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style="font-size: 11pt;"><big><b>A Message from Harry Lonsdale and Dan
Meek</b></big></span><br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>The Oregon primary again demonstrated that
Big Money dominates elections in Oregon.</b></span></font><br>
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</span>Corporate executive Loren Parks (medical devices) contributed
$713,100 to Kevin Mannix's campaign -- about 40% of the money Mannix
raised. Parks also spent $170,000 on radio ads attacking Mannix's
main opponent, Ron Saxton. Saxton, no slouch himself in the
money-raising department, received $100,000 from Rod Wendt of the
Jeld-Wen Co. of Klamath Falls and another $100,000 from Bill Swindells,
former CEO of Willamette Industries, among his larger contributors
(both from the wood products industry).<br>
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The Grande Rhonde tribes spent $820,000 in so-called "independent
expenditures" against Kevin Mannix (R) and Ted Kulongoski (D), because
they support the proposal of the Warm Springs Tribe to site a new
casino in Cascade Locks, 35 miles east of Portland area -- much closer
than the Grande Rhonde's casino 75 miles southwest of Portland.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Even the race
for Oregon Supreme Court justice "Smashed Cash Record" (<i>The Oregonian</i>,
May 9), with the biggest spender, Jack Roberts, winning into the
general election by spending </span>over $400,000 in the primary. He
got a $150,000 contribution from political arm of the National
Association of Manufacturers, the nation's largest corporate lobbying
group. He also got $50,000 from Loren Parks and hundreds of thousands
of dollars from corporate interests.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span></span><br>
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style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>All this, and we're still 6 months away
from the General Election!</b></span><br>
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt;">With 6 weeks remaining to qualify
real campaign finance reform for the November ballot, every bit of
support at
this critical time makes a huge difference</span></u><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span><br>
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Over a thousand citizens across
Oregon have taken up the challenge of reforming the way political
campaigns are run in Oregon—by
working to put campaign finance reform to a vote this November</span></u><span
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If you can do a small part (or a little more), right now, to help with
Campaign Finance Reform Initiatives 8 and 37, we can take back our
state
and local governments from special interest groups, corporations, and
other Big
Money campaign donors. You can help by gathering some signatures or
making a donation.<span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></u><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Join with the
Oregon Sierra Club, OSPIRG, Health Care for All Oregon and many more, to<b>
get Big Money out of Oregon politics.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fairelections.net">www.fairelections.net</a></span><br>
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Tyrone Reitman<br>
Fair Elections Oregon Outreach Coordinator<br>
<a href="mailto:outreach@fairelections.net" target="_blank"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">outreach@fairelections.net</a><br>
541-338-8557<br>
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FairElections Oregon<br>
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onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.fairelections.net</a><br>
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