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ELIZABETH FURSE (D) District 1 (Western Portland and suburbs...
Oregon's larger towns--including Eugene, Corvallis and Portland--are enclaves of high-tech industry, university students and environmentalists. Loggers in the Cascade Mountains, millworkers in towns like Roseburg ("Timber Capital of the Nation") and eastern Oregon farmers and ranchers, however, are more conservative, fueling the ongoing "lumber wars" and keeping the state's delegation to the House divided. In the Senate, two Republicans have held sway for nearly 30 years, but the party's dominance may be coming to an abrupt end: earlier this year, the disgraced Bob Packwood was replaced by a Democrat, and now Mark Hatfield...
...Berkeley, Calif. EDUCATION: U of California at Santa Barbara, B.A., 1968; U of Wisconsin, M.S., 1972; Pepperdine U, M.B.A., 1975 FAMILY: Wife, Kelley; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Army, 1968-70 OCCUPATION: Software-company owner POLITICAL CAREER: Oregon board of higher education, 1988-92 ADDRESS: 477 Southwest 11th Avenue, Portland...
BORN: Oct. 13, 1936, Nairobi, Kenya EDUCATION: Evergreen State College, B.A., 1974 FAMILY: Husband, John Platt; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Community activist POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: 9220 Southwest Barbur, No. 114, Portland...
...G.O.P. high hopes for victory this time around. A pro-choice and pro-environment liberal who would balance the budget in part by cutting Pentagon funding, Furse has earned a 100% rating from the American Federation of Teachers and the League of Conservation Voters, and has the support of Portland's "Silicon Forest," home to prosperous employers like Intel...