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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016
Pierce press aide quits over debate
Riled by stance
on violence
against women
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Stacey Kafka, press secre-
tary for Bud Pierce, has left
the GOP gubernatorial nom-
inee’s campaign because
of comments the candidate
made about violence against
women at a debate Friday.
“As a young woman, I was
greatly offended by what was
said at the Portland City Club
(debate), and that is why I am
Stacey Kafka
Bud Pierce
no longer with the Bud Pierce
campaign,” Kafka said.
Pierce made the comments
in a response to a question
about what the candidates
would do to improve the lot
of women in Oregon. The
question made reference to
a recent report showing that
Oregon women experience
sexual assault and domestic
violence at a greater rate than
the national average.
“A woman that has great
education and training and a
great job is not susceptible to
this kind of abuse by men,”
Pierce said.
He made the comment
after Gov. Kate Brown
answered the question and
publicly disclosed in her
response that she has been
a victim of domestic vio-
lence. He later apologized to
Brown and others who were
offended by his comments.
He told the Pamplin Media
Group/EO Media Group
that he misstated his words
and had meant to say that
women who are educated
and who have resources are
better able to escape abusive
situations.
Kafka, 25, said that she
resigned two hours after the
debate between Pierce and
Brown. “As a strong woman,
I felt I needed to stand for my
moral values,” Kafka said.
The Pierce campaign
reported Monday that Kafka
resigned for personal rea-
sons. Kafka is engaged to
Jacob Daniels, Oregon state
director for Republican pres-
idential nominee Donald
Trump.
On Friday, Oregon Public
Broadcasting reported that
Trump was pulling Daniels
— his lone paid campaign
staff member in Oregon —
out of the state. The Trump
campaign sent Daniels to
Michigan instead, where
Trump is trying to gain a lead
on Clinton.
Kafka said her decision
had nothing to do with Dan-
iels’ new assignment. She has
no plans to move to Mich-
igan, as some Republicans
were suggesting on Twitter.
Pierce recently yanked
his endorsement of Trump
because of Trump’s offensive
comments. The Salem oncol-
ogist said at the time that
he had no plans to vote for
Trump or Democratic nomi-
nee Hillary Clinton.
“I haven’t paid much
attention to Donald Trump
until this campaign hon-
estly,” Pierce said at Friday’s
debate. “I don’t like real-
ity TV, but it’s clear to me
from the language he uses
and what he says and how he
offends people.”
Kafka, a former reporter
for KEZI 9 in Eugene, joined
the Pierce campaign in June.
Nellie deVries of deVries
Public Affairs is serving as
Pierce’s new press secretary.
deVries said Monday the
campaign has no further com-
ment on Kafka’s departure.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Katrina, which caused major damage to South Florida in 2005,
and Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, leveled much of the
city of Homestead in 1992. The latter storm was on the minds of
some oficials Tuesday — both Miami-Dade County Commission
Chairman Jean Monestime and U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo mistak-
enly called the current hurricane “Andrew” during a press confer-
ence, drawing nervous laughter.
Associated Press
Pence calm and steady, but
dodges in defending Trump
WASHINGTON — Republican Mike Pence was calm and
steady in the face of Democrat Tim Kaine’s iery and frequent
challenges. But when it came to defending Donald Trump, Pence
dodged, sidestepped or was silent about some of his running mate’s
most provocative words.
Kaine aggressively pressured Pence to vouch for Trump
throughout the 90-minute debate, often citing the brash business-
man’s own words. Pence defended Trump’s tax history, but maneu-
vered around criticism of Trump’s demeaning comments about
women, his public doubting of President Barack Obama’s citizen-
ship and broader questions about temperament.
“I can’t imagine how Governor Pence can defend the insult-
driven, me-irst style of Donald Trump,” said Kaine, the Virginia
senator and Hillary Clinton’s No. 2.
The usually easygoing Kaine went on the attack from the
start and seemed determined to make the debate a referendum
on whether Trump has the disposition for the Oval Ofice. He
slammed Trump for having called women pigs and slobs, and con-
demned the GOP nominee’s praise of Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
Pence frequently avoided taking the bait — a shrewd move for
a conservative darling who could have eyes on the Oval Ofice
himself if Trump loses in November. But for voters seeking assur-
ances from Pence about Trump’s temperament, there was little to
cling to.
