OCTOBER 15, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
POST: ‘…it appears that the best action I can take for my
district and my family is to resign …’ Continued from page A1
Session,” Post said in a press release .
Post has been a resident of Keizer
since 1994 and has served as state rep-
resentative for Keizer, St. Paul and
Newberg since 2014. While Post had
announced in early September that he
would not be seeking re-election, his cur-
rent term wasn’t set to officially expire
until January 2023.
Post’s resignation comes after he
wrote on Facebook on Sept. 27 that he
and his wife had sold their house in
Keizer and moved to Nevada with 15
months remaining in his current term in
office.
“I have to live in my district 183 days
a year which I have well over that in 2021
and the Legislature is virtual the rest of
the year. I’m still looking at my options
for 2022,” Post wrote on Facebook at the
time.
Legislative Counsel Dexter Johnson
said in an email Friday that there is no
183-day requirement and pointed to a
provision in the Oregon Constitution
that states that a person may not be a
senator or representative if the person
“is not an inhabitant of the district”
they’ve been chosen to represent at all
times.
In an interview with the Keizertimes
Monday, Post said he can’t exactly remem-
ber where he got the 183-day require-
ment from and did not know about the
provision in the Oregon Constitution at
the time of his announcement.
Post said that it was his intent “to be
open with my constituents about my
move out of state and the steps I’d be
taking to continue to fulfill my duties.”
When asked if his decision to move
to Nevada would have been different
had he known the residency laws, Post
said, “I don't know because I just had all
intentions and purposes to do what I did
based on the information that I had. So I
don't know, that would just be too much
speculation.”
Republican Precinct Committee
Persons of District 25 will now be tasked
with nominating between three to five
Republican candidates to fill Post’s
position for the next 15 months.
The board of commissioners in
Yamhill and Marion counties, both par-
tially represented by state District 25,
will then interview the candidates and
vote to appoint Post’s replacement. A
replacement would need to be selected
within 30 days of the vacancy.
News tip? Contact reporter Joey
Cappelletti at editor@keizertimes.
com or 616-610-3093.
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obituary
Donna R. O’Neill
March 20, 1938 – Sept. 22, 2021
Donna R. O’Neill was born on March
20, 1938 in Sioux City, Iowa, to LeRoy
and Merle Gifford, the second of four
children, having lost one brother at
birth. She breathed her last breath on
this earth on Sept. 22, 2021 — her first
breath of eternity with Christ.
When she was young her family
moved to the Portland area. She went
to Oregon City High School, and was
a Rose Festival Princess. She met a
handsome 21-year-old sailor, William
(Bill) E. O’Neill while he was home on
leave, through a mutual friend. They
married soon after, on Dec. 7, 1956, and
moved to Oahu, Hawaii, where Bill was
stationed and they lived for three years
until Bill’s discharge. Before moving
back to Oregon they welcomed their
first son, Mark in 1959. They finally
located in Salem, where Bill began work
for the Oregon State Police. In 1962
they had Mike, and moved to Keizer.
Besides being a full time mom, Donna
began working in administrative roles
until landing in the Salem-Keizer
School District.
After retiring from there, she went
back to school to become a travel
DONNA R. O’NEILL
agent, eventually having her own travel
business until her cancer diagnosis in
2018. Donna and Bill travelled around
the globe, covering the Caribbean,
Canada, the islands of the Pacific, New
Zealand, Australia, China, almost every
country in Europe and some Eastern
European countries.
While in town she enjoyed spending
time with her kids and grandkids,
friends, shopping, attending MOAA
meetings and events, Bill’s Lodge
functions, and studying the family
genealogy.
Donna is survived by her husband,
Bill, her sons Mark, Mike (Shelly),
five grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren, her sister and brother.
A Celebration of Life service will be
held on Oct. 23, 10 a.m. at Salem First
Church of the Nazarene, 1550 Market St.
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