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THE DAILY ASTORIAN TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016
Businessman Alley announces
Republican bid for governor
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Lake Oswego
businessman Allen Alley
announced Monday he is again
making a bid for the Republi-
can nomination for governor
after a failed attempt in 2010.
Alley, 62, made the
announcement on Twitter and
in a message on his campaign
website one day before the
deadline to ¿le for the May
17 primary.
“I’m running for governor
because the political class in
Salem has let us down,” Alley
said in a statement. “They’ve
let the lobbyist foxes in the hen
house. I want to reinvent state
government so it serves us —
not the special interests.”
Speci¿cally, the Legisla-
ture has increased spending
without producing correspond-
ing results, Alley said. The
state yields a poor graduation
rate and high reliance on food
assistance, he said. Lawmak-
ers also have wasted money on
the failed health care exchange
website, Cover Oregon, and
the Interstate 5 bridge project,
known as the Columbia River
Crossing, he said.
He also criticized Gov. Kate
Brown’s lack of action to stop
a ballot measure to increase the
state tax on corporations, call-
ing it a “sales tax.”
‘I’m running for governor
because the political class
in Salem has let us down.’
By ZACH URNESS
Statesman Journal
Allen Alley
businessman
Before facing Brown, who
is seeking to complete the term
of former Gov. John Kitzhaber,
Alley will contend with Salem
oncologist Bud Pierce and at
least three other Republicans
in the May primary.
Jim Moore, political sci-
ence professor at Paci¿c 8ni-
versity, said Alley emerges
as an immediate front-run-
ner among the Republican
candidates.
“Pierce may have money,
but he’s essentially been invis-
ible to voters,” Moore said.
“The others are not running
serious campaigns based on
the amount of money they
have raised and their low pub-
lic pro¿les.”
Alley, a technology inves-
tor and former CEO of Pix-
elworks, is a familiar face in
Oregon politics. He served
as deputy chief of staff in the
administration of Gov. Ted
Kulongoski, a Democrat. He
sought the Republican nom-
ination for governor in 2010
but lost to former NBA player
Chris Dudley.
In 2008, Alley launched a
successful bid for the Repub-
lican nomination for state trea-
surer in the primary and lost to
Democrat Ben Westlund in the
general election. He also is a
former chairman of the Oregon
Republican Party.
“I would change the way we
administer every single agency
in the state and make transpar-
ent the entire budgeting pro-
cess, post it to the World Wide
Web and crowdsource and
make government more open
and accountable,” Alley said.
“Nobody has the experience to
even remotely do that.”
In the past, Alley has
largely self-funded his cam-
paigns. This time, he said he
intends to fundraise to help
build an invested coalition of
supporters.
Other Republicans who
had ¿led for the primary as of
Monday afternoon are Tigard
engineer Bob Niemeyer, Lyons
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Allen Alley
real estate broker Bruce Cuff
and ¿ve-time gubernatorial
candidate Bob Forthan, a state
worker.
Brown, the former sec-
retary of state, succeeded
Kitzhaber when the former
governor resigned in February
2015 amid accusations that he
and his ¿ancp, Cylvia Hayes,
used their public positions for
pro¿t. Her of¿ce indicates she
plans to ¿le her paperwork for
reelection on Tuesday’s ¿ling
deadline.
The November election will
determine who will serve out
the remainder of Kitzhaber’s
term, which expires in 2018.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
Activists end campaign for $15 minimum wage
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The chief spon-
sors of a ballot initiative to
raise Oregon’s minimum wage
to $15 in three years have
decided to end their campaign.
A survey of campaign part-
ners for Oregonians for 15
indicated a majority, includ-
ing unions and other organi-
zations, are against continu-
ing the petition, said initiative
chief sponsor Jamie Partridge.
The campaign partners
support a three-tier minimum
wage plan approved by the
Legislature last month that
hikes wages over a seven-year
period, he said.
