CASE STUDY: Project Protect
Pac/West was challenged to support the Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI) and pass the Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA) with bi-partisan support. The goal was to empower federal land managers with the tools to implement scientifically supported management practices on overstocked federal forests, while establishing new conservation programs focused on improving water quality and regenerating declining forest ecosystem types on non-federal lands.
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CASE STUDY: Ballot Measures 63 and 65
During the 2008 election Pac/West worked with a broad coalition of organizations, labor, businesses, community groups and individuals to defeat ballot measures 63 and 65 in Oregon. Oregonians won an important victory in defeating Ballot Measure 63, which would have allowed unsafe building projects to take place without regulation.
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CASE STUDY: Ballot Measure 2
In 2008, Pac/West managed a campaign to defeat a contentious wildlife management ballot measure in the State of Alaska. Aerial predator management was used by the state to control predator populations and boost key game animal populations. National animal rights activists invested over $750,000 in a campaign to ban aerial predator management in Alaska. Through insightful research, Pac/West was able to develop persuasive measures and identify key voter blocks. We were able to lead the campaign to victory, despite being outspent by two to one and fighting an issue that voters had overwhelming approved twice in the past.
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Case Study: Ballot Measure 12: Prevailing Wage
In 1994, Pac/West was hired by a coalition of citizens, workers and employers to oppose Ballot Measure 12, which sought to repeal prevailing wage law on public works projects.
Pac/West’s campaign team worked with Oregonians to Maintain Community Standards to educate Oregonians about misleading information being disseminated about prevailing wage law, and to inform voters about the benefits of fair wages to Oregon’s community and economy.
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CASE STUDY: Jenson and Smith Campaigns
In 2009, Oregon's Legislative Session was dominated by gaps in the state budget caused by the 2008 collapse of the financial system. Despite pressure from within their own political party to not compromise with Democrats on a budget balancing deal, both Representative Bob Jenson (R, Pendleton) and Representative Greg Smith (R, Heppner) rejected the ideological pressures permeating from a faction of their party rigidly opposed to compromise.
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CASE STUDY: This Doesn’t Smell Right! Campaign
When a San Francisco-based garbage company, Recology, was approved for a conditional use permit to process food waste in the heart of Lents in Portland, Pac/West was hired to spearhead a powerful public information campaign that would rally neighbors to support an appeal of the permit and put a stop to the company’s harmful activities. Pac/West’s campaign, dubbed, “This Doesn’t Smell Right!” effectively mobilized the community to speak out against Recology and the city’s plans to allow a food waste transfer site to be located in residents’ backyards. Before the appeal was filed, only a handful of neighbors were aware of the garbage company’s plans to stink up the community. But, in a period of only a few weeks, Pac/West reached out to thousands of residents and put the spotlight on the issue.
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CASE STUDY: Ballot Measure 38: Don’t Fence Oregon
In the spring of 1996 a coalition of natural resource-based organizations hired Pac/West to develop and implement a campaign against Ballot Measure 38 in Oregon. BM 38 sought to require private landowners to fence their property in order to keep livestock away from all streams and bodies of water.
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