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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2015 Warrenton: RepuElican candidates haven’t won a statewide oI¿ce since 2002 Continued from Page 1A Pierce, a Salem oncologist ZKo annoXnceG Kis ¿rst rXn Ior oI¿ce 7KXrsGa\, GescriEeG 2r- egon¶s ailment as its one-Sart\, 'emocratic rXle 1o 5eSXEli- can Kas Zon a stateZiGe oI¿ce since , anG 9ictor $ti\eK leIt oI¿ce as tKe last 5eSXEli- can governor in 1987. ³,I \oX¶re a leaGer in \oXr SroIession or \oXr commXnit\ « anG \oX¶re 5eSXElican, in a reSresentative Gemocrac\, it¶s time to steS IorZarG,´ Pierce said. 2regon Kas a 9 Eillion 1-17 EXdget. Pierce said 17 Sercent oI tKe EXdget is ad- ministration, compared to 1.5 percent at Kis emplo\er, +ema- tolog\ 2ncolog\ oI Salem. 5e- ducing administration, he said, Zill provide another 1 Eillion in revenue and ta[ savings. 2r- egon has more than 250 com- missions, he added, and needs to eliminate man\ oI them. ³0one\¶s Eeing stolen. ,t needs to end. We need to get rid oI a lot oI these useless pro- grams,´ he said. Pierce said 2regon needs government to help Eusinesses groZ and pa\ great Zages cre- ate an educational s\stem that helps teachers and provides technical training e[pand in- Irastructure and appropriatel\ use natural resources. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Oregon gubernatorial candidates William “Bud” Pierce, left, and Bob Niemeyer visited the North Coast Conservative Picnic Saturday at the Lighthouse Christian Church in Warrenton. Convention of States 1ieme\er, a mechanical engineer Irom 7ualatin, ¿rst ran Ior oI¿ce in the 201 5e- puElican primar\ against -ason Yates and Delinda Morgan to see Zho Zould Iace 8.S. 5ep. Su]anne %onamici, D-2re. 1ieme\er tooN 17 percent oI the vote in the primar\. Yates lost to Bonamici in the general election. ³&ongress is hopeless,´ 1ieme\er said oI his run Ior the +ouse. ³2ne person out oI 535 isn’t going to accomplish an\thing.´ $s governor, 1ieme\er said he hopes to attend a Con- vention oI States, an eIIort to gather support Irom at least 3 states under $rticle 9 oI the 8.S. Constitution to maNe amendments without needing the approval oI Congress. 1ieme\er said government needs to stop Eull\ing and get out oI the wa\ oI Eusiness, adding he would give a Iull pardon to Sweet CaNes E\ Me- lissa, a *resham EaNer\ ¿ned Ior reIusing to EaNe a caNe Ior a same-se[ wedding Eased on the owner’s religious EelieIs. Local issues .it]haEer’s plan to phase gillnet ¿shing oII the main stem oI the ColumEia 5iver all Eut handed Clatsop Count\ last 1ovemEer to his 5epuElican challenger, Dennis Richardson. Pierce said 2regon needs to let commercial, recreational and native ¿shing staNehold- ers create an eTuitaEle wa\ to share ¿sh, with the govern- ment as a mediator. Pierce added he needs to re- search the issue more. 1ieme\- er said he doesn’t Nnow much aEout the current situation, adding he was totall\ against the previous plans to move gill- netting into select areas, calling them unenIorceaEle. ³,’m personall\ against gillnetting in the river,´ 1ieme\er said, adding com- mercial ¿shermen should go out in the ocean. 2n another Eig issue, the proposed liTue¿ed natural gas terminal in Warrenton, Pierce said the issue should have Eeen decided \ears ago. Countries that are more successIul than the 8nited States with inIrastructure proM- ects put time limits on deci- sion-maNing, Pierce said, and the LNG terminal proposals should have Eeen decided within two to three \ears. ³,I the citi]ens don’t want it, and the locals don’t want it, it doesn’t happen,´ he said. ³But, again, at least \ou can tell people that µthe proMect can’t happen go do it some- where else,’ so \ou don’t get this digging in mentalit\.