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Tax defeat deals painful blow.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-JAN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1078 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Tax defeat deals painful blow.(Ballot Measures)(Those affected by state cuts face economic hardship and uncertain futures)

Article Excerpt
Byline: JEFF WRIGHT The Register-Guard

Kim Landis is dumbfounded. Dennis Montgomery is disgusted. Tim Cullen is disappointed.

Disabled and mentally ill Oregonians, state troopers, senior citizens and others wrestled with a flood of emotions Wednesday as they came to terms with a blunt reality: Measure 28 failed and their lives will change.

Voters handily rejected the income tax increase proposal in Tuesday's special election. Now, the state must make $310 million in additional budget cuts - including many that will take effect Saturday.

Kim Landis, 44, lives in a green and white trailer outside Brownsville. Diagnosed in 1995 with scleroderma, a progressively debilitating auto-immune disorder, the former accounting clerk is in chronic pain and unable to work.

In recent weeks she allowed herself to believe that Measure 28 would pass, based on polls and news stories that hinted it might. So the defeat was a blow: "I literally fell apart," she said. "It's a catastrophic thing."

Landis said she has...

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