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Sexual harassment issue
‘crops up’ at Legislature
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM — When supplanted
with power, sexual attraction
can become ugly. Employees
quick enough to repel the ad
vances of their boss often find
themselves unemployed and
"uncooperative” students may
receive lower grades than ex
pected. Last week, reports of
harassment cropped up in the
Legislature.
Wednesday, KASH’s Randy
Lawrence reported that a Port
land General Electric lobbyist,
Mike Bakkela, was using his po
sition to demand sexual favors
from legislative employees.
When one 18-year-old commit
tee assistant refused, Bakkela
allegedly slapped her. Two days
later she went to the hospital but
was not admitted.
By Friday, the story circulated
around the capitol, but no other
stories were written. Most
reporters were not interested,
and those that were hesitated
for fear of legal action.
PGE had allegedly been made
aware of the incident and, citing
a company policy of rehabilita
tion, not dismissal, sent Bakkela
to therapy and put him back on
the job.
In a Friday morning interview,
one of the male legislators close
to the incident expressed
satisfaction with the way the
company had handled the sit
uation.
“I know he was taking some
treatment and going to a psy
chiatrist to find out if there was a
problem. He’s a fine young man,
he's really a good boy and a
good friend of a lot of us down
here.”
An hour later, though, Rep.
Margie Hendriksen, D-Eugene,
expressed a totally different
view. Hendriksen said that as a
female legislator with female
legislative
issues
k.
employees, she was offended
that the company had returned
Bakkela to the building.
“That's usually not the way
we deal with problems," Hen
driksen said. “If we feel people
have acted in a way that’s inap
propriate, usually they have to
be called to task, and they have
to bear the consequences of
that behavior."
Bakkela is no longer working
as a lobbyist at the Legislature.
Current law says that com
mercial fishermen and officers
of sports fishing organizations
can’t serve on the Fish and
Wildlife Commission, the body
that sets seasons and allowable
catches. Monday, the Senate
barely defeated a move to
change that. By a vote of 16-14,
the body bowed to arguments
that those with a financial inter
est shouldn't be in charge of the
resource.
Sen. Del Isham, D-Lincoln
City, however, contended that it
makes sense to have people
involved in the industry on the
commission because they know
more about fish than many
others.
“We’ve made the decision in
Oregon that citizens should be
able to participate in their
government," Isham said.
“Where they have a conflict,
that should be publicly known. I
think that is a good concept and
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should be extended to the Fish
and Wildlife Commission.”
After the measure failed, one
senator who voted for the
proposal changed his vote to
no. The alteration allows him to
move for reconsideration of the
measure today.
The Reagan administration
has proposed cuts in Amtrak
subsidies that many believe will
cripple the system. Monday,
Sen. George Wingard, R
Eugene, told his colleagues that
it is unfair to zero in on one
segment of transportation.
“Most of you don’t realize it,
but your airline ticket is sub
sidized more than your rail tick
et,” Wingard said. “And, if you
consider all the money that goes
into the highway system you
would find a heavy subsidy al
most equal to your rail ticket.
“So if we’re going to cut back,
we should cut back in a fair and
equitable manner.”
The Senate sent Congress a
message urging that it recon
sider the transportation budget
Reagan submitted.
Atiyeh picks
two reps for
power panel
SALEM (AP) - Pacific North
west governors announced
their appointees Monday to a '
new council that will help deter
mine how the region develops
and doles out its limited energy
resources.
The delegates named by
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Montana all are subject to con
firmation by the respective state
legislatures. The council was
created by the Pacific North
west Electric Power Planning
and Conservation Act passed by
Congress last year.
Oregon Gov. Vic Atiyeh
named his two choices within
minutes of final legislative ap
proval of a bill imposing strict
conflict-of-interest restrictions
on the council members. Com
pared to the Oregon bill, legis
lation passed last month by the
other three states gives their
governors virtual carte blanche.
Atiyeh named former Oregon
Court of Appeals Chief Judge
Herbert Schwab and Roy Hem
mingway, a special assistant to
the public utility commissioner,
to the board.
Atiyeh, a Republican, said he
was confident Schwab and
Hemmingway would be “excel
lent representatives of our state
on the council as it develops
plans for the future power needs
in our four-state region at the
lowest possible cost.”
BPA Acting Administrator
Earl Gjelde sent a telegram to all
the council appointees congra
tulating them on their nomina
tions.