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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2017
Even in hometown, constituents rip into Republican lawmaker
on stage in a blue blazer and
plaid shirt, pleaded to Con-
nie Burton over resounding
boos. Her children played with
Walden’s when they were lit-
tle, but the 63-year-old Bur-
ton was now demanding that
the lawmaker oppose Trump’s
voiding of rules blocking
harmful emissions.
“Yes or no,” the audience
yelled when Walden answered
indirectly.
Chosen to ask a question,
one man in the balcony said,
“You seem a like a pro-war pol-
itician. Have you encouraged
your son to join the Marines?”
A woman said, “We are abso-
lutely disgusted that you led a
committee to take away” peo-
ples’ health care, before loud
cheers drowned her out.
“I care about health care.
I know you don’t think that,”
an exasperated Walden said at
one point.
Walden faces
tough crowds
By ALAM FRAM
Associated Press
HOOD RIVER — In the
auditorium of his old middle
school just blocks from where
he still lives, the congress-
man who is a lead author of
the stalled House Republican
health care bill was treated like
the villain in a class play.
It didn’t matter that U.S.
Rep. Greg Walden was on a
fi rst-name basis with many of
the roughly 800 attendees. Or
that Democrats like Gov. Kate
Brown call him congenial and
bright. Or that Walden was just
re-elected to a 10th House term
with 72 percent of the vote in a
safely Republican eastern Ore-
gon district. Or that he is chair-
man of the House Energy and
Commerce Committee.
Walden, 60, encountered
the same angry buzz saw at
town meetings last week that
has greeted his Republican col-
leagues at similar sessions and
prompted others to not even
bother holding them. President
Donald Trump and his party’s
policies on health care, immi-
gration, the environment, the
arts and Syria have whipped
up Democratic voters and lib-
eral organizers while divid-
ing Republicans as well, and
they’re letting GOP lawmak-
ers know it.
“Connie, I tried to answer
you,” Walden, standing alone
Stephanie Yao Long/The Oregonian
People react as U.S. Rep. Greg Walden speaks at a town
hall meeting in The Dalles on Wednesday.
trict’s liberal hub at the foot
of the Cascades, huge crowds
pressed Walden in two-hour
encounters heavy on boister-
ous interruptions and catcalls.
“People are fi red up, and I
know that and I respect that,”
Walden said in an interview.
He said that as the sole Repub-
lican in Oregon’s congressio-
nal delegation, “I am the place
they can come and vent.”
Congress is on a two-week
recess that comes with Trump
and the GOP health care bill
faring dismally in polls, and
Walden was often defensive
about both. Republicans hope
to resuscitate the health care
measure and tackle budget, tax
and infrastructure legislation,
but public reaction — meva-
sured partly by town halls like
Friendlier in Prineville
Walden’s reception was far
friendlier in more GOP-lean-
ing Prineville, set among graz-
ing land over 100 miles to the
south. There were far fewer
interruptions, though from the
bleachers of the Crook County
High School gym, 72-year-
old Republican Steve John-
son yelled that Walden should
“quit dancing around down
there” and produce results in
Congress.
But in Hood River, which
despite its name is on the
banks of the majestic Colum-
bia River, and in Bend, the dis-
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UNDER THE SKY
Jim Campbell, who is run-
ning for re-election as Port of
Astoria Commissioner, Posi-
tion 1, hosts a m eet the c an-
didate event from 5 to 7 p.m.
Thursday.
prepare children for classes in
the fall.
Roundups will be at Seaside
Heights Elementary School
at 3 p.m. April 25; John Jacob
Astor Elementary School at 3
p.m. and 5 p.m. April 27; Hilda
Lahti Elementary at 9:15 a.m.
and 1:15 p.m. April 27; Gear-
hart Elementary School at 3:00
p.m. April 27; Warrenton Grade
The event is in the Columbia
House Party Room, Columbia
House Condominiums, 1 Third
St. N.E. The public is welcome,
and refreshments are provided.
For
information
call
Friends of Jim Campbell 17 at
503-861-9832.
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Home in Tillamook is in
charge of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Knappa School Board, 5:30
p.m., Knappa High School,
41535 Old U.S. Highway 30.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Jewell School Board, 6 p.m.
budget committee meeting,
7:30 p.m., Jewell School library,
83874 Oregon Highway 103.
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Cannon Beach Public Works
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163 E. Gower St.
