Ballot Measure numbers are now assigned
Kari Chisholm
The Oregon elections division has now released the numbers of the various ballot measures that voters will see on the fall ballot.
70: Amends Constitution: Expands availability of home ownership loans for Oregon veterans through Oregon War Veterans' Fund (Referral from the Oregon Legislature)
71: Amends Constitution: Requires legislature to meet annually; limits length of legislative sessions; provides exceptions (Referral from the Oregon Legislature)
72: Amends Constitution: Authorizes exception to $50,000 state borrowing limit for state's real and personal property projects (Referral from the Oregon Legislature)
73: Requires increased minimum sentences for certain repeated sex crimes, incarceration for repeated driving under influence (Chief Petitioners: James Thompson, Kevin Mannix, Glenn Pelikan)
74: Establishes medical marijuana supply system and assistance and research programs; allows limited selling of marijuana (Chief Petitioners: Anthony Johnson, Alice J. Ivany, James Klahr)
75: Authorizes Multnomah County casino; casino to contribute monthly revenue percentage to state for specified purposes (Chief Petitioners: Matt Rossman, Bruce Studer)
76: Amends Constitution: Continues lottery funding for parks, beaches, wildlife habitat, watershed protection beyond 2014; modifies funding process (Chief Petitioners: William Thorndike, Jr., Mary Susan Pape, Brian Booth)
On Friday, a judge in Marion County ruled that the proponents of a casino in Wood Village have until August 20 to make their case that their proposed constitutional amendment should be on the ballot as well.
Use this space to discuss this year's crop of ballot measures. What do you think?
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2:35 p.m.
Aug 2, '10
I'll be waiting to see the final financial estimates on some of these measures before I make any final decisions. But I do know that I'm not in favor of 73 (Mannix's increased incarceration measure) or 75 (casino measure).
4:38 p.m.
Aug 2, '10
Agreed, though I am leaning heavily in favor of Measure 71. That we still only have a biennium Legislature here in the 21st century is anachronistic retrograde throwback at best (and that's being charitable since my more forthright view would be describing fertilizer produced by nocturnal flying mammals).
6:06 p.m.
Aug 2, '10
I'm also leaning toward yes on 71, although I want to see precisely how's it written (and yes, I could find out but I'm busy and there's plenty of time before the election).
3:35 p.m.
Aug 2, '10
I've seen analysis that marijuana measures help the Dem. turnout. So, "Go Medical Marijuana!"
4:54 p.m.
Aug 2, '10
it also is going to lead to more clueless messages on my home phone. My phone number used to belong to a medical marijuana card place. it's still posted all over the internet. the more medical marijuana is in the news, the more calls we get. If I start averaging over 5 messages a day, i will be changing my number. it amazes me how few people pay attention to the outgoing message.
5:38 p.m.
Aug 2, '10
Wait, you mean people smoking pot might not be paying attention and understanding what a recorded message might be saying?
Who'da thunk that?
;)
9:58 a.m.
Aug 3, '10
I know! Right?!
:D
I actually had one guy the other day call twice and leave the same message. within an hour of each other.
2:13 p.m.
Aug 3, '10
There may be a good side business opportunity here you are missing. Take-out/delivery of chips and other munch snack-foods. You could make a killing with a delivery service of Pringles and Ho-Ho's.
3:25 p.m.
Aug 3, '10
I'm headed out right now to buy a case each of Funyuns and Chicken in a Biskit...
4:26 p.m.
Aug 4, '10
Such compassion on display!
4:26 p.m.
Aug 4, '10
Such compassion on display!
4:27 p.m.
Aug 4, '10
I hit the button once. Really.
9:25 p.m.
Aug 2, '10
70 - Yes 71 - No, see no reason for them to become 'full-time'. 72 - Have no idea what this is about. 73 - No 74 - Dude! 75 - No 76 - no, although all this does is guarantee another measure in a few years. The lottery needs to go back to education.
2:22 p.m.
Aug 3, '10
No on reason at all to vote yes on Measure 71? Really?