´ Nieme\er said the terminal should have Eeen done E\ now, adding that natural gas is used Ior a lot more than people thinN. Nieme\er so Iar has no account set up on the state’s weEsite that tracNs campaign contriEutions. Bud Pierce Ior a Better 2regon, meanwhile, has gathered 318,000, including 253,000 oI his own mone\. Bonamici: ‘We want to encourage people to come here’ Continued from Page 1A during the town hall at the Warrenton Communit\ Cen- ter, which Eoasted aEout 25 attendees and Eegan with Bonamici outlining her ongo- ing proMects in the 8.S. +ouse oI Representatives. She said that her 7suna- mi Warning, Education, and Research Act oI 2015 was among the Iirst Eills that passed the 8.S. +ouse during this session. 7he Eill, now in the 8.S. Senate, would help Iinance the National 2cean- ic and Atmospheric Admin- istration’s tsunami research and warning activities. But the LNG proMect’s implications Ior the natural disaster-prone region contin- ued to hang in the air. “I Nnow this is a Eig con- cern, and I’ve Eeen e[press- ing concerns aEout it Irom the time I was in the state Legislature,´ said Bonami- ci, who represented District 17 in the 2regon Senate, serving parts oI Washington and Multnomah counties. +er predecessor, David Wu, was outspoNen on LNG and sought to increase state con- trol over LNG proMects. Bonamici said constitu- ents should continue to talN to their elected oIIicials aEout the 2regon LNG proM- ect. PuElic comments, she said, are “maNing a diIIer- ence.´ 7hough the )ederal En- erg\ Regulator\ Commis- sion’s draIt environmental review oI the proposed LNG proMect said the environmen- tal risNs could Ee reduced to less-than-signiIicant levels, Bonamici said that local and state laws must still Ee oEserved as the proMect un- Iolds. “When there are local and ‘I know this is a big concern, and I’ve been expressing concerns about it from the time I was in the state Legislature.’ — Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore. She represented District 17 in the Oregon Senate, serving parts of Washington and Multnomah counties state rules, a compan\ can’t Must sa\, µWe’re choosing not to Iollow them.’ 7hat’s un- acceptaEle. 7here are local and state rules Ior a reason,´ she said, adding later “We will Ee monitoring the whole process, and, iI there’s a compan\ that’s not compl\- ing with local and state laws, we will speaN up.´ The economic question Bonamici ² provoNing a Iew low groans Irom the audience ² reminded them that some oI her constitu- ents support 2regon LNG Eecause the energ\ compan\ claims the proMect will pro- vide thousands oI temporar\ construction MoEs and more than 100 permanent MoEs. She recommended that, when LNG opponents de- Eate whether LNG is suit- aEle Ior the area, the\ should also discuss what else can Ee Photos by Erick Bengel/The Daily Astorian Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., speaks before a modest crowd at the Warrenton Community Center during her town hall meeting Sunday. The congresswoman discussed the importance of tsunami preparedness and other subjects close to her heart. done to Eoost the local econ- om\. Nanc\ +olmes oI Seaside said that the area needs more MoEs, particularl\ in trans- portation inIrastructure, and more worNIorce housing. Bonamici responded “7here are a lot oI wa\s that we can Euild our econ- om\ through small Eusiness support, through renewaEle energ\, through inIrastruc- ture, all oI those,´ she said. “7here’s Must a lot that we can Ee doing that is posi- tive.