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Forum: Beneath electorate’s surface is a ‘real lack of awareness’
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“Trump really, really strug-
gled here in Oregon,” Horvick
said.
‘Bad feelings’
During this election cycle,
Oregon’s experience mirrored
that of other states, its mood a
microcosm of the nation’s.
Horvick’s firm asked Orego-
nians in several surveys which
emotion — happiness, sadness,
fear or anger — best describes
how they felt toward the presi-
dential election. Approximately
50 percent said fear.
The firm asked Oregonians
whether they believe, if Clin-
ton or Trump wins, the victor
will cause real damage to the
U.S., or whether the nation
will make it through OK.
“Ninety percent of Clinton
supporters said Trump would
do real damage, and about
90 percent of Trump support-
ers said Clinton would do real
damage,” Horvick said.
In other words, each can-
didate’s supporters did not
merely dislike the other par-
ty’s candidate, but viewed him
or her as a threat to the nation.
The ideological polariza-
Astoria Mayor Arline LaMear listens with other attendees
at the Columbia Forum on Tuesday.
‘Lack of awareness’
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Attendees listen as John Horvick of DHM Research speaks during the Columbia Forum
on Tuesday at the CMH Community Center.
tion has deepened social divi-
sions. DHM Research asked
Oregonians how many of their
friends planned to vote for the
other candidate.
Half of Clinton supporters
said they had no friends who
supported Trump, and about
40 percent of Trump support-
ers said they had no friends
who supported Clinton.
And when asked to use a
word to describe supporters
of the opposing party’s candi-
date, the results, Horvick said,
were “some of the worst words
you could use to describe your
neighbor”: “stupid,” “liars,”
“ignorant,”
“uninformed,”
“racist,” and so on.
“We’re going to get through
this,” Horvick said, “but
underlying the normalcy of the
election in Oregon, we really
do have bad feelings about
the other, and we don’t know
them, and it’s concerning.”
Oregon’s electorate paid a
great deal of attention to the
presidential race, but beneath
the surface is a “real lack of
awareness,” Horvick said.
About once a year, DHM
Research conducts a statewide
survey to gauge voters’ knowl-
edge of basic civics. These
have yielded some distressing
data points.
Asked how many U.S. sen-
ators represent the state, “50
percent of Oregonians can’t
tell you that there’s two,” Hor-
vick said.
Roughly
50
percent
of Oregonians couldn’t
name the three branches of
government.
And — a fact that really
troubles Horvick — asked to
name one of the state’s primary
sources of revenue, only about
30 percent of Oregonians cor-
rectly say the income tax.
So, in conversations about
state policy — whether the
issue is a school bond, or a
tax system overhaul like Mea-
sure 97, “we’re dealing with
an electorate that knows very,
very little about how taxes are
raised and what they pay for,”
Horvick said.
Probe: ‘Butane hash oil extraction process ... is really dangerous’
ity has not inspected Higher
Level, which has also not pro-
vided information on whether
its equipment met state safety
standards. That leaves Astoria
Police and other investigators
to determine whether the com-
pany was following the rules.
“There are 129 individual
items,” Halverson said of all
the guidelines from the health
authority. “We’ll have to go
point-by-point through those.”
Part of the challenge in
determining a cause, Ames
said, was investigators’ inabil-
ity to speak with witnesses.
After the fire, he said, Oei
declined an interview, while
West and Magley were still
recovering from their injuries
in Portland.
In a brief comment over the
phone Tuesday, West said he and
Magley were recently released
from the hospital. “We’re doing
better, but that’s all I care to
comment on,” he said.
He and Oei lease the build-
ing from Richard Delphia,
using the basement portion
for a marijuana growing and
processing site. The two sub-
lease an upper portion of the
building to marijuana dis-
pensary Sweet Relief Natural
Medicine. Sweet Relief, dam-
aged the night of the fire, has
remained closed throughout
the investigation.
Astoria Deputy Police Chief
Eric Halverson said his office
has not had any follow-up with
West or Oei since the night
of the fire, besides issues like
securing the building.
“They’re not required to
speak with us, so we’ll con-
tinue to do what we do and see
where it turns up,” Halverson
said.
Higher Level was allowed
to process marijuana concen-
trates without criminal lia-
bility through the end of the
year under an interim agree-
ment with the Oregon Health
Authority. The company sub-
mitted a full application to be
registered and promised to fol-
low state guidelines on pro-
cessing. But the health author-
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Ames said there were
butane canisters lying around
the basement. A highly flam-
mable and colorless gas, butane
is commonly used to extract
THC, the main psychoactive
component in marijuana, to
create hash oil and other mar-
ijuana concentrates.
“The only thing that we can
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that most likely, the fire was
caused by an unknown ignition
source in a butane vapor-rich
environment,” Ames said.
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