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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017
Oregon Democrats call for party unity in wake of Trump victory
Seek to end rift
left over from
bitter primary
Hillary Clinton — those fault
lines were felt in Oregon, as
well.
In its report on recent
accomplishments, the party
characterized the election of
Trump and the party’s loss of
the Oregon Secretary of State’s
Offi ce as “heartbreaks.”
Republican Dennis Richard-
son won the offi ce over state
Labor Commissioner Brad
Avakian, a Democrat.
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Seemingly
energized by a common enemy
— President Donald Trump —
the Democratic Party of Ore-
gon convened for a leadership
reorganization in Salem this
weekend.
Many candidates for party
positions spoke of uniting the
party in the wake of a divi-
sive presidential election by
appealing to rural voters and
fostering an overall culture of
inclusivity.
While the presidential elec-
tion revealed fractures within
the national Democratic party
— roughly along the lines of
those who supported U.S. Sen.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont ,
and those who supported for-
mer U.S. Secretary of State
Atkins new
chairwoman
On Sunday, Democratic
Party of Oregon delegates
elected former Oregon Secre-
tary of State Jeanne Atkins to
chair the party.
Atkins is a former staffer
for U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley,
D-Oregon, and was appointed
secretary of state in early 2015,
when then-Secretary of State
Kate Brown became governor
after the resignation of former
Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Atkins, who did not seek
election to the offi ce and
intended to retire from pub-
lic service, said she was moti-
vated to jump back into poli-
tics by Trump’s election.
In a speech before party
delegates cast their votes,
Atkins acknowledged the par-
ty’s recent setbacks.
But she said Oregon Dem-
ocrats have had successes as
well — such as the recent pas-
sage and implementation of
the country’s fi rst automatic
voter registration law and
raising the state’s minimum
wage.
Atkins said she seeks to
include and mobilize the
ranks of people she said were
turning to the Democratic
party to “resist the dark vision
of Donald Trump and his fel-
low Republicans.”
“Our task is to open our
organization to them,” Atkins
said, “to encourage and work
alongside these new orga-
nizations and individuals to
make change, and to do our
job of electing leaders who
endorse our Democratic val-
ues of fairness, justice and
opportunity.”
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Associated Press
WARRENTON — The
U.S. Coast Guard helped res-
cue a diver near the entrance to
Tillamook Bay.
A Coast Guard spokesper-
son in Seattle says two boats
SEASIDE
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dence Seaside Hospital pres-
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ing Healthy and on Your Feet”
from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thurs-
day in the hospital’s Educa-
tion Room A, lower level, at
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Republican from Ashland, in a
special election last year.
Across the board, Ore-
gon Democrats are eager to
maintain their hold on the
governorship.
Gov. Brown, who was
elected in November to fi n-
ish the term of her predeces-
sor, is up for reelection in 2018.
A Republican has not held the
position since the late Vic Ati-
yeh, who served from 1979 to
1987.
Some divisions within Ore-
gon’s Democratic Party were
not only over presidential can-
didates, but philosophy.
‘Move on’
Saying he sought to restore
trust and confi dence in the
party, new male Vice Chairman
Valdez Bravo called on party
members to “move on” from
the 2016 campaign.
“If we’re to accomplish
our bold ambitions and fi ght
against a fascist right-wing
agenda, then we have to stop
seeing each other as Bernie
versus Hillary,” Bravo, who
ran unopposed, said. “We have
to stop seeing each other as
establishment versus grass-
roots. We have to stop seeing
each other as radical versus lib-
eral, and quite simply, we have
to stop seeing each other as us
versus them.”
Bravo said he believed the
party had a chance to strengthen
in Oregon’s predominantly
Republican-leaning rural coun-
ties by sending more resources
east of the mountains and
emphasizing party leadership
in individual counties.
Lupita Maurer, who was
elected Sunday as the party’s
female vice chairwoman, said
in remarks prior to her vic-
tory that the party needed to
go beyond “lip service” to a
strategy of working in all Ore-
gon’s counties, and that the
party needed to help counties
develop programs to foster
Democratic leadership on the
neighborhood level.
The Capital Bureau is a col-
laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
Diver rescued in Tillamook Bay
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Roseburg
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Brookings
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Apr 19
Baker
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John Day
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Medford
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UNDER THE SKY
High
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Prineville
29/57
Lebanon
41/61
Her opponent for chair,
Larry Taylor of Astoria, who
has been involved with the
party on the local, state and
national level for 20 years,
said that Oregon Democrats
had sent a message to party
leadership in last year’s elec-
tion that they wanted a change.
