988. Bradbury said he would ensure tax dollars are not wasted, protect Oregon’s natural heritage and make the owners of the New Carissa pay for clean-up costs. Bradbury has said he is also fighting to ensure the state gets the highest value for our timber products to benefit schools.
contact: (503) 233-2311, www.bradbury2000.com
The following candidates are on the Eugene ballot, although they are running uncontested.
Mayor: Jim Torrey
City Council Ward 2: Betty Taylor
City Council Ward 3: Bonny Bettman
City Council Ward 7: Scott Meisner
City Council Ward 8: Nancy Nathanson
Eugene Water and Electric Board
EWEB Wards 1 & 8: Pat Lanning
EWEB Wards 2 & 3: Dorothy Anderson
EWEB Wards 6 & 7: Sandra Bishop
U.S. House of
Representatives
The U.S. House of Representatives 4th Congressional District: This seat represents the University area along with Lane, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Linn, the northern part of Josephine and most of Benton counties.
David Duemler
Socialist
Duemler is a member of Eugene Peace Works and Citizens for Animal Rights, Eugene. He feels his activism with these groups, as well as not being a major party candidate, helps him to talk about issues other candidates won’t address. These issues include a person’s right to impart information through the mass media and the elimination of nuclear weapons. Duemler is a big supporter of the Global Action Plan to prevent war and wants to reduce investments in national security. If elected, he will continue to fight for animal rights. contact: 484-0621
John Lindsey
Republican
Lindsey is currently a Linn County Commissioner. He believes major reform is needed for Social Security and favors the plan George W. Bush supports. Lindsey also thinks government-supported health-care programs need reform. Lindsey believes Title One schools, or failing schools receiving federal money, are abusing the money they receive. He therefore supports giving vouchers to students in these failing schools so they may receive a better education. Lindsey would also like to localize crime control and focus on working together with the public, businesses and workers unions. contact: 926-2096
Peter DeFazio
Democrat
DeFazio was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1986 and has served seven consecutive terms since then. He recently helped pass legislation to protect the Steens Mountains in Southeastern Oregon and to establish an expansive wilderness area. As a member of the Progressive Caucus, DeFazio said he has invested more in education and transportation and moved away from overfunding Cold War weapons.
Next year, DeFazio said he would fight for the national surplus to be spent funding education and health care. He also said he would continue his work to get Eugene a high-speed rail line. contact: 485-1622
Judge of the Supreme Court,
Position 2
Paul J. DeMuniz
DeMuniz is a judge for the Oregon Court of Appeals, where he has served since 1990. He holds degrees from Willamette University and Portland State University and is a Vietnam veteran. Demuniz has been endorsed by former Oregon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt, University President Dave Frohnmayer, Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Noelle and several current judges.
contact: www.demuniz.com
Greg Byrne
Byrne is a business attorney and a Vietnam War veteran with degrees from Harvard Law School and South Carolina University. He has been a lawyer for 29 years and has argued dozens of cases before the Supreme Court. Byrne is endorsed by Adult Care Providers of Oregon, Crime Victims United of Oregon and state Sen. Majority Leader Gene Derfler.
Contact: www.Byrne4SC.org
State House of Representatives 41st District
This seat represents the University area and much of Eugene.
Jeff Miller
Republican
Miller served on the Eugene City Council and was mayor from 1989 to 1993. As mayor, Miller said he focused on human rights issues. Miller has owned a small insurance business in Eugene, Pacific Benefit Consultants/Eugene Insurance, for four years. Miller said he wants to improve Oregon’s health insurance by testing different methods that work in the private sector. He said he also wants to give power back to the local school districts, start prevention programs to help keep children from becoming criminals and circumvent partisan politics. contact: 343-6979, www.friendsofjeffmiller.org
Vicki L. Walker
Democrat
Walker became interested in government workings as a high school student. She earned a degree from the University in political science. She currently owns her own business as a court reporter and waited to pursue a career in politics until her children were grown. She was elected to the 41st District Seat in 1998 and served her two-year term. During her term she served on the Transportation, Trade and Economic Development, and Legislative Counsel committees. Walker said she wants to stop travel agencies from promising high school and college students quality trips and then ripping them off. Other issues Walker focused on included controlling the use of pesticides, making youth suicide prevention a priority of the state, increasing funding for secondary and higher education and cracking down on car title loans that target and take advantage of lower-income families. Walker said she worked well with both Republicans and Democrats. contact: 465-9720, www.continet.com/walker
State Treasurer
The State Treasurer works as the state’s chief banker, manages the state’s pension fund, issues state debt and oversees the use of state-owned lands along with the governor and secretary of state.
Carlos Lucero
Constitution Party
Lucero currently owns his own software contracting business. He hopes to be the voice for Hispanic people living in Oregon. Lucero said his goal would be to create a more clean, efficient and accountable state government. He would also like to increase education funding and eliminate juvenile crime.
( 503) 644-9338 [email protected]
Mitchell T. Shults
Libertarian
Shults has spent the last 20 years at Intel as director of business development for the fabric components division. He also worked on the staff of the House Committee on the Oversight of the Interior, which helped force the resignation of Jim Watt.
Shults said he would open all state lands sales to the public, would end all taxation on investment income, begin an investment in a retirement plan and allow Oregonians to opt out of receiving federally funded social security and instead receive state-funded social security. (800) 631-8292, www.shults2000.com
Jon Kvistad
Republican
Kvistad has owned and operated his own management and marketing consulting business for the past 16 years. He has also served on the Portland Metro Government since 1992 and has been elected presiding officer three times.
Kvistad said he would focus on looking out for Oregon’s environment while overseeing state-owned lands. contact: (503) 590-3282, www.kvistad.com
Randall Edwards
Democrat
Edwards is currently a state representative from Portland. Edwards also spent four years working as a senior adviser for the Oregon State Treasury. He now owns his own management and marketing consulting business.
He recently launched the College Savings Plan, which allows parents to create a tax-free savings account for their children’s college education. Edwards said his work in the Treasury has helped him gain the respect and trust of the Treasury staff. contact: (503) 255-1245, www.edwardsfortreasurer.com
Leonard Zack
Reform Party
Zack said he will focus on the environment through the development of renewable, safe, non-polluting energy sources. He also said he wants to invest in preventive health care rather than in what he called the current “disease-care plan.”
Zack said his main focus as treasurer would be to invest in industry that is profitable and sustainable.
(503) 788-5868, [email protected]