Bahamas next up for Matthew
after destructive path in Haiti
PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti — Hurricane Matthew churned toward
the Bahamas early today with a spreading mix of high winds,
heavy rains and a dangerous storm surge, leaving widespread dam-
age and human suffering behind in Haiti’s poor, rural southwest-
ern peninsula.
At least 11 deaths had been blamed on the powerful storm
during its weeklong march across the Caribbean, ive of them in
Haiti. But with a key bridge washed out, roads impassable and
phone communications down, the western tip of Haiti was isolated
and there was no word on dead and injured.
Forecasters said the high winds, pounding rains and storm
surge were already beginning to have an impact in the southern
Bahamas as the powerful Category 3 hurricane left Haiti and east-
ern Cuba behind and marched toward the island chain over open
waters today.
A day earlier, Matthew swept across a remote area of Haiti with
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Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence,
left, and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim
Kaine exchange opinions as moderator Elaine Quijano of
CBS News listens during the vice-presidential debate at
Longwood University in Farmville, Va., Tuesday.
145 mph winds, and government leaders said they weren’t close
to fully gauging the impact in the vulnerable, lood-prone country
where less powerful storms have killed thousands.
“What we know is that many, many houses have been dam-
aged. Some lost rooftops and they’ll have to be replaced while
others were totally destroyed,” Interior Minister Francois Anick
Joseph said.
Complacency worries oicials as
Hurricane Matthew nears Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Matthew’s slog
toward the East Coast has government oficials worried about
complacency, especially in South Florida, which hasn’t seen a
major hurricane in 11 years.
South Carolina’s governor said she would issue an evacuation
order today so that 1 million people would have time to leave the
coast, and residents up and down the Eastern seaboard locked to
hardware stores, grocery aisles and gas stations to prepare for the
powerful storm.
A dangerous Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 125
mph, Matthew was bearing down on the southern Bahamas early
today amid forecasters’ predictions it would be very near Flori-
da’s Atlantic coast by Thursday evening. Already the hurricane
was spreading high winds, heavy rain and a dangerous storm surge
ahead of it on its approach to the Bahamas, forecasters said.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Matthew —
recently a Category 4 storm and at one brief point a ierce Category
5 — will remain a powerful storm at least through Thursday night.
It added that while maximum winds decreased slightly in recent
hours, the luctuation in intensity was expected and some slight
strengthening is forecast in coming days.
Oficials hope to avoid a repeat of Hurricanes Wilma and
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PORTLAND — An Oregon teenager has invented a bandage
that can tell doctors when it needs to be changed, impressing Goo-
gle judges and securing a $15,000 scholarship.
Anushka Naiknaware, 13, placed in the top eight in an inter-
national science contest run by Google. She won the Lego Edu-
cation Builder Award, which included the scholarship, a free trip
to Lego world headquarters in Denmark and a year of entrepre-
neurship mentoring from a Lego executive, reported the Orego-
nian/OregonLive (http://bit.ly/2cQeemn ).
Large wounds must be kept moist to promote healing, but
changing bandages too often to check moisture levels can make
things worse. To solve that problem, Naiknaware, a seventh-grader
at Stoller Middle School in Portland, designed and tested a ban-
dage that is embedded with tiny monitors. They can sense moisture
levels and allow medical workers to determine whether the dress-
ing has dried out enough that the bandage needs to be changed.
Naiknaware created the sensors by printing a fractal pattern
using ink containing graphene nanoparticles. The particles can
accurately detect when moisture levels have dropped.
Google judges named her one of 16 global inalists, all of whom
traveled to the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Califor-
nia, to present their project. Naiknaware was the youngest person
to win one of the global prizes.
Turkish soldier, 2 Syrian rebels
killed ighting IS in Syria
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish military oficials say two Syr-
ian opposition ighters and a Turkish soldier were killed in clashes
with Islamic State militants in northern Syria. At least 18 IS ight-
ers were also killed.
The oficials said today that the two rebels were killed in bat-
tles southwest of the town of al-Rai, during which the Turkish
backed-opposition forces took control of four residential areas:
Turkmen Bari, Kuaybah, Boztepe and Hardanah.
Separately, a Turkish soldier was killed and three others were
slightly wounded in ighting in the opposition-held area of Ziyara,
which a group of IS militants tried to iniltrate.
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