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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2016
Oregon Democrats prepare Consult a
for the state convention
PROFESSIONAL
Sanders makes
push for party
rules changes
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — As U.S. Sen.
Bernie Sanders called for
reforms to the Democratic
Party, Oregon was poised to
select the last of its delegates
Saturday to cast votes at the
national convention in Phila-
delphia in July.
In a speech streamed live,
the Vermont senator called on
Democrats to recruit new lead-
ership for the party, eliminate
superdelegates and open up
primaries to independents.
“We need an electoral pro-
cess that is worthy of the Dem-
ocratic Party,” Sanders said.
Sanders made the com-
ments before he was scheduled
to meet with former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton Tues-
day night to discuss his plans
for his waning campaign. Clin-
ton has captured the needed
delegates to become the par-
ty’s presumptive nominee for
president, and some mem-
bers of the party have called
on Sanders to concede and
endorse his opponent, accord-
ing to multiple media reports.
Clinton won a majority
of pledged delegates awarded
through primaries and caucuses,
took the majority of states, and
claimed the popular vote. Super-
delegates are party leaders and
elected oficials who partici-
pate in the Democratic National
Convention largely by virtue
of their position. Their choices
don’t have to relect the popular
vote in their states.
Nationwide, superdelegates
overwhelmingly pledged their
support to Clinton, and closed
primaries in Oregon and other
states edged out independents
from helping to choose both
the Democratic and Republi-
can nominees.
“The idea that we had, in
this case, 400 superdelegates
pledged to a candidate some
eight months or more before
the irst ballot was cast is to
my mind absurd, and we need
to also make sure that super-
delegates do not live in a
world of their own but relect
the views of the people in their
own state,” Sanders said in his
speech Tuesday.
Despite those perceived
obstacles, Sanders won the
Oregon primary in May with
54 percent of the vote. Six-
ty-one of the state’s delegates
are pledged to candidates
according to the popular vote,
but the state’s 13 superdele-
gates may select whichever
candidate they want.
Seven out of the 13 have
pledged their support to Clin-
ton, three have pledged to
Sanders, and three have not
revealed their choice.
Superdelegates
backing
Clinton include Gov. Kate
Brown, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader,
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer,
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici,
Attorney General Ellen Rosen-
blum and party irst vice-chair-
woman Karen Packer.
“I understand that aspects
of the superdelegate system
have become controversial,”
Gov. Brown said in a statement
Tuesday. “As long as it is the
system that we have in place, I
think the most important thing
a superdelegate can do within
this system is be completely
transparent about who they are
supporting and why. I chose to
make my endorsement public
back in March for that reason.”
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio,
party chairman Frank Dixon
and national committeewoman
Laura Calvo have yet to pledge
their support, said Brad Mar-
tin, executive director of the
Democratic Party of Oregon.
The three did not immediately
return messages from the Pam-
plin Media/EO Media Capital
Bureau seeking comment.
The state’s ive congres-
sional districts chose 41 of the
state’s delegates June 4. The
party will select its 20 at-large
delegates at 1 p.m. Saturday at
the statewide convention at the
Paciic Northwest Carpenters
Institute in Portland.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
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Oregon jobless rate unchanged at 4.5 percent in May
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Oregon’s
unemployment rate has stayed
the same for three consecutive
months.
The state Employment
Department said Tuesday the
rate for May remained at 4.5
percent, slightly lower than the
U.S. jobless rate of 4.7 percent.
At this time last year, Oregon’s
unemployment rate was nearly
6 percent.
Oregon’s payroll report
increased by 1,200 jobs in
May, a modest gain compared
with the average monthly
increase of more than 5,000
jobs during the past year.
Retail trade was a strong
performer in May while the
manufacturing sector cut 400
jobs.
Portland mulls foreclosures
for irst time in 50 years
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — City ofi-
cials in booming Portland have
developed a plan to foreclose on
so-called “zombie homes” for the
irst time in 50 years as the city
grapples with a swelling popula-
tion and skyrocketing home costs
that threaten to lock new home-
owners out of the market.
The City Council is sched-
uled to vote Wednesday on
whether to foreclose on ive
of the city’s worst abandoned
properties, the irst part of a
long-term plan to free up hous-
ing in an overheated market
while clearing out squatters
who have plagued develop-
ing neighborhoods outside the
city’s hip core for years.
Council members will
also vote on whether to alter
city code so Portland can sell
a foreclosed property for its
market value and not just for
what’s owed in liens.
The idea of cities buying up
blighted properties isn’t new, and
Portland looked to metropolises
like Baltimore or Detroit while
devising its plan. But unlike those
cities, which were hit hard by
the recession, Portland is burst-
ing with newcomers and hous-
ing demand has far outstripped
supply. Portland home prices are
going up 11 percent year over
year and 1,000 new people move
to the city every month, Mayor
Charlie Hales said.
“It’s fundamentally crazy
that we have houses sitting
empty in a market where a
‘For Sale’ or a ‘For Rent’ sign
would cure that by tomorrow
morning,” Hale said. “We’ve
got to light up every single one
of these homes with people
living in them.”
Portland hasn’t foreclosed
on anyone since 1965, when a
single mother sued after ofi-
cials took her home over a $28
sidewalk nuisance fee. That
episode chastened the city,
which reversed course so dra-
matically that Hale wasn’t
even aware it had a foreclosure
manager on its staff.
In the ive decades since,
Portland has essentially oper-
ated as a collections agency,
putting delinquent owners on
payment plans for unpaid liens
and boarding up vacant homes.
The sharp policy shift,
while a boon for frustrated
neighbors, has some residents
nervous about potential abuses
of power. The city will only
take on documented vacant
and abandoned homes, but
some wonder what would pre-
vent the city from foreclosing
on any property that generates
too many complaints.
Another unemployment
measure, known as U-6,
rose to 10.3 percent after
it was below 10 percent in
April. The figure includes
discouraged workers who
stopped looking as well
as part-time workers who
want but can’t get full-time
jobs.
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