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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2016
Independent Party seeks partners for third-party coalition
Looking for
alternative for
president
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
The Independent Party of
Oregon and the Independence
Party of Minnesota have joined
forces to organize a national
coalition to nominate a third-
party candidate for president.
The parties plan to hold
a national conference in late
summer to select their nomi-
nee, said Sal Peralta, secretary
of the Independent Party.
A decision by the Oregon
secretary of state to require
the new party to participate in
the presidential primary was
the impetus for forming the
national coalition, Peralta said.
“I think there are a lot of
folks out there who are frus-
trated with the candidates the
two major parties have pro-
duced this year, and a lot of vot-
ers are frustrated and don’t feel
they’re represented,” Peralta
said. “It should be no surprise
to anyone that activists, donors
and a lot of people would like
to see a change. I think this
really is the beginning of the
third party movement.”
The two independent par-
ties have identiied about 14
other centrist parties around
the nation they plan to invite to
the conference, which will be
similar to the Republican and
Democratic conventions. The
conference is likely to take
place in late August after the
Republican National Conven-
tion and before the deadline
for iling a candidate in Ore-
gon, party leaders said. The
deadline is Aug. 30.
“The Democratic and
Republican parties are poised
to nominate candidates with
the highest negative poll rat-
ings in history,” said Rob
Harris, a Washington County
attorney who was central to the
‘It should be no surprise to anyone that
activists, donors and a lot of people would
like to see a change. I think this really is
the beginning of the third party movement.’
Sal Peralta
secretary, Independent Party of Oregon
talks between the two parties.
“With the two parties nomi-
nating historically unpopular
candidates, this is a conversa-
tion that is long overdue. We
believe voters are ready for a
change.”
Phil Fuehrer, chairman
of the Independence Party
of Minnesota, said indepen-
dents have attempted to form
national third-party coalitions
in the past. His party joined a
coalition in 1996 to nominate
third party presidential candi-
date Ross Perot, who created
the Reform Party. His party cut
ties with the Reform Party in
early 2000 when the Reform
Party nominated Pat Buchanan
as its presidential nominee
because the party disagreed
with the candidate’s social
conservative agenda, Fuehrer
said. Another attempt to form
a national third-party coalition
in 2004 never panned out, he
said.
This presidential elec-
tion has shown that voters are
interested in nontraditional
candidates such as U.S. Sen.
Bernie Sanders and business-
man Donald Trump, Fuehrer
said.
“I realized now is the
time to move forward with a
national third-party coalition
and give it another try,” he
said.
In addition to nominating
a third party presidential can-
didate, the two parties plan to
use the coalition to share best
practices and improve ballot
access for third parties, Per-
alta said.
The Independent Party of
Oregon had initially tried to opt
out of participating in the pres-
idential primary. But earlier
this spring, the Oregon Secre-
tary of State’s Ofice informed
the party that because of its
size, it is required to offer a
ballot line for the presidential
primary.
The secretary of state rec-
ognized the party as a major
political party in 2015 because
its membership reached a
threshold of 5 percent of vot-
ers registered in the state.
The party has about 104,000
members.
The secretary of state has
indicated the party is prohib-
ited from listing primary can-
didates from other political
parties — such as Sanders —
who have cross party appeal.
Without its own primary can-
didates, the party was forced to
offer members only a write-in
option.
Oregon law also bars the
party from nominating a gen-
eral election candidate who
lost in the primary because
of the state’s so-called “sore
loser” law, meaning Sanders
could not be the party’s presi-
dential nominee if he loses the
Democratic primary to former
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
Primary opponents for secretary Army Corps rejects
of state race go on the offensive new coal terminal
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The Ore-
gon secretary of state’s race
heated up in the last week,
as three seasoned Democrats
increasingly went on the attack
against each other.
Oregon Labor Commis-
sioner Brad Avakian; state
Sen. Richard Devlin, D-Tuala-
tin; and state Rep. Val Hoyle,
D-Eugene, are vying for the
Democratic nomination in the
May 17 primary election.
Two Republicans are run-
ning in the primary, former
state Rep. Dennis Richard-
son from Central Point and
Lane County Commissioner
Sid Leiken from Springield.
The Republican primary has
unfolded quietly, without the
types of attacks Democrats
recently unleashed on each
other.
The winner of the Dem-
ocratic primary has a good
chance at becoming the next
secretary of state. Oregon’s
last Republican secretary of
state was Norma Paulus who
served from 1977 to 1985,
although Republicans had held
that ofice with only a couple
exceptions since statehood,
according to the Secretary of
State’s Ofice.
This year’s Democratic and
Republican primary winners
will face off in the November
general election.
Tactics shift
Until this week, Hoyle and
Devlin appeared to share the
view that Democrats should
vote for anyone but Avakian.
They critiqued Avakian’s
promises to create renewable
energy and civics education
programs, which are outside
the secretary of state’s role of
chief elections oficer, auditor
and archivist.
Hoyle and Devlin’s appar-
ent friendliness ended this
week, when Devlin sharply
critiqued Hoyle for accepting
a $250,000 donation in April
from billionaire gun control
advocate Michael Bloomberg.