The partners “considered
the bill the governor signed to
be a victory, though our steer-
ing committee still believes
the bill is too low, too slow,”
Partridge said. “But we don’t
have the organizational back-
ing or the voters.”
A recent poll commis-
sioned by Oregon Pub-
lic Broadcasting indicated
that just 28 percent of voters
would support the $15 initia-
tive, compared with 51 per-
cent before the Legislature
approved a more gradual min-
imum wage plan.
The legislative plan hikes
wages to $14.75 in the Port-
land area, $12.50 in rural and
coastal counties with strug-
gling economies and $13.50
in the rest of the state —
including Clatsop County —
by 2022.
The ¿rst pay bump starts
in July, from $9.25 to $9.75
statewide.
“We do take credit for the
advance, the step forward by
the Legislature,” Partridge
said. “One hundred thousand
workers will bene¿t from the
bill. Legislators were talking
about $10 an hour (in) a cou-
ple of years. We would be
nowhere near $15 without the
rallies, marches, committee
hearings and hard-nose lob-
bying and the 40,000 signa-
tures we gathered.”
President Barack Obama
commended the Legisla-
ture and Gov. Kate Brown
for approving the plan and
called on Congress to follow
suit. He said more than half of
states now have wages higher
Authorities discuss
how to get people to
obey warning signs
than the federal minimum
wage of $7.25.
Another group, the Raise
the Wage coalition, said last
week that it suspended sig-
nature gathering to place a
measure on the ballot to raise
wages to $13.50 statewide
during a three-year period.
That measure also would
have lifted a ban on cities
and counties setting higher
wages.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
PACIFIC CITY — How
do you get 19-year-olds to
pay attention to warning
signs?
That’s the question, in a
nutshell, that state parks of¿-
cials, lawmakers and com-
munity members face as
they attempt to reduce the
troubling number of deaths
at Cape Kiwanda State Nat-
ural Area.
Seven people have died
at the popular Oregon Coast
destination since 2009,
including ¿ve during the
past eight months. The aver-
age age of the victims is 19.
Most of the time, the vic-
tims hiked up a sand dune,
disregarded fencing and
signs, climbed onto a hazard-
ous sandstone bluff and fell
into the ocean.
“It’s a beautiful place,
it’s easy to reach, and there
are lots of people that climb
up there,” said Chris Havel,
a spokesman for the Ore-
gon Parks and Recreation
Department. “It’s one of
those places that draws
people in and, even when
they’re confronted by signs
and fences, they stop think-
ing about safety.”
In response to the most
recent incidents — two fatal
accidents in February —
state and county of¿cials,
along with state Sen. Arnie
Roblan, are taking part in a
town hall meeting March 17
in Paci¿c City to discuss how
to prevent future incidents.
There have been fencing
and signs warning people to
stay off the bluff since 1996.
The fencing was extended to
1,275 feet long following a
fatal accident in 2009.
“More fencing and signs
— along with devoting more
staff time through park rang-
ers — are the things we
know how to do, and that’s
where we’ll start at the meet-
ing,” Havel said. “But we
want to hear from the com-
munity and listen to other
suggestions.”
Astoria Rescue Mission
talent show set for Thursday
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria Rescue Mis-
sion’s annual talent show is
being held at 6:30 p.m. Thurs-
day at the Astoria Hilltop
Church of the Nazarene, 725
Niagara Ave.
There is no cost for
admission, and refreshments
will be served following the
program.
The Astoria Rescue Mis-
sion is celebrating its 30th
year of meeting the needs of
homeless individuals in the
community. Renovation of
a donated house for use as
a family mission starts this
spring, beginning with the
removal and replacement of
the roof.
For information, call
503-440-5414.
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WARRENTON — The Warrenton Public Works Depart-
ment is Àushing the water system during the next two weeks,
beginning today.
Customers may notice intermittent low pressure and dis-
colored water. If these issues persist past 3 p.m., contact the
Public Works Department at 503-861-0912
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