Measures: Some get big bucks, some don't.Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard ELECTION 2006 SALEM - Oregon's slate of ballot-measure campaigns are falling into two camps - the haves and the have-nots - when it comes to campaign contributions, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Monday's financial disclosures. Of the 10 measures on the Nov. 7 ballot, five of them accounted for 94 percent of the $8.5 million in combined contributions reported between June 6 and Sept. 21. The biggest draws were also the most lopsided lop·sid·ed adj. 1. Heavier, larger, or higher on one side than on the other. 2. Sagging or leaning to one side. 3. contests. The insurance industry nationwide pooled $3.74 million for its high-profile, TV-dominated campaign to defeat Measure 42, which would ban the industry from using credit scores to set premiums. The campaign pushing the measure did not report any financial activity. It wasn't the only case in which one side's campaign cash dwarfed the other's. In the combined effort to defeat both Measure 41, a $400 million-a-year tax cut, and Measure 48, a spending limit similar to the one passed in Colorado but recently suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. , the group Defend Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. reported contributions of $1.9 million from unions, corporations and other organizations. The campaign to pass the tax cut, led by an Oregon branch of the Washington, D.C.-based FreedomWorks, reported contributions of $13,825. The group trying to pass the spending cap raised $131,907 for its so-called Rainyday Amendment campaign. Another one-sided race for money appeared among the campaigns over the term-limits initiative, Measure 45. The pro group reported $1.25 million, thanks to the contribution of that amount it received from a group led by New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of investor and conservative activist Howard Rich Howard Rich is a libertarian political activist and real estate developer in New York City. Rich's political activity is focused on financing ballot initiatives in numerous states. . A few lobbying groups and unions kicked in $85,440 to fight the measure, which would cap the number of terms that could be served in the Legislature. The only other initiative to draw money approaching the million-dollar mark was Measure 43, which would require doctors to notify parents before providing an abortion to a teenager Teenager See also Adolescence. Ah, Wilderness! high-school senior has problems with girls and his father. [Am. Drama: O’Neill Ah, Wilderness! in Sobel, 15] Aldrich, Henry teenaged film character of the 1940s. [Am. . The campaign to defeat the measure collected $706,124 while the pro-side reported raising $207,030. The other measures, which would require statewide judges to be elected by geographic boundaries, allow uninsured Oregonians to buy discounted drugs through a state purchasing pool, limit campaign contributions, and ban the condemnation Condemnation bell, book, and candle symbols of Catholic excommunication rite. [Christianity: Brewer Note-Book, 85] Bridge of Sighs passage from Doge’s court to execution chamber in Renaissance Venice. [Ital. Hist. of private land if it's being transferred to a developer, accounted for a combined $485,552, or 6 percent of the total raised for this fall's initiative campaigns. MEASURES AND MONEY Here's how much each side has raised in the campaigns over Oregon's ballot measures. The figures are for the period from June 6 to Sept. 21: Measure 39 (condemnation): Pro: $12,038 Con: $0 Measure 40 (judge elections): Pro: $306,935 Con: $58,600 Measure 41 (tax cut) and Measure 48 (spending limit): Pro: $13,825 (Measure 41), $131,907 Con: $1.9 million Measure 42 (insurance/credit rating): Pro: $0 Con: $3.7 million Measure 43 (parental notification): Pro: $207,030 Con: $706,124 Measure 44 (prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, costs): Pro: $68,639 Con: $0 Measure 45 (term limits): Pro: $1.3 million Con: $85,440 Measure 46, Measure 47 (campaign finance reform Campaign finance reform is the common term for the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns. ): Pro: $0 Con: $39,340 |
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