ELECTION 2016
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016
VOLUME 89, NUMBER 46
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Key measures
that could
impact farmers
TRUMP
ON AG
Oregon
Market value of ag products:
$5.4 billion
Number of farms: 34,600
Measure 97 — The Oregon
Business Tax Increase Initiative
What it is: A tax increase on C-corporations
earning more than $25 million in the state of
Oregon. “C-corporation” is an IRS designation for
businesses that pay their own taxes.
Status: Failed †
“For an industry built by and reliant on foreign labor,
the big question that looms is labor and immigration.”
Craig Regelbrugge, national co-chairman of Ag Coalition for Immigration Reform
Yes 40%
No 59%
Measure 98 — Oregon State Funding
for Dropout Prevention and College
Readiness Initiative
What it is: Requires the state to fund dropout-
prevention, career and technical education, and
college readiness programs in high schools.
Status: Passed †
Yes 65%
No 34%
Washington
Market value of ag products:
$10.1 billion
Number of farms: 36,000
Initiative 732 — Washington Carbon
Emission Tax and Sales Tax Reduction
What it is: Establishes a phased tax on carbon
emissions from the sale or use of certain fossil fuels.
Status: Failed †
President-elect Donald Trump gives his
victory speech during his election night
rally Wednesday in New York.
Yes 41.5%
John Locher/AP Photo
Groups assess president-elect’s impact on range of policy questions
Capital Press
W
ith the surprise elec-
tion of Donald Trump
to the U.S. presidency,
agriculture groups ex-
pect the reversal of environmental policies
enacted under the Obama administration.
“He’s very much in line with us on reg-
ulatory reform,” said Cody Lyon, director
of advocacy and political affairs for the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The Republican president-elect is ex-
pected to nullify the controversial “wa-
ters of the U.S.” rule, or WOTUS, which
groups such as AFBF and the National
Milk Producers Federation considered a
drastic expansion of federal jurisdiction
over private property.
“That’s basically sunk, so to speak,”
said Chris Galen, senior vice president of
communications for NMPF.
Apart from overturning WOTUS,
Trump is likely to take a less “confronta-
tional” approach to enforcing the Clean
Water Act, Clean Air Act and Endangered
Species Act, said Lyon.
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Northwest, California presidential results by county
(Results as of Nov. 9)
While Hillary Clinton carried more populous counties in the four-state region represented, most rural counties voted for Donald Trump for president.
For Trump (R)
For Clinton (D)
Idaho turnout: N/A
Trump (R)
Clinton (D)
Other
407,219
189,677
91,359
Seattle
Spokane
Washington
turnout: 48.2%
California
turnout: 51.2%
Clinton (D) 1,118,772
Trump (R) 750,719
Other
117,723
Clinton (D) 5,481,885
Trump (R) 2,965,704
Other
471,928
No 58.5%
Initiative 1433 — Washington Minimum
Wage Increase
What it is: Supports raising the state’s minimum
wage incrementally from $9.47 to $13.50 by 2020.
Status: Passed †
Yes 59.5%
No 40.5%
Idaho
Market value of ag products:
$8.8 billion
Number of farms: 24,400
H.J.R. 5 — Idaho Veto-Proof State
Legislative Oversight of Administrative
Rules and Regulations Amendment
What it is: Includes the legislative power to review,
approve and reject administrative rules in the state
constitution. Legislative oversight of administrative
rules would no longer be subject to veto by the
governor.
Status: Passed †
Yes 55.5%
No 44.5%
California
Market value of ag products:
$53.5 billion
Number of farms: 77,500
San Francisco
Oregon
turnout: 72.3%
Boise
Clinton (D) 911,359
Trump (R) 722,920
Other
189,732
Proposition 64 — California
Marijuana Legalization Initiative
Portland
Salem
Eugene
Los Angeles
What it is: Supports legalizing recreational
marijuana under state law and establishes certain
taxes for its cultivation and sale.
Status: Passed †
Yes 56%
San Diego
No 44%
NOTE: Market value as of 2014; number of farms as of 2015.
Sources: Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California secretaries of state; realclearpolitics.com
Alan Kenaga/Capital Press
† Results are preliminary
In Harney County, residents ready to move on
By ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
Harney County Judge Steven
Grasty watched as a news crew from a
Portland TV station cornered people in
Burns a couple weeks back, asking for
reaction to the confounding news that
the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupi-
ers had been acquitted.
He half expected his constituents
to complain about the jury because the
case had seemed so obvious to many
county residents, who endured a 41-
day occupation by armed men who
came from elsewhere and disrupted
their lives.
But he said county residents told
the TV news crew, “Look, we’re sick
of this stuff. We’re moving on.”
Grasty liked that response. The
verdict, he said, was not worth more
argument. “It is what it is,” he said.
“It’s a system that works whether
you like it or dislike it. Were they the
right charges? There’s lots of Monday
morning quarterbacking about that.”
But in the criminal justice system,
he said, “You don’t get a re-do.”
Grasty is moving on, too. He’d said
earlier this year that this would be his
last go-round as county judge, and he
didn’t stand for re-election after three
six-year terms. He leaves offi ce at the
end of the year, and Commissioner
Pete Runnels, who won enough votes
in the May primary to avoid a Novem-
ber runoff, will take over as judge.
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