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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017
Brown takes oath as Oregon’s elected governor
ing with community activists
and gun control advocates that
believe in common sense leg-
islation, and frankly we strug-
gled to get broad support to
move forward on that legisla-
tion, but it doesn’t mean that I
am giving up,” Brown said.
Democrat unveils legislative agenda
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Gov. Kate
Brown was sworn in for the
first time as elected governor
Monday after serving in the
position for nearly two years.
The governor used her inau-
gural address to unveil her leg-
islative agenda for the year.
“Under my leadership, we
will continue to move Oregon
forward,” Brown told an audi-
ence in the state House of Rep-
resentatives chamber.
Brown, as secretary of state,
ascended to the governorship
in February 2015 when then-
Gov. John Kitzhaber stepped
down amid a scandal over con-
sulting contracts awarded to
his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes. In
Oregon, where there is no lieu-
tenant governor, the secretary
of state is next in line.
She became the first openly
bisexual governor in national
history.
Brown was elected in
November with an overwhelm-
ing majority to complete that
last two years of Kitzhaber’s
four-year term, defeating
Republican challenger, Dr.
Bud Pierce of Salem.
During her speech Mon-
day, Brown called on lawmak-
ers to set aside their differences
to work together this session to
tackle a $1.7 billion revenue
shortfall. “We have to come
together and know that we are
all on the same side,” Brown
said.
She also said Oregonians
should resist any attacks on
civil rights in the wake of
Republican billionaire Donald
Trump’s election as president.
“We must guard against
prejudice based on race, eth-
nicity, religion or belief,”
Brown said to applause. “We
must not allow the rights of
any one person or class of peo-
ple to be degraded in any way.
We must stand for our veter-
ans. We must defend the rights
of LGBTQ Oregonians.”
Brown also released her
priorities for the 79th legisla-
tive assembly, which convenes
Feb. 1. Top priorities are the
state’s high school graduation
rate, a transportation funding
package, measures to keep fire-
arms out of the hands of high-
risk individuals and expansion
of health care subsidies to all
children.
Revenue
Her agenda omitted spe-
cific proposals to raise taxes
to address the state’s revenue
shortfall, an issue expected to
be at the center of lawmaker
debate during the session.
However, she continued her
call for better management of
state pension investments, and
she called on lawmakers to
work together to find solutions
to revenue problems.
Voters
in
November
rejected Measure 97, which
would have raised $3 billion a
year in corporate sales taxes.
Brown said she has been
having “informal conversa-
tions” with members of the
business community and labor
community about potential tax
reforms.
“I believe we cannot move
Oregon forward without ade-
quate and stable revenue for
key basic services, and I will
tell you that members of the
business community that I
have spoken with over the last
several months agree, so now
we have to figure out the right
solution that doesn’t provide
further burdens for our work-
ing families across the state and
also ensures that our economy
continues to thrive in every sin-
gle corner,” Brown said.
W A NTED
Call for bipartisanship
Molly J. Smith/Statesman-Journal
Judges from the Oregon Supreme Court, Oregon Court of
Appeals and Oregon Tax Court sit at the dais as Gov. Kate
Brown, top center, delivers her inaugural address Monday
at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem.
Education
Brown’s agenda includes
creating a $20 million grad-
uation equity fund to repli-
cate successful practices from
around the state and address
chronic absenteeism and
expanding mentoring and pro-
fessional development for
teachers.
“My top priority will be to
work to improve Oregon’s high
school graduation rate,” Brown
said.
About 74 percent of Oregon
students graduate within four
years, the third worst rate in the
nation.
Gun control
In July, Brown announced
she would attempt to close two
loopholes in state law on fire-
arm possession.
One proposal would close
the so-called “Charleston loop-
hole,” which allows a gun pur-
chase to move forward if law
enforcement hasn’t determined
the buyer’s eligibility within
three days. She also is seeking
to close the “boyfriend loop-
hole,” which expands the types
of relationships that qualify for
gun dispossession when con-
victed of domestic violence
charges.
Her agenda does not include
another proposal she unveiled
in July to ban the future pur-
chases of expanded capacity
gun magazines.
“I was committed to work-
Brown opened her speech
by invoking Republican Gov.
Tom McCall’s call during his
1967 inaugural address to gov-
ern in a spirit of bipartisanship.
“It is in that spirit that I
address you, the members of
the 79th Oregon Legislative
Assembly; and it is that spirit
that I address all Oregonians,”
Brown said.
Her comments came
shortly after Republicans cried
foul over Brown’s decision to
change her proposal to place a
public records advocate in the
Secretary of State’s Office after
Republican Dennis Richard-
son won election to the posi-
tion. Instead, Brown decided to
propose placing the advocate
in the Department of Adminis-
trative Services, which is under
her control.
Brown was sworn in at
about noon by state Supreme
Court Justice Thomas Balmer.
In her inaugural address, she
gave a nod to elected offi-
cials in the chamber and sin-
gled out state Rep. Vic Gil-
liam, who has continued his
service despite his battle with
Lou Gehrig’s disease and con-
finement to a wheelchair. Lou
Gehrig’s disease, also called
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
or ALS, attacks motor neurons.
Former governors Barbara
Roberts and Ted Kulongoski
attended Brown’s inaugura-
tion ceremony. Kitzhaber and
Neil Goldschmidt, both for-
mer governors whose terms
were touched by scandal, were
absent from the event.
Brown’s
inauguration
capped the swearing in of sev-
eral new lawmakers in the
House of Representatives and
Senate and the reading of more
than 1,500 bills introduced for
the February policymaking
session.
The Capital Bureau is a col-
laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
The governor’s full speech
can be found at http://www.
oregon.gov/gov/media/Pages/
speeches/Inaugural-010917.
aspx
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