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Nearly beating the odds.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-JAN-03
Format: Online - approximately 600 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Nearly beating the odds.(Editorials)(Despite disadvantages, Measure 28 polled well)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Byline: The Register-Guard

The political deck was stacked against Measure 28 from the beginning. Oregonians looking for reasons to oppose a three-year income tax surcharge had an easy time finding them. Yet Measure 28 nearly beat the odds, and certainly overcame voter apathy, to finish within shouting distance of prevailing at the polls. Gov. Ted Kulongoski and the state Legislature would be mistaken to read the results as an endorsement of the status quo in public policy.

Measure 28 confronted the same built-in core of opposition that greets any...

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