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- Will either candidate consider moving away from the current model ... - damon
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- I'm a new Oregonian, having moved here from California ... - CarolRentschler
Sometimes I wonder why candidates don't travel together as they end up at the same place so often. Democratic gubernatorial candidates Bill Bradbury and John Kitzhaber have faced off on TV for KGW and the Oregonian, and in front of crowds at Willamette Women Democrats, The University of Oregon, and the state's business community. They've talked about how to create jobs and how to pay for education, whether to create a state bank and how to reform healthcare. This, of course, is only a partial list of the many appearances they've made — and the many topics they've discussed — across the state.
And this coming Monday they're doing it again — right here at OPB. But it's you who will make this conversation different from all the others. What do you really want to know from the candidates? What questions do you think they have dodged so far? What do you want to press them on? What are the issues of greatest importance to you in this important race?
You can post your questions for the candidates here or show up for the live event and have a chance to pose them in person.
This show will be recorded for TV and radio, in front of a studio audience, on Monday May 3rd at 7 pm at OPB in Portland. Everyone is welcome. Seating will be first-come, first-seated and the doors open at 6 pm.
Tagged as: 2010 election · governor
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COMMENTS: (17 total)
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What do Bradbury or Kitzhaber recommend for providing Oregonians with stable, well paying jobs and careers?
How can we afford to buy imported goods if we export and eliminate all our good-paying jobs?
How do we compel corporations to stop looking at bottom lines on their spread sheets and firing employees for little or no cause?
How do we get corporations and governments to stop destroying and polluting the environment and people with short-sighted, short-term actions or inaction?
How would you get the Federal government to stop pushing unecessary water treatment on Oregonians in the Portland region?
How do we get the Federal government to stop spending so much on military exploits so we can reallocate those resources to Americans and Oregonians who truly need help?
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Do you plan to enforce revenue producing law or do you plan to continue the practice of reducing revenue to the government?
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Will you reject any and all frivolous projects, such as Gov. Kulongoski's plan to re-name and re-sign Belt Line Highway as the "Randy Pape Beltway" when there is no good reason to pursue these projects?
I have not talked with a single person who is going to change what they call the road. It has been Belt Line for 42 years, and Belt Line it should remain. (If he wants to spend the $250K out of his own personal pocket, then that will be a different matter.)
(P.S. I'm still annoyed with the Eugene City Council for re-naming Centennial Boulevard after Dr. King. Not that a great man should not be remembered with a bridge or a street or a school, but Centennial was re-named as such back in 1959 to mark Oregon's 100th anniversary of Statehood.)
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The Oregon Department of Revenue has been reluctant to aggressively pursue tax enforcement strategies. Yet the Department itself estimates that $1.2 billion of Oregon's taxes are uncollected each year because of fraud, errors and filing but not paying.
If you are governor, what would be your directions to your director of the DOR? -
I would like to know what the candidates plan to do about the incredible levels of fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money in state government - no one in the last two administrations has appeared to be in any way serious about investigating the same. And as a corollary, what will be done to protect whistleblowers who are no longer employed by the state because they were harassed out of their positions because they asked too many pertinent questions - there is NO whistleblower protection once you are no longer employed by the state and you can and will be sued for what you know and TELL.
It is my belief that many hundreds of thousands of dollars could be saved for the state budget by cracking down on governmental fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars.
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Where do you stand on federal comprehensive immigration reform and the approach to immigrants now being taken in Arizona?
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I am a nurse pratitioner in family practice. I have patients suffering from severe psychiatric disease, some have been actively suicidal or psychotic, and I have been unable to get them into needed mental health care. This is due to a critical lack of funding that affects mental health care services from the county level, to emergent care, to inpatient services and even the lack of private providers. It is a problem for my patients with public as well as private insurance, and those without insurance.
I want to know what you will do as governor to improve access to mental health services in Oregon.
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I want to know what you will do as Governor to get people like me back to work! The current Want-wit, who sure seems like a DINO (Democrat In Name Only) hasn't done jack-sh*t to help anyone who is any sector other than the "hard-hat trades."
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This question is for the Democratic candidates for govenor. The recent federal health reform bill failed to include an amendment which would provid legal protection for states which wish to go ahead with single payer reform. According the author of the amendment, Rep Kucinich of Ohio, states which move ahead with single payer reform have been threatened with legal attack under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=128056041101)
Would you as the govener of Oregon risk litigation by moving ahead with substantive state wide reforms to the Oregon health insurance market?
Thank you
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DanSu,
It looks like states WILL be able to experiment with their own versions of healthcare — including a single-payer system. See here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/the_state-based_single_payer_s.html
Dave
David Miller — Mon May 3rd 2:18p.m.
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Please give a detailed and concise list of specific ideas that you belive will help solidify school funding so that Oregon schools will not be subject to boom and bust financial cycles.
Thanks
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One of you has said that he is proud of Democratic values which are Oregon values. The other has said he would like to move the Party and Oregon to the center, and almost ran as an independent in 2006.
Which of your approaches would be able to inspire the grassroots volunteers a Democrat will need to beat Republican donations in the fall?
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The pervasive problem with all politics, local, state and federal, is that the candidates as well as incumbents refuse to directly answer questions. It's talking points, evasion and more talking points. If a reporter or a citizen asks a candidate a question they should answer that question. I would not allow a candidate to participate in a debate unless they signed a pledge to answer questions directly. This has become the courge of all politics.
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I'm a new Oregonian, having moved here from California about a year ago. One of the first things my family and I did upon moving here was make a sort of pilgrimage to Salem, where we toured the capitol building. While we were impressed with Oregon's mandated balanced budget (especially when compared to California's dysfunctional government), we were surprised to learn about the kick back and the lack of a rainy day fund. I would much rather give up a measly kick back (I think the average is just $30) in exchange for a sustainable, secure economy and stable funding for public education. Currently, funding for public education fluctuates from one year to the next. My question is simple: do you support a rainy day fund?
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My friend Joseph McKinney and I have just co-authored a book: The End of the Road: The Transition to Safe, Green Horsepower. In it, we argue that replacing at least one family car with a very small, say Smart Car sized, ELECTRIC CAR would reduce each family's automobile carbon out put by 50%; we could keep one of our IC cars (and keep them far longer, much more economic, far less debt) until real changes are made there, but that none of this is feasible without changes in our infrastructure. No one in the administration is looking at this. Our prior (current) gov. has gone overseas for such investitures. We can prove to you we have the resources right here in Lane County; a huge investment in jobs and health at all levels. Would either of you listen to two Oregon citizens, both with some related expertise, and reconsider how we are using stimulus money on our ifrastructrue. This is no mere plug for our book; it won't make us money. But the message in it is urgent. Would you read it, discuss it with us? How can we get it to either of you. We see this as critical action. Would you be willing to fight for stimulus money to produce small ev's and invest in related infrastructure changes in Oregon? Amy Isler Gibson and Joseph McKinney, Oregon Roads, Inc., Eugene
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Will either candidate consider moving away from the current model for "dealing with the drug problem", a problem that is rooted in the laws themselves, which admittedly has created a successful "business model", if you are interested in growing the "prison-industrial complex"? Specifically, would you explicitly shift law/policy and budget/expenditure away from the "war on drugs", and apply these savings to education & health care in general (i.e. harm reduction)?
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I would like to know if either candidate will be a REAL Democrat, and provide REAL help to the Citizens of Oregon, or if they will follow in the pattern of the Oregon's Current Fool-in-Chief, who has shown himself to be a DINO, otherwise known as a Democrat In Name Only.
"I am a member of no organized political party -- I am a Democrat!" -- Will Rogers