City/Region Digest.Byline: The Regoster-Guard NORTHWEST OCA OCA oculocutaneous albinism. chairman joins race for U.S. Senate PORTLAND - Anti-gay rights activist Lon Mabon will run for the U.S. Senate as the Constitution Party nominee. Mabon, 55, chairman of the Oregon Citizens Alliance The Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) is a conservative Christian political activist organization, founded by Lon Mabon in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was founded in 1986 as a vehicle to challenge then-Senator Bob Packwood,[1] , is best known for a series of statewide and local ballot initiatives in the 1980s and '90s targeting gay rights and abortion. Mabon recently made headlines when a Multnomah County judge sent him to jail for contempt of court after Mabon refused to participate in a debtor's hearing. The OCA owes $31,500 in a civil judgment after a jury found an OCA employee used excessive force in ejecting a gay-rights advocate from a meeting. Mabon, who claimed the judge had no authority because he hadn't taken a proper oath of office An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations. , spent 42 days in jail. He was released April 3. Mabon said he entered the Senate race after being recruited by party officials and because he has become disenchanted dis·en·chant tr.v. dis·en·chant·ed, dis·en·chant·ing, dis·en·chants To free from illusion or false belief; undeceive. [Obsolete French desenchanter, from Old French, with Sen. Gordon Smith
Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is Oregon's junior United States Senator, currently serving his second term. He is a member of the Republican Party. and the Republican Party. Mabon said he is particularly against Smith's teaming with Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., to include homosexuals in a bill that would expand hate crime laws. Smith ``has embraced the homosexual agenda,'' Mabon said. |
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