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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016
Unity slate divides state GOP convention
A confl ict over
party rules
and Oregon Small Business
Association.
When some party members
saw the ballot for at-large dele-
gates, they stopped proceedings
and argued that the ballot vio-
lated rules the party adopted in
October.
The rules called for the party
to vote for their top 10 choices
for at-large delegates. The 10
candidates who received the
most votes would win seats on
the delegation, while those who
ranked 11th to 20th in num-
ber of votes would win posts as
alternates.
Instead, Republican Party
Chairman Bill Currier instructed
party members to vote for 10
delegates and 10 alternates, and
he rejected the challenge to the
ballot.
A party member then
requested a vote on whether to
uphold or reject Currier’s deci-
sion. Currier held a standing
vote in which a majority rejected
his decision and clarifi ed that the
body would be voting only for
their top 10 choices. The top
10 choices would become del-
egates; the second top 10 vote
getters would serve as alternates.
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A slate of candi-
dates seeking positions as Ore-
gon delegates to the Republi-
can National Convention ran on
a platform that they would help
unify the party. Instead, the slate
and a confl ict over ballot rules
caused division in the party
during the statewide convention
in Salem Saturday.
The slate included 48 candi-
dates — mostly political insid-
ers — to fi ll every position in the
delegation. Among them were
state Reps. Bill Post, R-Keizer,
and Greg Barreto, R-Cove, Sen.
Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer, and
Ourania Yue, the wife of Repub-
lican National Committeeman
Solomon Yue Jr.
The slate came to the con-
vention with campaign materi-
als, set out on attendees’ chairs,
and endorsements from 13 orga-
nizations, including the Ted
Cruz and Donald Trump cam-
paigns, Oregon Right to Life
Failed to follow rules
Yamhill County Precinct
Committeeman Jim Bunn, a for-
mer U.S. representative for Ore-
gon, said the ballot failed to fol-
low the rules adopted in October
and also gave the grassroots
unity slate an advantage.
“The rules were very clear,
and they didn’t accommodate
a slate,” Bunn said. “I am not
going to judge people’s motives,
but the ballot would have given
an advantage to the slate.”
If the slate had just 51 per-
cent of the vote, it could have
selected both the 10 delegates
and all 10 alternates, he said.
“There are people who are
not running on slates, and with a
slate and that kind of ballot, you
can lock down all of the voices
on the delegation,” Bunn said.
“I don’t know if the slate has
51 percent of the body, but one
group shouldn’t get together and
control the whole delegation.”
Yue, the national committee-
man, said party leaders faced a
dilemma when they determined
the ballot instructions because
some candidates had fi led only
as alternates. A vote for the top
10 choices for delegate would
have effectively forced those
candidates out of the running for
alternate, because party mem-
bers would only be casting votes
for delegates.
“In a democratic society,
candidates have a right to stand
for election, and voters have the
right to vote for the candidates
they want,” Yue said. “If you
ask the body only to vote for
10 and the other 10 get elected
by default, I think that’s a prob-
lem, but I have respect for the
body’s decision, if that is what
they want.”
‘Something in common’
Yue said he disagrees the
ballot to vote for 10 delegates
and 10 alternates gave the unity
slate an advantage. The body
may vote for whichever mix of
candidates they choose, he said.
“The slate is a group of peo-
ple who decided to get together
because we have something in
common so let’s run together,”
Yue said.
The grassroots unity slate
was running on the premise that
they would unify the party. All
of the candidates had to sign a
pledge to refrain from chang-
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Consolidated convention
The event marked the fi rst
time in at least 30 years that the
Oregon Republican Party has
held a consolidated statewide
convention. During the last
presidential election in 2012, the
party held fi ve different conven-
tions, one for each of the state’s
congressional districts. Oregon
was the only state in the nation
that year without a centralized
caucus to select delegates to the
national convention.
The Capital Bureau is a col-
laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
Patricia Ann Lupton
Astoria
March 12, 1948 — May 4, 2016
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ASTORIA
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represent the state at the national
convention in Cleveland in July.
Eighteen of the delegates are
pledged to Trump; fi ve each are
pledged to Cruz and Ohio Gov.
John Kasich.