´ 7he tourism industr\ is vital to the North Coast econom\, she said. +owev- er, the New YorNer article puElished in -ul\ aEout the Cascadia earthTuaNe and tsunami has made it more diIIicult to promote the area. “I tell \a, a lot oI m\ constituents are terriIied Eecause the\ read that New YorNer article,´ she said. Cities on the coast should worN to inIorm potential vis- itors, as well as residents, aEout tsunami preparedness and maNe sure the\ Nnow what to do during a natural disaster, she said. “We want to encourage people to come here,´ she said. “7he coast is ama]ing and EeautiIul.´ U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., begins her town hall meeting Sunday in Warrenton. After discussing her ongo- ing projects in the U.S. House of Representative, she took questions from the audience. Stanley: +e served two terms on a cit\ council in Indiana Continued from Page 1A Stanle\ then touched on larger topics. +e Iears that, iI a RepuElican president is elected in 201, aging Su- preme Court -ustices Stephen Bre\er and Ruth Bader Gins- Eurg will Ee replaced E\ con- servative Mustices. $nd he’s worried aEout the pressure that corporate mone\ e[erts on the $merican political s\s- tem. ³,t’s prett\ Irustrating gen- erall\ in politics,´ he said, chucNling. ³,t’s prett\ Irustrat- ing Eeing a liEeral.´ Business and politics Stanle\ was raised in +un- tington, N.Y., a town on Long ,sland aEout 50 miles awa\ Irom New YorN Cit\. $ high school dropout, Stanle\ Moined the 8.S. $ir )orce at age 18 and worNed as an airEorne radio operator while the Korean War was winding down. +e then spent aEout 20 \ears as an air traI¿c controller, moving around the Midwest Ior his MoE. While in his 20s, Stanle\ served two terms on the Cit\ Council in Moorseville, Ind., a tin\ EurE outside Indianapolis. +e liNes to tell the stor\ oI when he got into a ¿ght with an unhapp\ constituent whose proposed Eusiness Stanle\ helped to NiEosh. 7he would-Ee Eusiness own- er wanted to set up a Eusiness Ior punching sheet metal in his garage, which happened to Ee in the middle oI town. Stanle\ was concerned aEout parNing proE- lems and had received noise complaints Irom neighEors, so Stanle\ turned him down. $Iter the vote, the councilor went out into the parNing lot, and that gu\ was waiting Ior him. ³I thinN I whupped him,´ Stanle\ said, smiling ² though he admitted that his opponent ma\ well have Eeen in his 50s. ‘That’s how we learn’ Stanle\ and his wiIe moved into their Svensen home shortl\ EeIore getting married there in 2003, the \ear EeIore the ¿rst incursion oI an LNG compan\ into the North Coast. “And it’s Eeen going on all this time ² can \ou imagine"´ +e used to write man\ letters to the editor and has Eeen puE- lished in 7he Dail\ Astorian, Eut he onl\ does it aEout three times a \ear now. “I’ve got a computer Iull oI letters, Eut a lot oI times, I Must don’t ¿nish them,´ he said. “And then I’ll go EacN and read ’em, and sa\, µBo\ that was a good letter. I should have sent it.’´ Stanle\ wasn’t alwa\s so outspoNen. +e Iollowed the unwritten rule that one doesn’t discuss politics or religion in puElic. “So I didn’t,´ he said. “(ven m\ Nids didn’t Nnow how political I was, Eecause I wouldn’t even talN aEout it with them.´ 7hen it dawned on him “Ya Nnow, that’s what those lous- es want \ou to do. 7he\ want \ou not to talN aEout it, Eecause \ou’re liaEle to learn something \ou didn’t Nnow.´ Stanle\’s own mind has Eeen changed on hot-Eutton issues through the art oI conversation. )or \ears, he went EacN and Iorth on the death penalt\ until he came around to adamantl\ opposing it. “I reall\ Ieel that it’s a mis- taNe to not discuss politics,´ he said. “7hat’s how we learn E\ talNing to diIIerent people.´ “Now \ou can’t shut him up,´ Christine said with a laugh. — Erick Bengel