November 07, 2003
Voters' Pamphlet Receives Emergency Funding For Its Centennial Year
Well, partially. After being left without funding by the last session of the Oregon Legislature, the voters' pamphlet yesterday obtained funding from the so-called Emergency Board.
But, as it turns out this funding only covers the May primary:
A committee of the legislature's emergency board has given preliminary approval to spend $373,000 on a state voters' pamphlet for May.
But lawmakers have not yet approved funding for the state-sponsored electoral guide for next year's November election.
And the elections division does not have money for a voters' pamphlet, should tax opponents force a February 3rd referendum on the legislature's budget-balancing tax hike.
An item or two of more information in this other OPB piece on the matter. Secretary of State Bill Bradbury will have to return to the Emergency Board in July to seek funding for the November voters' pamphlet.