Out of the 28, three are cho-
sen from each of Oregon’s fi ve
congressional districts. Another
10 are elected to fi ll at-large posi-
tions, and three so-called “auto-
matic delegates” serve by virtue
of their positions as state chair-
man, national committeeman
and national committeewoman.
OBITUARY
FRIDAY
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 70°/58°
Normal high/low ........................... 63°/49°
Record high ............................ 88° in 1898
Record low ............................. 40° in 1988
First
THURSDAY
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ing the “main elements of the
Republican Party Platform.”
That includes the party’s princi-
ples of pro-life, traditional mar-
riage, the right to bear arms, free
enterprise, smaller government
and lower taxes.
Yue said the slate’s dual
endorsements by the Cruz and
Trump campaigns were unique.
Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas,
suspended his campaign after
losing the Indiana primary in
May. Trump, a billionaire busi-
nessman, is the party’s presump-
tive nominee.
“Oregon has the only grass-
roots slate endorsed by the
Trump and Cruz campaign,”
Yue said. “In other states, they
are still fi ghting each other. In
Oregon, we are already working
together.”
In the end, nine of the 10
at-large delegates elected were
from the unity slate.
More than 800 people
attended Saturday’s convention.
Out of those, 654 were precinct
committeepersons who were
responsible for voting for the
party’s delegates and alternates.
The party was scheduled to
select a total of 28 delegates to
Patricia Ann Lupton, 68, passed
children, Robert and Noelle. In addi-
away unexpectedly on May 4 at her
tion to her daughter, grandchildren,
home in Astoria. Patti lived a full life,
and beloved doggies, Patti leaves
behind her partner of 15 years, David.
during which she was a daughter, a
Patti is remembered as a woman
mother, a grandmother, a partner, a
of high intelligence, humor and
wife and a devoted friend.
beauty. She was hysterically funny
Patti grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii,
and incredible fun to be around. For
the daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Allyn
those reasons and so many others, we
Cole Jr., who preceded her in death.
will miss Patti each and every day.
Later in her life, Patti found and
Patti is survived by many grate-
established a loving relationship with Patricia Lupton
ful family and friends who knew the
her biological mother, Dixie, who
treasure of her unconditional love,
passed away several years ago. She
and the strength of her unwavering
was also blessed with two half-sisters
support. Please help us celebrate Pat-
in the early 1990s, after spending most
ti’s life by donating in her name to
of her life an only child. Jeanie, who
Sisters of the Road (http://sistersoft-
resides in California, and Teri, who
heroad.org) or the Oregon Humane
also passed in 2011.
Society.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Patti
A celebration of life will be held in
lived in Portland, Oregon, after attend-
mid to late June at the Astoria Moose
ing the University of Portland. By the
Lodge.
mid-1990s, she had made her home in
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary in
Astoria, Oregon.
Astoria was in charge of the arrange-
Patti was a loving and supportive
mother to her daughter, Catherine, and a strong ments. An online guest book may be signed at
and loving presence in the lives of her grand- www.hughes-ransom.com
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DEATHS
June 4, 2106
MYERS, Annabel Mar-
garet, 90, of Astoria, died in
Astoria. Ocean View Funeral
& Cremation Service of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
OLMSCHEID, Wayne Jay,
88, of Astoria, died in Astoria.
Ocean View Funeral & Cre-
mation Service of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Youngs River Lewis & Clark
Water District Board, 6 p.m.,
34583 U.S. Highway 101 Busi-
ness.
Knappa School District, 6
p.m., budget committee, 6:30
p.m., board meeting, Knappa
High School library, 41535 Old
U.S. Highway 30.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall 1095 Duane St.
TUESDAY
Seaside Community Center
Commission, 10 a.m., 1225
Avenue A.
Port of Astoria, 10:30 a.m.,
workshop, noon, budget
committee, old Port offi ces, 422
Gateway Ave.
Seaside Library Board, 4:30
p.m., City Hall, 1131 Broadway.
Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer
District Board, 6 p.m., 34583
U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Cannon Beach City Council,
7 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower
St.
CLARIFICATION
Scope of crimes — The series of crimes that Vincent David-
son-Gilbert was involved in nearly a decade ago included bur-
glary and assault. The scope of his past crimes was not included
in a story on Davidson-Gilbert’s struggle with drugs and crime
on p age 1A May 30.
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