Oregon
“Off-year” elections do not attract the large number of referendums and issue initiatives that are typically found on ballots in presidential and congressional election years. But Tuesday, the Election Day for most states holding 2007 contests, featured a handful of ballot propositions that had national implications. The following are analyses of the outcomes of four of these measures.
It took The Oregonian’s crack number crunchers all of 13 minutes to declare Measure 49 passed and Measure 50 failed.
Linn and Benton county voters overwhelmingly sided with the majority of Oregonians who want to redefine Oregon’s land use laws in voting in favor of Measure 49. Statewide the measure passed 572,997 to 361,555.
Measure 49 passes, Measure 50 does not.
Measures 49 and 50 put weighty issues on Tuesday’s statewide ballot — issues that long have aroused residents’ passions.
For weeks, TV viewers have been greeted by images of unhappy folks who share their fears of depleted retirement savings, seized property and vanished inheritances.
In his reference to Oregon’s initiative and referendum system, Mr. Vasend seems not to understand that the Legislature, being our elected representatives, also has the constitutional right to refer an issue to “we the people” for a vote.
Whether for or against Ballot Measure 34, Baker School District voters are holding out hope for a narrow victory for their side.
Measure 4-123 offers a solution to district attorney pay statewide
In a local contest that has been thoroughly ugly, the dirtiest detail has been the expensive post card that carried the Big Lie. The lie was that Clatsop County Measure 4-123 could make our district attorney the highest paid in Oregon.
Companies pay $12 million to try to stop Measure 50
The future of Eugene’s roads and downtown area will be under consideration this election day
The tobacco money against Measure 50’s proposed cigarette tax increase keeps piling in. Philip Morris has donated another $1.1 million to the campaign, putting total contributions to that effort over $11 million.
Measure 49 wipes out property rights for Oregonians. It allows the government to take away value and use of your property without compensation.
Next week, Clatsop County voters will decide whether Joshua Marquis becomes one of the better paid district attorneys in Oregon’s smaller counties, putting to rest a question that has roiled this community for months.
A candidate for Douglas County Commissioner asked the sitting commissioners to pass a resolution opposing Ballot Measure 49, the revisions to the Measure 37 land use law that voters passed a couple of years ago.