Multnomah County still has 152,000 votes to count and we’re all on edge to see how that last lode of ballots will tip the razor thin margin in the Merkley-Smith race (as of noon today, Smith is 10,000 votes ahead). In the meantime, most of the local levies are all polling so far ahead that they seem to be shoe-ins for sure. Check out the results:

Children’s Levy
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,782 70.17
No. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,703 29.83

Zoo Levy
Multnomah County:
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,098 57.66
No. . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,652 42.34
Clackamas County:
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,367 55.24
No. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,947 44.76

PCC
Multnomah County
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,729 61.84%
No. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,269 38.16%
Clackamas County
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,231 54.79%
No. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,793 45.21%
Washington County
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,203 43.72%
No. . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,111 56.28%
Columbia County
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,349 30.33%
No. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,289 69.67%
Yamhill County
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,187 51%
No . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,719 48%
so current totals: YES -> 175,699
NO -> 177,181
edit: thanks to commenter GLV for pointing out PCC’s low results in other counties! P.C.C. public affairs manager Dana Haynes has been watching the results come in all day. He says the levy was 4,000 votes behind when he ate breakfast, 2,000 behind when he got to campus, 1,000 behind during lunch and now 180 behind. As I’m talking to him on the phone RIGHT NOW, he says the tally just went positive 137 votes. The bulk of the remaining votes, he says, are from Multnomah County, so while he’s too superstitious to call the election, he says right now his team is “cautiously optimistic.” While they’re sweating out the final results, I want to thank Columbia County for voting against investing in education. What’s the deal with that? Do they hate urban college educated elites? Taxes? Those fuckers should note that every dollar governments have invested in P.C.C. has had a $6.10 cumulative return.

…sorry, voting against education funding always pisses me off.

Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books.

4 replies on “Local Levies MIGHT All Pass”

  1. Yeah, you might want to consult more sources. People outside of MultCo voted on Zoo and PCC levies. The Trib is reporting that the PCC is failing, and they have much larger vote totals than you do.

  2. goddammit, I totally forgot about the weight of other counties voting on PCC. Thanks for pointing it out, GLV, and I’ll dig up that data now.

  3. Yet another reason to hate Washington and Columbia county suburbanite trash. Of all those things, the Zoo levy is probably the least important, while the other two are critically essential for the well-being of Oregon’s future. You have to consider that PCC students are likely native (or at least have gone to high school here or something) Oregonians or low income and that they are most likely to stay here keeping money in and contributing to the local and state economy in a bunch of other ways.

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