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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016
‘Things will change. I know he’s not going to be perfect.
But he’s got a heart. And he gives people hope.’
Doug Ratliff
a 67-year-old businessman from Richlands, Virginia
Outsider Trump wins stunning
victory to become next president
Will govern with
a GOP Congress
With 97’s
defeat,
deficit
looms
By JULIE PACE
AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON — A day after
Donald Trump, against all odds,
won election as America’s 45th
president, Hillary Clinton today
said the nation proved to be “more
divided than we thought” but urged
unity and told her supporters, “We
owe him an open mind and a chance
to lead.”
Standing before a crowd of crest-
fallen but cheering supporters, she
said, “This is painful and it will be
for a long time.”
Trump’s triumph over Clinton,
not declared until well after mid-
night, will end eight years of Dem-
ocratic dominance of the White
House. He’ll govern with Congress
fully under Republican control and
lead a country deeply divided by his
rancorous campaign against Clin-
ton. He faces fractures within his
own party, too, given the numer-
ous Republicans who either tepidly
supported his nomination or never
backed him at all.
As he claimed victory early
today, Trump urged Americans
to “come together as one united
people.”
That sentiment was echoed by
the GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan,
who had been a reluctant Trump
supporter. “This needs to be a time
of redemption, not a time of recrimi-
nation,” Ryan said in a news confer-
ence. He also said Trump had earned
a “mandate” to enact his agenda.
“We have to do a great job, and
I promise you that I will not let you
down,” he said this morning.
Clinton, who had hoped to
become the first woman to be elected
president, called her Republican
rival to concede but did not plan
to speak publicly until this morn-
ing. She was leading the nationwide
popular vote. Though some states
were still counting ballots.
Global stock markets and U.S.
stock futures plunged early today,
but later recovered, reflecting inves-
tor concern over what a Trump pres-
idency might mean. The Dow Jones
industrial average was flat after trad-
ing opened today.
President Barack Obama called
Trump to congratulate him and
invited the Republican to a meeting
at the White House Thursday to dis-
cuss transition. Obama also called
Clinton to convey his admiration
for the “strong campaign she waged
throughout the country,” White
House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Obama planned a televised state-
ment today on “what steps we can
take as a country to come together
after this hard-fought election sea-
son,” the White House said.
Trump, who spent much of the
campaign urging his supporters on
as they chanted “lock her up,” said
the nation owed Clinton “a major
debt of gratitude” for her years of
public service. Trump campaign
Legislature must
address sizable
revenue shortfall
AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer as they watch election returns
during an election night rally Tuesday in New York.
AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
AP Photo/Craig Ruttle
Marci Morimoto of New York, center, embraces James Armstrong of
New York outside the Jacob Javits Center during a rally for Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in New York early this morning.
manager Kellyanne Conway said
Obama and Trump had “a very nice
talk” when the president called him.
The Republican blasted through
Democratic strongholds of Penn-
sylvania and Wisconsin, states that
hadn’t voted for a GOP presiden-
tial candidate since the 1980s. He
needed to win nearly all of the com-
petitive battleground states, and
he did just that, including Florida,
Ohio, North Carolina and others.
A New York real estate developer
who lives in a sparkling Manhat-
tan high-rise, Trump forged a strik-
ing connection with white, work-
ing class Americans who feel left
behind in a changing economy and
diversifying country. He cast immi-
gration, both from Latin America
and the Middle East, as the root of
problems plaguing many Americans
and tapped into fears of terrorism
emanating at home and abroad.
GOP Senate candidates fended
off Democratic challengers in key
states, including North Carolina,
Indiana and Wisconsin. Republi-
cans also maintained their grip on
the House.
Senate control means Trump
will have great leeway in appoint-
ing Supreme Court justices, which
could shift the bench to the right for
decades.
Trump has pledged to usher in
sweeping changes to U.S. foreign
policy, including building a wall
along the U.S.-Mexico border and
suspending immigration from coun-
tries with terrorism ties. He has
praised Russian President Vladimir
Putin and spoken of building a better
relationship with Moscow, worrying
some in his own party who fear he’ll
go easy on Putin’s provocations.
Putin sent him a telegram of
congratulations.
Trump upended years of political
convention on his way to the White
House, leveling harshly personal
insults against his rivals, deeming
Mexican immigrants rapists and
murderers, and vowing to temporar-
ily suspend Muslim immigration to
the U.S. He never released his tax
returns, breaking with decades of
campaign tradition, and eschewed
the kind of robust data and field
efforts that helped Obama win two
terms in the White House, relying
instead on his large, free-wheeling
President-elect Donald Trump
smiles as he arrives to speak at
an election night rally early this
morning in New York.
rallies to energize supporters. His
campaign was frequently in chaos,
and he cycled through three cam-
paign managers.
Conway, his final campaign
manager, touted the team’s accom-
plishments as the final results rolled
in, writing on Twitter that “rally
crowds matter” and “we expanded
the map.”
Clinton faced persistent ques-
tions about her honesty and trust-
worthiness. Those troubles flared
anew late in the race, when FBI
Director James Comey announced a
review of new emails from her ten-
ure at the State Department. Just two
days before Election Day, Comey
said there was nothing in the mate-
rial to warrant criminal charges
against Clinton.
