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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 2017
Richardson sworn in as secretary of state
First Republican
since 1985
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Dennis Richardson,
the fi rst Republican to serve as Ore-
gon’s Secretary of State since 1985,
took the oath of offi ce Friday morn-
ing at the Oregon Capitol.
Former Secretary of State Phil
Keisling opened the ceremony, fol-
lowed by a keynote speech from
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood
River, the lone Republican in Ore-
gon’s c ongressional delegation.
Walden praised Richardson’s
political career and echoed his
platform.
“I know Dennis understands well
how both transparency and account-
ability are the twin engines of the
Secretary of State’s Offi ce,” Walden
said in remarks from the dais in the
Oregon Senate Chamber.
A Republican has not been
elected to statewide offi ce since
2002, when U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith
won reelection to his second and
fi nal term.
Richardson continued his cam-
paign message of government trans-
parency in his inauguration speech,
and touted his reentry into public
service — he initially retired after
losing the 2014 gubernatorial elec-
tion to Democrat John Kitzhaber.
Richardson quoted a Latin say-
ing — “pro tanto quid retribuamus”
— which has been translated, Rich-
ardson said, as “for those whom so
much has been given, what may we
give?”
Though a Republican, Richard-
Pamplin Media Group
Dennis Richardson was sworn in Friday as Oregon secretary of
state. His first day in office will be Tuesday .
son said he will operate the Secretary
of State’s Offi ce as a nonpartisan.
Richardson’s fi rst day on the job
is Tuesday .
Keisling, Oregon’s secretary of
state from 1991 to 1999, praised
Richardson’s public service.
In the past week, however, Rich-
ardson has gotten some heat for two
key appointments — Leslie Cum-
mings as deputy secretary of state,
and Steve Trout as the head of
elections.
Trout led the elections division
when now-Gov. Kate Brown was
secretary of state. Having been hired
in 2009, he resigned from the post
in 2013, the year after, The Orego-
nian reported, Brown received crit-
icism for providing late notice to
candidates that the 2012 election for
labor commissioner would be held
in November and not in May.
Cummings, meanwhile, will join
the Secretary of State’s Offi ce from
the joint Offi ce of Information Ser-
vices for the Oregon Health Author-
ity and Department of Human Ser-
vices, where she is a strategic
analyst.
Cummings resigned from her
post managing technology proj-
ects at the Oregon Employment
Department in 2013. The Oregonian
reported Thursday that she resigned
after allegations that a project she
managed slowed other projects
down and wasted money, a connec-
tion that a spokesman for Richard-
son took issue with Friday.
Cummings is married to leg-
islative fi scal analyst Bob Cum-
mings. According to The Oregonian,
Bob Cummings’ communications
about the project to agency leaders
also prompted probes by the state
Department of Justice and the state
ethics commission, which were both
dropped.
Richardson’s
spokesman,
Michael Calcagno, claimed Friday
that Leslie Cummings became the
“scapegoat” for management issues
at the employment department.
Calcagno
claimed
Cum-
mings was a whistleblower who
approached management and the
Legislature about management
issues.
“… To lay all of the mismanage-
ment and issues at Leslie’s feet, is, I
think, not accurate,” Calcagno said.
“… Ultimately, the agency director
of the Oregon Employment Depart-
ment was replaced and so our per-
spective is this was a top-down
management problem and it was a
cultural problem in that agency.”
Calcagno said the ethics com-
mission voted unanimously to dis-
miss the nepotism allegations. The
Department of Justice investigation
was closed due to insuffi cient evi-
dence, The Oregonian reported.
In a statement Friday, Richard-
son stood by his appointments:
“I’m proud of the profession-
als on my team who hold high eth-
ics, strong character and moral res-
olution,” he said. “Some of my new
staff have demonstrated leadership
and honor during their periods of
public employment. They held true
to their values and did the right thing
despite political pressure: refusing
to stay silent amid wasted public
resources and unethical leadership
that drove their agencies into the
shadows by avoiding accountability
and transparency.”
He also said his staff’s experi-
ence would help “change the culture
of dysfunction, whitewashing and
toxic partisanship so we can move
Oregon forward.”
The Capital Bureau is a collab-
oration between EO Media Group
and Pamplin Media Group.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
36
25
24
Mainly clear and very
cold
Salem
22/33
Newport
26/37
Full
Eugene
22/32
Last
Jan 12
Coos Bay
32/45
New
Jan 19
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
10:39 a.m.
10:51 p.m.
Low
2.9 ft.
0.5 ft.
Burns
2/19
Lakeview
15/27
Ashland
26/37
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60
20
80
50
32
57
61
64
85
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72
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43
51
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51
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The Daily Astorian
Recology Western Oregon is holding an
annual one-day Christmas tree recycling
pickup on Jan. 10 for residents within the
city limits of Astoria at no extra charge.
