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Voters love [Portland OR Mayor Tom] Potter, spurn plan
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem May 18, 2005 09:04pm |
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| Category | Poll |
| Media | Newspaper - Oregonian, The (Portland) |
| News Date | Thursday, May 19, 2005 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A poll shows the mayor is highly popular, but Portlanders oppose public financing of campaigns, due for a council vote today
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
ANNA GRIFFIN
Portland Mayor Tom Potter is still riding the wave of good feeling that carried him into office last year, but rougher times are coming: A new poll conducted for The Oregonian and KATU (2) shows that a majority of registered voters in the city oppose the City Council's plan to use taxpayer money to pay for municipal elections.
Potter, whose approval rating is at a whopping 71 percent in the poll, says voters will like the idea more once they see it in action. Barring a last-minute surprise, that will happen soon: The City Council is expected to approve public financing today, just in time for the 2006 elections.
The poll also asked voters what they think about Potter's decision to pull Portland out of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the city's bid to purchase Portland General Electric and any proposal to extend the Multnomah County income tax.
Under the campaign-financing plan proposed by Commissioner Erik Sten and Auditor Gary Blackmer, Portland voters won't weigh in until 2010.
"We want to show people how it works and then ask them to vote," Sten said Tuesday. "We don't just want them voting on a concept."
That's a wise delay for proponents, pollster Tim Hibbitts said: "If it were placed before the public now, it would lose and lose badly."
Hibbitts and his colleagues at Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall Inc. polled 300 registered voters over the weekend and on Monday. The margin of error in their survey is plus or minus 5.6 percentage points. |
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