Trump will inherit an anxious
nation, deeply divided by economic
and educational opportunities, race
and culture.
Exit polls underscored the frac-
tures: Women nationwide supported
Clinton by a double-digit margin,
while men were significantly more
likely to back Trump. More than half
of white voters backed the Republi-
can, while nearly 9 in 10 blacks and
two-thirds of Hispanics voted for
the Democrat.
Brown faces $1.4 billion deficit, other issues
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
After winning her first elected
term, Gov. Kate Brown faces a
challenging two years in which she
will have to address an estimated
$1.4 billion revenue shortfall and
pressure to pass a transportation
package.
While voters sent Brown back
to the Governor’s Office with 51
percent support as of late Tuesday
night, they defeated a $6 billion cor-
porate sales tax measure that would
have paid for both of those costs.
Pierce received 43 percent of the
vote.
Brown endorsed Measure 97,
which would have levied a 2.5 per-
cent tax on certain corporations’
Oregon sales exceeding $25 million.
In her speech Tuesday, she didn’t
address how she plans to address the
revenue shortfall, and her spokes-
man did not respond to a message
Tuesday seeking more details on
her post-Measure 97 plan. Other
lawmakers said Tuesday they plan
Pamplin Media Group
Rebecca Tweed, head of the
anti-Measure 97 campaign,
said a large coalition of
consumers and businesses
helped defeat the corporate
tax proposal.
Pamplin Media Group
Gov. Kate Brown addresses supporters after her win Tuesday.
to propose a more “reasonable” rev-
enue package in 2017. Brown will
have a Democratic majority in the
House and Senate, which likely will
make a potential revenue package
easier to attain.
“I am so honored to be serving
as your governor for the next two
years, Brown told a crowd at the
Oregon Convention Center Tues-
day. “Thank you so very much.
I will fight to make sure that our
schools open the doors of oppor-
tunity for all of our students, I will
fight to make sure our economy
grows in every single corner of the
state, and I will fight to preserve the
bounty of Oregon for generations to
come.”
As former secretary of state,
Brown was next in line to the Gov-
ernor’s Office when Gov. John
Kitzhaber resigned in Febru-
ary 2015 over an influence-ped-
dling scandal. She and Pierce, a
Salem physician and political nov-
ice, sought to complete the last two
years of Kitzhaber’s four-year term.
Brown will be eligible to run for
another term in 2018.
Her first initiative as governor
— to pass a $343.5 million trans-
portation package in 2015 — failed
to gain momentum after the Depart-
ment of Transportation provided
faulty numbers on some of the proj-
ects. Brown pushed back the trans-
portation package to 2017. A leg-
islative group continues to look
at potential packages for next ses-
sion, which likely would involve an
increase in the gas tax.
The Capital Bureau is a collab-
oration between EO Media Group
and Pamplin Media Group.
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — After vot-
ers defeated Measure 97 Tues-
day, the battle over increasing
taxes on corporations is likely
to rage on in the Oregon Legis-
lature in 2017.
Lawmakers plan to propose
a more “reasonable” tax reve-
nue proposal next session to off-
set a $1.4 billion revenue short-
fall in the 2017-18 budget, said
Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton.
“I think policy will be devel-
oped by lawmakers and inter-
ested parties at the next ses-
sion,” said Rebecca Tweed,
Defeat the Tax on Oregon Sales
campaign coordinator. “Our
coalition came together for the
purpose of defeating this $6
billion tax on sales, and we’re
thankful we were able to do
that.”
Proponents of Measure
97 vowed to lobby lawmak-
ers to make large corporations
pay a larger share of Oregon’s
tax revenue and protect invest-
ments in education and health
care, which the measure was
intended to support.
“We are going to keep fight-
ing,” said Ben Unger, campaign
manager for Yes on 97.
The campaign was sched-
uled to release details of its
next steps at a news confer-
ence Wednesday, Nov. 9. Unger
declined to comment Tuesday
on whether the public employee
union-backed Our Oregon
would attempt another ballot
measure in 2018.
Measure 97 failed Tuesday
58 percent to 41 percent. The
measure would have levied a
2.5 percent tax on certain cor-
porations’ Oregon sales exceed-
ing $25 million per year.
A coalition of businesses
raised a record-breaking $26.5
million to thwart the measure.
Proponents raised about $17.7
million. The ballot measure was
the most expensive in the state’s
history.
“Voters didn’t buy claims
that the $6 billion tax, based on
business sales instead of prof-
its, would not increase con-
sumer costs,” Tweed said. “And
they understood that the money
raised could have been used any
way legislators wanted to spend
it.”
The opposition’s blast of
advertising on television, radio
and social media drove home
projections by the nonpartisan
Legislative Revenue Office that
consumers ultimately would
pay for much of the measure in
the form of higher prices. The
office estimated that the typical
family would pay about $600
more per year under Measure
97.
Unger said Tuesday his only
regret during the campaign was
that Yes on 97 failed to raise as
much money as the opposition.
He said he believed his cam-
paign’s message resonated with
voters.
“We didn’t win this election
this time, but we did win the
debate,” Unger said. “Because
of the work we did, no one
is going to accept a proposed
school cut or more expen-
sive health care before ask-
ing instead of cuts, why not
make corporations pay their fair
share?”