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Debate: Gov. Brown holds strong lead over Pierce in polls
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Foster care crisis
A KGW Facebook user
asked the candidates — via
moderator Tracy Barry —
what their plans are to ensure
all children in foster care are
able to stay in an home envi-
ronment, not a hotel or Depart-
ment of Human Services
Ofice.
“We have to do a better job
of recruiting families and tak-
ing foster children and giving
these families support,” Pierce
said. “They deserve that. We
can’t accept failure.”
“How in the world can this
happen?” Barry asked, turning
to Brown. “Governor, this is
happening on your watch.”
Brown responded that she
has brought in new leadership
to Human Services.
“We have done extensive
work to change both the lead-
ership at the agency and work-
ing very hard to make sure we
have the right systems in place,
but some of this is a resources
issue.”
Brown said that casework-
ers have too many cases and
there aren’t enough resources
to train foster parents.
Health care
KGW reporter Laural Por-
ter noted that health care costs
continue to increase, including
insurance rates.
“Some companies are
choosing to leave the market,”
Porter said. “What would you
do to increase access to health
care while also driving down
the cost of health care for aver-
age Oregon families?”
Brown said her top prior-
ity for the next two years is to
make sure every Oregonian
has access to health care.
“In terms of reducing cost,
we need to look at social deter-
minants of health,” Brown said.
“We know for example that out-
comes are better in terms of
health care if everyone has a
safe and stable house to live in.”
Pierce said having more
Oregonians working would
increase people’s access to
health care. Competitive
health care delivery, generic
pharmaceuticals and promo-
tion of health care innovation
could help reduce costs.
Measure 97
Brown sidestepped a
question concerning how
much of a $6 billion corpo-
rate sales tax measure on
November’s ballot she would
dedicate speciically to edu-
cation. Proponents of Mea-
sure 97 — the 2.5 percent tax
on certain corporations’ Ore-
gon sales exceeding $25 mil-
campaigns through 2018.
Brown holds a strong lead
over Pierce in polls so far and
has raised about $4.5 million
for her campaign. Pierce has
self-funded nearly half of his
campaign, which has raised
about $3.2 million.
President Barack Obama
endorsed Brown on Thursday,
commending her for accom-
plishments such as increas-
ing minimum wage, boosting
career technical education and
landmark renewable energy
laws.
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lion — have said much of
the revenue would support
smaller class sizes and other
education beneits.
Pierce said his state budget
proposal would augment edu-
cation funding with $1.4 bil-
lion. If Measure 97 passed,
he said, he would provide full
funding to meeting the stan-
dard of the Quality Education
Model of about $2 billion.
Brown also declined to
answer a question about
whether if she wins election,
she’ll seek another term in
2018.
Her former campaign
manager has said, however,
that he was hired to run her
Divided: Elective politics remains predominantly male turf
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At the same time, deep
and obvious gaps remain
— not only in terms of eco-
nomic inequality and continu-
ing workplace discrimination,
but in everyday actions and
conversations.
Consider this year’s reboot
of “Ghostbusters,” with women
replacing the male leads of the
original. Misogynistic com-
ments circulated on social
media demanding the ilm’s
stars appear nude or be “hot.”
Or the way some sports
commentators belittled wom-
en’s accomplishments at the
Rio Olympics.
Backlash in Seattle
Or the backlash in, of all
places, progressive Seattle,
after the ive female councilors
voted against the proposed sale
of a street to help make way for
a new arena that could host an
NBA team.
One local attorney, in a
signed email to all ive women,
said, “I can only hope that you
each ind ways to quickly and
painfully end yourselves.”
Council member Lorena
Gonzalez, a lawyer who has
represented victims of sex-
ual abuse, said the controversy
“hit a nerve” because it coin-
cided with a presidential cam-
paign that has exacerbated gen-
der tensions.
Resentment
In many male-dominated
domains, women’s strides have
been slow-paced and, even
then, greeted with resentment.
“Cultural change often
comes with some backlash,”
said Emily Martin, the National
Women’s Law Center’s gen-
eral counsel. “Some people
feel threatened by women’s
progress.”
That culture clash has
become striking in this election
year. As feminists celebrated
Clinton’s glass-shattering nom-
ination with the slogan “I’m
With Her,” Trump claimed the
only thing Clinton had going
Gender in politics
The gender gap in the presidential election, featuring the first
woman to top a major party’s ballot, could be the biggest in
modern times. A recent New York Times poll shows Donald
Trump leading among likely male voters by 11 percentage
points, and Hillary Clinton ahead among likely female voters
by 13 points.
