VOTE NO on 3. As a Portland City Commissioner, I introduced the first ordinance in the country to take away the cars of repeat drunk drivers. The effect in Portland was dramatic. From 1994 to 1995 while drunk driving was on the increase nationally, we saw a 42 percent decrease in drunk driving in Portland. I strongly believe in the effectiveness of vehicle forfeiture as a simple, common sense tool for law enforcement to keep drunk drivers off the road.
People are frustrated and dismayed that chronic offenders continue to drive drunk.
They should be. People who repeatedly drive drunk should lose their cars because, in their hands, a car is a weapon. We will never know the feelings of the people whose lives have been snuffed out by drunk drivers. But consider how their loved ones feel about drunks who destroy the lives in family after family because no one will take cars away from them. Please vote NO on Ballot Measure 3.