“In Oregon, (voters) elected
a Republican as secretary of
state, and 28 out of 36 coun-
ties voted for Trump,” Taylor
said. In some counties east of
the Cascades, more than 70
percent of voters cast their bal-
lots for Trump, according to
the Secretary of State’s Offi ce.
Taylor also communicated
a sense of urgency in main-
taining the party’s hold on the
state Legislature, saying that
Democrats needed to run in
races for all state legislative
seats.
In the most recent elec-
tion, one state Senate seat
fl ipped from blue to red, as the
late Sen. Alan Bates, D-Med-
ford, who died in August, was
replaced by Alan DeBoer, a
and a helicopter were dis-
patched Sunday after an alert
that multiple divers were in
distress.
After the rescue of the fi rst
distressed diver, the search con-
tinued until the second diver
surfaced and returned to shore
Providence Seaside helps
to prevent falls, stay active
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44/58
Eugene
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Full
Pendleton
37/55
The Dalles
41/59
Portland
44/56
Sunset tonight ........................... 7:38 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:03 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 7:09 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 7:26 p.m.
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.76"
Month to date ................................. 13.44"
Normal month to date ....................... 6.35"
Year to date .................................... 31.32"
Normal year to date ........................ 23.74"
Mar 27
FRIDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 51°/43°
Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40°
Record high ............................ 72° in 1994
Record low ............................. 29° in 1996
New
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Cloudy with occasional
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THURSDAY
Taylor was challenger
725 S. Wahanna Drive. Ways
to prevent a fall are discussed,
and the presentation includes a
short introduction to t ai c hi.
There is no cost for this
event, but registration is
required. To register, go to
www.providence.org/classes
or call 800-562-8964.
Program helps entrepreneurs
The Daily Astorian
The Oregon Technology
Business Center, with sup-
port from the Janette G. Drew
Fund of the Oregon Commu-
nity Foundation, is seeking an
entrepreneur from the North
Coast to participate in a six
month Virtual Incubation Pro-
gram beginning April 14.
The program offers inten-
sive education and mentor-
ing to rural entrepreneurs . Jim
McCreight, an organizer of
the program, said downtown
Astoria spice shop Pat’s Pan-
try used the program to open
a second location in Portland.
The program is limited to
between 12 and 15 entrepre-
neurs. The total six-month
cost is $79. Information and
an application can be found at
www.otbc.org/vip. The dead-
line to apply is April 3.
DEATHS
March 24, 2017
ENSLOW, Susan M., 69,
of Astoria, died in Astoria.
Hughes-Ransom
Mortuary
& Crematory in Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
March 25, 2017
ENGBLOM, Robert Har-
ris, 90, of Knappa, died in
Knappa. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary in Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Clatsop Care Health District
Board, noon, Clatsop Care
Memory Community, 2219
Dolphin Ave., Warrenton.
Astoria Library Board, 5:30
p.m., Library Flag Room, 450
10th St.
Warrenton City Commission,
6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main
Ave.
Seaside Airport Advisory
Committee, 6 p.m. City Hall,
989 Broadway.
Astoria Traffi c Safety Adviso-
ry Committee, 6:30 p.m., City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
WEDNESDAY
Cannon Beach Tourism and
Arts Commission, 1 p.m., City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Astoria Watershed Forest
Practices Open House, 6 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
without assistance. A third
diver had already made it back
to shore and was not in distress.
The Coast Guard says the
rescued diver is a 54-year-old
man who was taken to Til-
lamook Regional Medical
Center.
LOTTERIES
OREGON
Sunday’s Pick 4:
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4 p.m.: 7-5-0-8
7 p.m.: 4-1-3-2
10 p.m.: 9-3-7-5
Saturday’s Megabucks:
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million
Saturday’s Powerball: 18-
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Friday’s Pick 4:
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4 p.m.: 6-4-9-6
7 p.m.: 5-6-8-5
10 p.m.: 6-0-8-2
Friday’s Mega Millions:
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Estimated jackpot: $162
million
WASHINGTON
Sunday’s Daily Game: 8-3-0
Sunday’s Keno: 02-05-06-
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Sunday’s Match 4: 07-10-
16-21
Saturday’s Daily Game:
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Saturday’s Hit 5: 02-24-31-
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Saturday’s Keno: 05-09-15-
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Saturday’s Lotto: 03-07-14-
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