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"Don Homuth" <dhomuth1@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On 24 Aug 2006 20:19:24 -0700, "lein" <boomer_the_cat@my-deja.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Don Homuth wrote:
> >> On 24 Aug 2006 19:46:20 -0700, "lein" <boomer_the_cat@my-deja.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> It was a property tax relief measure, and we
> >> did it mostly because we Could do it.
> >>
> >> Otherwise, under ND statutes, property taxes would have been higher.
> >
> >And your position on Measure 5 is?
>
> As is well known, I ran the campaing against M5 in the outstate areas,
> where it was defeated.
>
> M5 "solved" a Portland local problem with a Statewide hammer.

Actually, the problems were largely southern Oregon.
>
> Portlanders, if they believed there was a problem, ought simply to
> have voted against the operational levies, and that would have handled
> it quite nicely.
>
> Instead, they elected to turn their local government options over to
> Someone Else from Somewhere Else.

If Portland went along with the idea it was because they believed the
ranting and whining of Souther Oregonians that this was a State issue and
not just a local issue.

>
> Not a good idea - then or now.

I would think that any Portlander, with half a brain, that thought that
turning things over to the State would be beneficial to Portland is now
entirely disabused.