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To: ptanner who wrote (127945)	11/10/2000 2:30:44 AM
From: ptanner	Respond to of 1570547

Why Oregon's count is slow in at least one county: kgw.com Basically everything that could go wrong did. And I heard that ballot boxes were delayed in one precinct due to a bear being outside the building... -PT

To: ptanner who wrote (127945)	11/10/2000 2:44:18 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570547

I have no idea how this one could have passed. While I didn't see a lot of advertisements on ballot measures, there was nothing on this one so people may have just read the summary and not the potential implications. I am not sure if the measure was intended to be very broad or just allowed those interpretations. It was prepared by a "professional" measure proponent (Bill Sizemore, Oregon Taxpayers United) who should be familiar with preparing coherent measures since some old ones were thrown out after passing - only to return with corrections PR, If the direct cost of $5.4 billion per year did not get anyone's attention, I don't know what would. Its such a major clue that something big was going down. Very strange....and I was upset with the passage of a Seattle proposition that will set aside $3 million to study the feasibility of a monorail system when we have a light rail system ready to go into construction. It seems that OR is getting more conservative. I know there is a lot of unhappiness wrt the land use plan in metro Portland that established the green belt around the city....the fact that its being blamed for skyrocketing housing prices and increasing densities in the city. Do you think there may be a backlash due to that? ted