The more damning thing that wasn't mentioned by the RG which Earl wrote was this:

Even more curious is his claim that he was a student leader for lowering the voting age while attending Willamette University. Ron didn’t arrive at Willamette as a freshman until the Fall of 1972, 15 months after we ratified the amendment in 1971 Legislative Session. Was he somehow active at Willamette, a year before he was accepted as a student?

Sorry, Earl is way to polite and cautious about making declarative statements, but I will gladly call Saxton a lying bullshit artist who made the claim up out of whole cloth and is trying to walk it back even though Earl is too polite to say it explicitly. Yeah, it's possible that Saxton had a time travel machine and retroactively helped out at WU, but I think we can dispense with the James Cameron plot device and the less than credible claim that he was traipsing over to WU some year and a half before he started attending to help secure student voting rights. Sorry Ron, and your spokesman hack... I call bullshit.

Actually, the RG did mention it - and included a BS answer from Felix the Cat:

The Democratic congressman also labeled as "curious" Saxton's claim that he was one of the leaders of the movement while at Willamette, given that the voting age amendment had been ratified by the Oregon Legislature in 1971, which predated Saxton's 1972 enrollment at Willamette University. Schein explained that Saxton wasn't able to recall during the candidates forum whether the Legislature finished its work on the voting age in 1971 - when he was in high school - or in 1973, by which time he was a college student.

Yeah, he was makig wild-ass claims even though he couldn't remember the actual facts -- more faith-based politics from the local Bushie clones