"Congressman Les AuCoin. Keep him." 1980 campaign pamphlet

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A campaign pamphlet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1980 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The pamphlet features of photograph of Congressman AuCoin, and describes his then recent legislative record and accomplishments, including voting no on the 1979 Chrysler bailout, taxing Social Security benefits, hiking the gas tax 10 cents, the B-1 "boondoggle" and the MX Missile, "extravagant" federal spending, and withholding interest earnings on savings; voting yes on "a truly balanced budget," helping senior citizens pay for heating bills, establishing the Solar Bank, increasing the pay for American soldiers, reforestation, new housing, the maritime fleet, and raising "the amount of interest small savers can earn." The pamphlet also describes his work helping Oregon farmers and small business owners following the Mount St. Helens eruption, keeping Amtrak's Pioneer train running, keeping downtown hotels converted into apartments for low-income seniors open, helping Tillamook lengthen their jetty, helping the town of Aloha with issues with the Post Office, and helping to reunite three orphan sisters within a Hillsboro family.

This is one of a collection of digitized objects 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).