What is at stake in the 2010 General Election?

• Redistricting
• Ballot Measures
• M 70 — Expands availability of home ownership loans for Oregon veterans through Oregon War Veteran’s Fund
• M71 — Requires legislature to meet annually
• M72 — Authorizes exception to $50,000 state borrowing limit for real and personal property projects. If this measure had been in place during 2009, the State would have realized interest savings of about $38 million over the life of bonds issues that year
• M73 — Requires increased minimum sentences for certain repeated sex crimes; incarceration for repeated driving under influence; does not provide a funding source
• M74 — Establishes medical marijuana supply system, assistance, and research programs; allows limited selling of marijuana
• M75 — Authorizes commercial Multnomah County casino
• M76 — Continues lottery funding for parks, beaches, wildlife habitat, watershed protection beyond 2014
• Oregon has too many obligations and too few resources to meet them. Your vote is your voice in shaping the budget rebalance that will come in the 2011-2012 legislative session. There are legal requirements that we must meet; there are things we have told ourselves we must do; and there are our goals—the things we say we would like to do.