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Article: Clobbered everywhere.(Editorials)(County income tax had no support base)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2007
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Lane County's proposed income tax for public safety fared best in the district of the commissioner who did the most to defeat it. Yet even Peter Sorenson's south Eugene district voted against the income tax on the May 15 ballot. Voters rejected Measure 20-129 countywide, and recently released precinct-by-precinct returns reveal no base for an encore.
The income tax passed in only six of the county's 83 precincts. All six are in the south and central parts of Eugene: the College Hill neighborhood, the areas immediately south and east of the University of Oregon, and downtown. It passed in only one of Eugene's eight City Council ...