Les AuCoin Collection

Collection of televised congressional race interviews and debates video recording

A long video recording featuring multiple televised debates, advertisements, and interviews between the candidates of the 1984 and 1986 congressional race for Oregon's 1st Congressional District, Democratic incumbent Les AuCoin and Republican challengers Bill Moshofsky and Tony Meeker. The first debate featured in the video was between AuCoin and Moshofsky and was held at the City Club of Portland in 1984; topics discussed in the debate included the logging industry, tax reform, federal spending, the federal budget and the Oregon state budget, the Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) light rail system, school prayer, and environmental protection for the Columbia River Gorge, among other issues. The second clip featured in the video was a KATU 2 joint interview between AuCoin and Meeker from 1986; discussed topics included the logging and fishing industries in Oregon, the federal and state budget, federal spending, and tax reform. The third clip featured in the video was a KGW 8 program that individually interviewed candidates AuCoin and Moshofsky for the 1984 election; the candidates discussed the issues of tax reform, the federal budget and spending, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and a Columbia River hatcheries program. The fourth clip featured in the video was a KPTV 12 program called "Your Choice '84," a program in which several candidates for various Oregon elections are quickly interviewed in a cheery atmosphere; in this interview, candidates for Oregon's 1st District were featured. AuCoin, Moshofsky, and Philip Logan discussed the situations in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the arms race, tax reform, and the national budget deficit. The final clips are various televised AuCoin campaign ads from the 1976 and 1978 elections.

This is a digitized version of an analog videorecording from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).

KATU 2

KGW 8

KPTV 12

Re-elect Les AuCoin Committee

1976-1986

PUA_MS147_vid_027

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Political campaigns--United States.

Oregon--Politics and government.

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 147 min)

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Pacific University Archives

MP4