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DailyAstorian.com // THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016
143RD YEAR, NO. 226
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McIntosh
poised
to avoid
runoff
AFTER THE BIG ONE
Attorney is just over
majority threshold in
Circuit Court judge race
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
George Vetter/For EO Media Group
Seaside High School senior Silvia Avila plays a victim during a countywide training exercise for the Community Emergency Re-
sponse Team program in December.
Police, fi re crews ‘may not be
able to respond’ after Cascadia
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
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See CASCADIA, Page 10A
See ELECTION, Page 10A
Port hopes
for disaster
relief funds
and grants
Emergency
preparedness
forum to stress
self-suffi ciency
mmediately after a Cascadia
Subduction Zone earthquake ,
emergency responders, includ-
ing Astoria’s, will likely be as par-
alyzed as everyone else.
“The city may not be able to
respond at all,” City Councilor
Drew Herzig said.
Residents and visitors unlucky
enough to be on the North Coast
when the “big one” hits should
plan to take care of themselves, he
said.
“We’re not trying to terrify
people, but we’re trying to be hon-
est with them about what they can
With a few hundred ballots left to be
counted, Dawn McIntosh is poised to avoid
a November runoff for a Clatsop County Cir-
cuit Court judgeship.
The attorney and former prosecutor
is maintaining just over 50 percent of the
vote, enough to win the
election . Deputy Dis-
trict Attorney David
Goldthorpe is in sec-
ond with 29 percent.
Municipal Court Judge
Ronald Woltjer is at 21
percent.
Holding the major-
ity is a surprise, McIn-
tosh said, since many
people told her it would
Dawn
be unlikely to break 50
McIntosh
percent in a race with
three candidates.
“I was pleased and pleasantly surprised,
especially with the quality of the candidates
in the race,” she said.
Outside money could
shape agency’s budget
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
New crust forms at spreading ridges between the Pacific Plate and the Juan de Fuca, Gorda, and
Explorer plates. As these three plates are pushed eastward, they are forced to subduct beneath
the North American Plate. Strain builds up where they have become stuck (locked) and will be
released one day in a great earthquake.
‘We’re not trying to terrify people, but we’re trying to be
honest with them about what they can expect from city
services. And the reality of our situation with a Cascadia
event is that there’s going to be very little service left.’
Drew Herzig
The Port of Astoria’s budget for the fi s-
cal year that starts in July will largely depend
on federal disaster relief and infrastructure
grants.
The Port is proposing a nearly $16 mil-
lion budget, including a nearly $5 mil-
lion runway repaving project at the Astoria
Regional Airport and $1.5 million in fi nanc-
ing for new stormwater treatment.
Jim Knight, the Port’s executive director,
said the budget was meant to help the Port
build on successes and address critical issues
such as developing stormwater treatment on
the central waterfront and at North Tongue
Point, cleaning up petroleum contamina-
tion, repairing storm damage and tackling
deferred maintenance.
See PORT, Page 10A
Astoria city councilor
Vote totals top 1.2 million, set new primary record
Sanders, Clinton
matchup likely
drove up totals
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — More than a
million Oregonians cast bal-
lots in Tuesday’s primary,
meeting expectations set early
this week by election offi cials
that a record number of voters
would participate.
However, the turnout per-
centage was lower than in
the presidential primary eight
years ago and it was unclear
what impact the state’s new
automatic voter registration
system had on the election
results. Oregon has several
hundred thousand more reg-
istered voters than eight years
ago .
“It’s an important symbolic
threshold, but also the state is
growing,” said Paul Gronke,
a political science profes-
sor and director of the Early
Voting Information Center at
Reed College. “It’s sort of like
those box offi ce records that
have been broken every year.
They’re kind of meaningless.”
According to unoffi cial
totals from the Secretary of
State’s Offi ce, 1,208,659 votes
were cast, for a turnout of 52.7
percent.
Secretary of State Jeanne
Atkins said it was only the sec-
ond time primary turnout has
topped the million vote mark,
and this year’s total broke the
previous record. The fi rst time
was 2008, when turnout was
driven by the Democratic con-
test between Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton. Turnout
was signifi cantly higher in that
primary, at 58.26 percent, and
1,170,526 votes were cast.
Jim Moore, a political sci-
ence professor and director of
the Tom McCall Center for
Policy Innovation at Pacifi c
University, said turnout was
much higher than in many
See RECORD, Page 5A
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, center,
arrives to speak at a get out the vote event at Transylvania
University in Lexington, Ky., Monday.