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news2010 INDEPENDENT PARTY PRIMARY ELECTION: DEMONSTRATION PAGETHE 2010 INDEPENDENT PARTY PRIMARY ELECTION WILL BE HELD JULY 8 THROUGH JULY 30
This page will be the actual location provided to Independent Party members when the election commences on July 8th at 8:00 am. Independent Party Caucus: Voting to continue until Feb 28thThere are three candidates nominated for two positions on the IPO statewide caucus. Voting opened in February and will end on February 28th. All IPO members are eligible and all are encouraged to vote. If you are authenticated on the web site, you need to log in in order to vote. If you have not been authenticated on the web site, you may register for the web site. If you have problems registering and voting you may contact the party using this contact form. If you have been authenticated as a member and have access to the web site, please VOTE HERE Here are the candidates:
Oregon Governor Money RaceOne way to track the viability of a campaign is to track how much money is being raised. So without further adieu, here are the cash balances of the campaigns as of April 10, 2010: CANDIDATE ----------------------------- Dudley $ 470,000 Kitzhaber $ 614,000 Bradbury $ 141,000 Alley $ 72,000 Note that these are cash balances only and do not reflect the debt of each campaign. For example, the Alley campaign owes about $220,000 to the candidate's wife. The Oregon Attorney General is not enforcing any of the limits on campaign contributions enacted by the voters as Measure 47 (2006), so a labor union, corporation, or wealthy individual can wipe out any advantage with a single large contribution. Contributions of $100,000 by individuals and $300,000 or more from OEA and SEIU would not be out of the ordinary in an Oregon Governor's race. In 2006, the Republican Governor's Association spent more than $4 million for the Republican candidate for Governor in Oregon. Revisiting Paul Tsongas and the Sensible Center
by Senator Paul Tsongas The following piece by Paul Tsongas describes the "sensible center" in American politics as fiscally conservative, socially inclusive, supportive of the environment and of campaign finance reform. Not much has changed in the 15 years since he wrote it. - editor If you are ever in front of an audience and searching for an engaging topic, try this: suggest there is a "passionate center" to the American body politic -- or "sensible center," as Colin Powell would say, or "radical center" as others would argue. Suggest that this center is held together by four basic points of agreement. First, it is fiscally conservative. It strongly supports a balanced budget -- not so much because of the economic consequences of large-scale debt but because of the irresponsibility such debt symbolizes. While it is true that a balanced budget will reduce interest rates and free up capital to enhance America's global competitiveness, the passion for fiscal responsibility really flows from people's adamant opposition to saddling their children with a $5 trillion debt. Second, the passionate center is socially inclusive and protective of individual liberties. Most Americans are not racist or sexist. Increasing numbers accept homosexuality. Polls show, unsurprisingly, that most Democratic and independent women are pro-choice, but they also show that most Republican women are pro-choice as well. Third, it is pro-environment. Where did anyone get the idea that Americans were so fed up with Federal regulations that they would want Congress to gut the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act? Or to open up wildlife refuges to oil companies? Or to support any of the myriad bonehead ideas of the last year? Most Americans, especially the young, see the environment as fundamental to their quality of life, as a legacy to be protected, not a place to be plundered for the profit of the few. Fourth, the passionate center wants campaign finance reform. Americans are sickened by political action committees owning Congress and by "soft money" funds that evade campaign laws to benefit the very people who passed those laws. When President Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich shook hands in New Hampshire in June and agreed to strengthen campaign laws, most Americans doubted that they were serious. As the weak "reform" package passed by Congress shows, the skeptics were right. Follow the campaign money“When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.” Anyone who has been following politics in Oregon or at the national level knows that our political system has become increasingly polarized and divided along partisan lines. It’s an unfortunate sign of our times that seemingly every major issue facing the country eventually becomes a straight party-line debate. Statesman-Journal Article on SB 326
Peter Wong Minor political parties and independent candidates will get a boost from an elections bill that Democratic Gov. Ted Kulongoski plans to sign. Senate Bill 326, which cleared the Legislature on its final day June 29, does two things. It repeals a 2005 law that bars voters from signing nomination petitions for a partisan public office in a general election if they already cast Democratic or Republican ballots in a primary election. The law made it more difficult for candidates not affiliated with a party to qualify for the ballot. It also allows candidates on a general-election ballot to list nominations by a maximum of three political parties, instead of just one. This proposal has been described as "fusion light," based on what is done in seven other states, but advocates say it simply returns Oregon law to what it was prior to 50 years ago. WW Editorial: Why won’t Democratic leaders let two election reform bills come up for a vote?
Democratic legislative leaders have consigned two highly popular electoral reform bills to oblivion in the final days of the 2009 session. The bills’ dormancy reveals two things: how ruthlessly D’s will protect their hard-won turf from minor parties and how keen the Oregon Education Association is to maintain the current system. House Bill 2414 would allow general-election ballots to show candidates carrying the nomination of up to three parties, so that, say, a Democrat could also be endorsed by the Pacific Green Party or a Republican by the Libertarian Party. Despite sailing through the House 53-7 on March 31, the so-called “fusion voting” measure is stuck in the Senate Rules Committee. There, committee chairman Sen. Richard Devlin (D-Tualatin) has declined to move the bill, although a bipartisan letter from 16 of Oregon’s 30 senators asked him to send the bill to the Senate floor for a vote. |
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