Trees must be at the closest street corner
by 7 a.m., and meet the following criteria:
be free of fl ocking and all decorations, and
trees that are over 5 feet in height, or have
trunks with a diameter over 5 inches, must
be cut up into smaller pieces.
For information about this pickup, or
other tree disposal and recycling options,
contact Recology Western Oregon at
rwoinfo@recology.com or 503-861-0578.
Christopher
Jones
gye Hambrick and Joan (Tony)
Gross; uncles Alvin, David Gail,
Buster (Janice), John Hambrick Jr.
and Carey A. Jones.
He was preceded in death by his
grandparents Winfred and Marietta
Jones and John and Anna (Murray)
Hambrick; aunt Doris (Jim) Mills;
and special cousins Steven Mason,
Cassandra Gail Hambrick Gerber and
Yvonne Prettyman.
A celebration of life will be
announced at a later date.
DEATHS
Dec. 28, 2016
BENSON, Virginia May, 89, of Warrenton,
died in Warrenton. Hughes-Ransom Mortu-
ary & Crematory in Seaside is in charge of the
arrangements.
Dec. 30, 2016
BENNETT, Sally Marion, 72, of Seaside,
died in Seaside. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary
& Crematory in Seaside is in charge of the
arrangements.
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
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Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
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33
42
36
38
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Lo
60
38
35
9
29
38
36
-2
63
47
31
41
47
55
74
59
58
41
41
42
46
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Baker
1/12
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
Tonight's Sky: After sunset low in the west, Venus
and Mars will be on either side of a thin, waxing
crescent moon.
Hi
66
42
39
47
41
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54
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53
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58
68
84
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La Grande
10/16
Ontario
8/17
Klamath Falls
16/32
Astoria Christmas
tree pickup scheduled
Astoria
April 4, 1975 — Dec. 23, 2016
Christopher Mykael “Big C”
Jones was born April 4, 1975, in San
Diego, California, and passed away
Dec. 23, 2016, in Astoria, Oregon.
He was 41.
He is survived by his soulmate
Susan Prettyman; children Brody
Orion and Noah Phoenix Jones;
father Larry (Pam) Jones of Para-
gould, Arkansas; mother Rosetta
Jones of Astoria; stepbrothers Kelly
Biggs, Cameron Shoe and George
Gosnell; aunts Belinda Dacus, Peg-
Roseburg
28/40
Brookings
34/45
Jan 27
John Day
11/25
Bend
2/13
Medford
28/38
UNDER THE SKY
High
8.3 ft.
8.3 ft.
Prineville
2/17
Lebanon
22/33
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washing-
ton State attorney general says drones are
just like boats when it comes to protecting
orcas.
KING-TV reported that Attorney Gen-
eral Bob Ferguson released an opinion
Friday saying state law says “vessels and
other objects” can’t come within 200 yards
of an orca and that includes drones.
Ferguson says the Legislature most
likely meant to include drones in the term
‘other objects.’
The case stems from Mercer Island pho-
tographer Douglas Shih, who was cited
after using a drone to take pictures of orcas
in the San Juan Islands last year.
State fi sh and wildlife Sgt. Russ Mull-
ins says the drone was 20 to 30 yards over
a pod of whales.
Christopher Mykael Jones
Mostly cloudy and chilly
with rain
Pendleton
11/12
The Dalles
19/20
Portland
22/30
Sunset tonight ........................... 4:41 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:58 a.m.
Moonrise today ......................... 10:33 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 9:38 p.m.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Chilly with times of
clouds and sun
Tillamook
23/35
SUN AND MOON
Time
4:50 a.m.
4:16 p.m.
Brisk and cold with plenty
of sunshine
42
31
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
24/36
Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.09"
Month to date ................................... 0.09"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.34"
Year to date ...................................... 0.09"
Normal year to date .......................... 0.34"
Jan 5
39
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Associated Press
OBITUARIES
FRIDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 44°/32°
Normal high/low ........................... 49°/37°
Record high ............................ 60° in 1981
Record low ............................. 14° in 1979
First
38
26
Breezy and cold with
plenty of sun
ALMANAC
THURSDAY
Washington state:
drones can’t get
too close to orcas
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Port of Astoria Commission,
5 p.m., workshop, new Port
offi ces, 10 Pier 1, Suite 209.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Seaside Library Board, 4:30
p.m., Seaside Library, 1131
Broadway.
Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer
District Board, 6 p.m., 34583
U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Cannon Beach City Council, 7
p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
WEDNESDAY
Maritime Memorial Com-
mittee, 1 p.m., Holiday Inn
Conference Room 204, West
Marine Dr.
Port of Astoria Commission, 4
p.m. executive session (closed
to public), new Port offi ces, 10
Pier 1, Suite 304.
Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners, 5 p.m., work
session on charter review com-
mittee, Judge Guy Boyington
Building, 857 Commercial St.,
Astoria.
Seaside Improvement Com-
mission, 6:30 p.m., City Hall,
989 Broadway.
Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 698 Pacifi c Way.
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