
SALEM — Every Oregonian with a TV by now has seen a sneaky-looking chap push a ladder up to the display of the Oregon Constitution and deface it with such phrases as “Massive New Spending” and “HMOs Get Millions.”
In the run-up to the Nov. 6 election, voters also may have seen ads against Measure 50 in which black ink slashes across hand-penned words on parchment, followed by “new taxes …” typed across Oregon’s founding charter.
And who hasn’t caught a glimpse of a couple’s televised kitchen-table conversation that finishes with the presumed husband declaring: “Well, I’m not going to let them start messing with our constitution now. I’m voting no on Measure 50.” More…