Percentage of eligible adults who reported voting
70 percent
Women 63.7%
65
60
Men 59.8%
55
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City Councilwoman Sally Bashaw explains her “no” vote in May on the issue of whether
to vacate a stretch of road where an investor hopes to eventually build an arena that
could house NBA and NHL teams. For weeks after the vote, the abuse kept coming: Ven-
omous, sexist phone calls and emails, venting rage at the five women on Seattle’s City
Council who outvoted four men to derail a sports arena project.
for her was “the woman’s
card.” Some of his support-
ers wear “Trump that Bitch”
T-shirts.
Polls show Clinton, a Dem-
ocrat, beneiting from a gen-
der gap that’s been a fact of
American politics since 1980,
with women voting for her
party more reliably than men in
each presidential election. This
year’s gap could be the big-
gest ever; a New York Times
poll in mid-September showed
Trump, a Republican, leading
among likely male voters by 11
percentage points, while Clin-
ton led among likely female
voters by 13 points.
Brooke Ackerly, a political
science professor at Vander-
bilt, said the sexist sentiments
on display during the campaign
aren’t new to American poli-
tics, but are louder and more
visible.
“It suggests to me there’s
some latent anger that’s being
given permission to express
itself,” said Ackerly, depicting
Trump as the catalyst for this.
“What’s new is that we’re see-
ing it in public.”
Clinton, of course, has been
targeted by sexist taunts for
many years, and says she takes
them in stride.
Still, said Debbie Walsh,
director of the Center for Amer-
ican Women and Politics at
Rutgers University, “I’m con-
cerned about what it means for
younger women who see this as
what you might confront if you
dare to tread on what is seen as
male turf.”
Still male turf
Indeed, elective politics
remains predominantly male
turf. Women comprise more
than half the U.S. population,
yet account for just a ifth of
all members of Congress and
one-fourth of state lawmakers,
according to a recent Associ-
ated Press survey. And that’s a
better showing than for women
in such ields as construction
and video-game design.
For two years, software
engineer Brianna Wu of Bos-
ton has been a target of the
online harassment campaign
known as Gamergate, which
subjected several women in the
video-game industry to misog-
ynistic threats. It surfaced in
the summer of 2014, and hasn’t
vanished.
“It’s still a constant drum-
beat,” said Wu, who became a
target after ridiculing those who
decried women’s advances in
the male-dominated industry.
Unsurprisingly, Clinton is
backed by the National Organi-
zation for Women and Planned
Parenthood. Trump’s support-
ers include leaders of national
anti-abortion groups.
Some prospective voters
don’t it easily into the obvi-
ous boxes. There are conser-
vative women who disdain
Clinton, yet ind Trump’s
rhetoric and behavior repug-
nant. There are men planning
to vote for Clinton who wish
she would be more outspoken
about challenges facing boys
and fathers.
One of those men is author
Warren Farrell of Mill Valley,
California, a igure in what’s
loosely known as “the men’s
movement.”
“I’m supporting Hillary
Clinton despite the people in her
campaign who are less compas-
sionate toward men, less under-
standing of the importance of
fathers,” said Farrell.
As for Trump, “he rep-
resents everything that women
fear about men — blustery,
50
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’88
’92
’96
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’04
’08
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The gender gap in past elections
YEAR
WINNER
MEN
2012
B. Obama (D)
M. Romney (R)
45%
52
55%
44
B. Obama (D)
J. McCain (R)
49
48
56
43
G. W. Bush (R)
J. Kerry (D)
55
41
48
51
G. W. Bush (R)
Al Gore (D)
53
42
43
54
B. Clinton (D)
B. Dole (R)
43
44
54
38
B. Clinton (D)
G. H. W. Bush (R)
41
38
45
37
G. H. W. Bush (R) 57
M. Dukakis (D)
41
50
49
R. Reagan (R)
W. Mondale (D)
62
37
56
44
R. Reagan (R)
J. Carter (D)
54
37
46
45
2008
2004
2000
1996
1992
1988
1984
1980
WOMEN GENDER GAP
10 pts.
8
7
5
7
10
10
12
11
6
4
1
7
8
6
7
8
8
SOURCE: Center for the American Woman and Politics
grandiose, narcissistic,” Farrell
said.
Trump has many enthusias-
tic female supporters, includ-
ing Amber Smith, who served
in Iraq and Afghanistan as an
Army helicopter pilot.
Smith says Trump “has
a backbone” and perceives
AP
Clinton as seeking to portray
women as victims.
“We live in a country that
provides equal opportunities
for men and woman,” Smith
said. “I wanted to be an air mis-
sion commander based on my
own merits and skill level, not
because of my gender.”
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