Aside from the fact that as Senator Bonamici points out, that isn't what this measure does, I find it truly odd that you can think of no reason why we should not have full-time legislators. So no reason at all to have our legislators should be focused full time on the vast and complex issues and areas in which our laws and government function?
No reason to have the people writing our laws being focused on that instead of trying to keep one eye on trying to make ends meet since they get paid less than min. wage for being a legislator?
Um, ok.
5:51 a.m.
Aug 4, '10
Mitchell, with all respect to Senator Bonamici and others, our government was never intended to be made so complex and vast as to require full time legislators. That leads to special interest politics and professional politicians more interested in their next re-election campaign than what is best for the constituents.
I'm more in favor of the jeffersonian model as played by Dr. Gilmour in Jackson County. serve, do some good and then get out and go back home.
6:23 p.m.
Aug 4, '10
Good grief. We don't live in the 19th century. You might want to join us here in the 21st century, and I humbly suggest that it might behoove you to stop pretending that the halcyon days of 19th century America was anything worth returning too.
11:42 p.m.
Aug 4, '10
I agree Mitchell. My 21st century doesn't include an all encompassing state or federal government so complex as to require professional, career politicians.
10:03 p.m.
Aug 2, '10
Kurt: Measure 71 is a proposal for annual sessions, not a proposal for a full-time legislature. It also limits the number of days in each session. In fact, if 71 passes we will be meeting for fewer days than in many prior sessions.
2:16 p.m.
Aug 3, '10
Personally, I am all in favor of full-time legislators. There is zero rational argument why we need to have a 19th century model of legislature based on the need for legislators to be back on the farm for harvest season.
3:54 a.m.
Aug 3, '10
I'm getting progressively angrier about minimum sentencing laws tying judges hands, filling up prisons, and ballooning our budget. The sad genius of them is that opponents can so easily be painted as soft on crime, but there is no evidence that laws like these have a positive effect on crime, while there is evidence that prison time makes one more likely to commit worse crimes. Kevin Mannix is bad news
10:00 a.m.
Aug 3, '10
Interested in seeing the results of an in-depth public review of Measures 73 & 74? Check out the Citizens' Initiative Review over at www.healthydemocracyoregon.org.
We'll be convening the state's first legislatively empowered pilot of this new reform to the initiative process during the weeks of 8/9 and 8/16. It's a great opportunity to engage the public in a more robust discussion about ballot measures.
11:58 a.m.
Aug 3, '10
More minimum sentencing usually means more prisons and no money allocated to build them. So we get to take money from schools and essential services to pay for a new prison construction program and the staff to run them. I wish there was a requirement that ballot measures had to list the impact on state budgets.
12:30 p.m.
Aug 3, '10
Kurt: Measure 72 is a measure that will allow the state to finance many of its construction projects through full faith & credit bonds rather than lease financing as we do now. It’s a more secure form of financing, which means the lenders are willing to accept lower interest rates.
That all means that the state saves millions of dollars in interest payments. It does NOT create new debt capacity (except a bit through interest rate savings), but merely allows new projects to go forward at a better interest rate and existing projects to be refinanced. End result: More money in these projects is directed towards creating jobs and projects in Oregon rather than towards interest payments we never see again.
(This explanation constitutes neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the State Treasury)
Bill: There is such a requirement. It's contained in ORS 250.125 and the resulting Estimate of Financial Impact will appear in the Voters Pamphlet.
2:34 p.m.
Aug 3, '10
Is there any reason to vote yes on 70? Do we need a special home buying program targeted just at veterans?
2:52 p.m.
Aug 3, '10
Given that Vets make up the largest segment of homeless people, yes.
6:34 p.m.
Aug 4, '10
I don't quite know how to respond. I'd almost think your response was tongue on cheek.
A home buying program targeted at homeless people? Is that really wise public policy right after a historic housing bust?
However, even if the goal is to get homeless people into homes, why target such a program at veterans?
4:41 p.m.
Aug 4, '10
Anyone know the demographics? Are these Viet Nam era vets or the freshly demobbed?