A
spokesman
for
Bloomberg told Willamette
Week the former New York
City mayor appreciated
Hoyle’s role in getting a bill
passed in 2015 to expand
background checks to private
irearm transfers. Hoyle’s
second largest reported con-
tribution was $100,000 from
EMILY’s List, which sup-
ports pro-abortion rights
Democratic women.
Hoyle has
raised the most
Donors have beneited
Hoyle has raised the most
money in the Democratic pri-
mary with nearly $855,000
since 2015, while Avakian
has raised $626,000 in that
time frame, according to an
analysis of state campaign
inance reports. Devlin has
raised nearly $295,000 since
2015.
Hoyle, who will be out of
ofice in 2017 unless she is
elected secretary of state, is
not the only Democrat in the
race to raise campaign dona-
tions from people or groups
impacted by their oficial
actions.
Avakian, whose current
term as labor commissioner
extends through 2018, counts
food workers and construc-
tion unions among his top
supporters.
The International Union
of Operating Engineers Local
701 gave Avakian’s cam-
paign $35,000 in donations
since 2015, according to an
analysis of state campaign
inance data.
The union iled two
requests in 2015 for Ava-
kian to change classiica-
tions or expand the type of
jobs equipment operators
could do on public construc-
tion projects that pay prevail-
ing wage.
As of Monday, state cam-
paign inance records showed
Avakian received a $5,000
contribution from the union
in May 2015, ahead of his
July 2015 decision that
resulted in ield surveyors
getting a large bump in pay
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Teachers have
a big job and
a big impact
on many government proj-
ects. The remainder of the
union’s contributions came in
February. Avakian’s approv-
als of the union’s requests
took effect in January.
“Brad Avakian has run the
Bureau of Labor and Indus-
tries with a record of integ-
rity and a record of support-
ing workers and employers
who are playing by the
rules,” said Brad Pyle, Ava-
kian’s campaign manager.
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Pyle said donors to Devlin’s
campaign beneited from bills
Devlin helped to pass. “Rich-
ard Devlin’s been using his
position as the co-chair of
Ways and Means to exploit
funds from the lobbyist com-
munity to support his run for
secretary of state,” Pyle said.
Devlin, who will continue
to serve in the state Senate if
he is not elected secretary of
state, received his largest con-
tributions from groups that
represent residential and long-
term care facilities and nurses.
Those groups beneited from a
bill Devlin sponsored earlier
this year, which gave nursing
home owners additional time
to qualify for a state incentive
to shut down under-utilized
homes.
The Oregon Health Care
Association, Devlin’s larg-
est contributor at a total of
$41,000, gave money to his
campaign before and after
the 2016 session, accord-
ing to state data. The group
represents long-term care
companies.
Emily Brixey, Devlin’s
campaign manager, said
Devlin has longstanding
relationships with both the
Oregon Nurses Association
and Oregon Health Care
Association. “I don’t’ nec-
essarily think any of the
contributions in this cam-
paign are correlated with
any one speciic bill, as
they are in the Val Hoyle
campaign,” Brixey said.
Richardson has
fundraising edge
In the Republican pri-
mary, Richardson has
raised nearly $409,000 and
Leiken has raised $178,000,
according to state data.
Richardson’s largest donor
is timber executive Andrew
Miller with a total of nearly
$19,000.
Leiken’s largest con-
tributors are Bud Pierce,
the Salem doctor running
for governor, who gave
Leiken $24,000, and the
timber company Giustina
Resources, which has
given a total of $15,000 to
his campaign.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — The U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers has
denied a permit to a $700 mil-
lion project to build the nation’s
largest coal-export terminal in
northwest Washington state,
handing a striking victory to the
Lummi tribe which argued the
project would violate its trea-
ty-protected ishing rights.
The decision Monday
ends the federal environmen-
tal review of a deep-water port
that would have handled up
to 54 million metric tons of
dry bulk commodities, mostly
coal, at Cherry Point. The ven-
ture between SSA Marine and
Cloud Peak Energy proposed
receiving coal by train from
Montana and Wyoming for
export to Asia.
Col. John Buck, commander
of the corps’ Seattle district,
said the Gateway Paciic Ter-
minal project can’t be permitted
because the impacts from the
trestle and three-vessel wharf
would interfere with the tribe’s
treaty rights to ish in its tradi-
tional areas.
“The corps may not permit
a project that abrogates treaty
rights,” Buck said.
The Lummi Nation said the
Corps honored its treaty with
the U.S. and recognized that the
project would hurt the tribe’s
ishing rights.
“It’s great news for the
Lummi, a great win for treaty
rights and Indian country,”
said Tim Ballew, chairman of
the tribe with more than 5,000
members and one of the larg-
est tribal ishing leets in the
country. “The record estab-
lished, and everybody knew,
this project would have neg-
ative impacts to treaty ishing
rights.”
Like many tribes, the
Lummi signed a treaty with the
U.S. in 1855 in which it ceded
its land but reserved the right
to hunt and ish in “usual and
accustomed” areas.
Project developers said
Monday that they are consider-
ing all alternatives.
“This is an inconceivable
decision,” Bob Watters, pres-
ident of Paciic International
Terminal, LLC, said in a state-
ment. “Looking at the set of
facts in the administrative sum-
mary, it’s quite obvious this is
a political decision and not fact
based.”
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