Sunset Empire Park and Rec
District, 4 p.m., 1225 Ave. A,
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Services Advisory Council, 4
to 5:30 p.m., 800 Exchange St.,
Room 430.
Warrenton City Commission,
5:30 p.m., work session on cap-
ital improvement projects, City
Hall, 225 S. Main Ave.
Seaside School District, 6
p.m., 1810 S. Franklin, Seaside.
Shoreline Sanitary District
Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart Hertig
Station, 33496 West Lake Lane,
Warrenton.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
School at 6 p.m. April 27 and
Jewell School at 4 p.m. May 4.
At the roundups, students
and parents can meet kinder-
garten teachers, principals and
other staff, tour schools and re-
ceive a “Class of 2030” T -shirt.
Parents should bring their
children’s birth certifi cates and
immunization records. Staff
can help obtain copies of either.
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Walden won all 20 of his
district’s counties last Novem-
ber and did better than Trump
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The Republican measure
now in legislative limbo would
have largely repealed former
President Barack Obama’s
health care overhaul, including
its tax penalties on people who
didn’t purchase coverage and
expansion of Medicaid, which
provides coverage for the poor.
Walden stressed parts of that
statute that he would keep: its
ban on lifetime coverage limits
and a requirement that insurers
cover even the most ill, costly
consumers.
“We’re going to protect
people like you,” he told Kim
Schmith, 50, of Madras, who
described her costly battle
Local educators are hold-
ing kindergarten roundups later
this month to meet the incom-
ing C lass of 2030 in advance of
next school year.
Parents and guardians of
children turning 5 years old
before Sept. 1 need to attend
the roundups to register and
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45/58
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45/63
Portland
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Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 6:24 a.m.
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Repeal Obamacare
in all but one, so he may have
little reason to worry. But
clearly, there’s a big constit-
uency for Obama’s law in
Oregon.
Nearly one-fourth of Ore-
gon’s 4 million residents are
on Medicaid, well above the
national 20 percent average.
That includes about 380,000
in the expanded Medicaid pro-
gram Obama created to cover
people earning modestly above
the federal poverty level, an
expansion that the GOP bill
would phase out.
Walden notes that Oregon
faces an $882 million Medic-
aid shortfall this year, partly
because federal payments
under Obama’s statute are
declining.
About 130,000 other Ore-
gonians have bought poli-
cies on the online insurance
exchange Obama established,
with most getting federal sub-
sidies. Overall, state fi gures
show the proportion of unin-
sured Oregonians dropped
from 17 percent before the
law’s full 2014 implementa-
tion to 5 percent currently.
Walden’s district, which
encompasses over two-thirds
of Oregon and is larger than 23
states, has taken full advantage
of the law. With much of the
district poorer than Oregon’s
coastal region, 240,000 of its
residents receive Medicaid.
In six of its 20 counties, more
than 3 in 10 are benefi ciaries.
Associated Press writer
Andrew Selsky in Bend con-
tributed to this report.
Educators rounding up kindergartners
FRIDAY
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Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
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Normal high/low ........................... 56°/41°
Record high ............................ 80° in 1947
Record low ............................. 32° in 1982
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THURSDAY
these — will help determine
their success.
against breast cancer and said,
“I am no longer uninsurable,
and I want be insured.”
Walden said Republicans
want to improve competition at
a time when insurers are fl ee-
ing many insurance markets.
He said that as the GOP tries
to revive its bill, he believes
its tax credits will be increased
for poor people. Those pro-
posed subsidies have drawn
opposition from all sides as too
skimpy for low earners.
Walden’s role as a helms-
man of the GOP drive to repeal
Obama’s law puts him in an
odd political situation back
home.
As a state legislator in the
1990s, he promoted health care
innovations such as rating the
cost and effectiveness of med-
ical procedures that are cred-
ited with saving Oregon huge
sums of money. Now in Con-
gress, he represents a Demo-
cratic-run state that’s embraced
Obama’s overhaul and adopted
its expansion of Medicaid.
“The Republican health
care proposal is a disservice to
Oregonians and their access to
health care,” Brown, the gov-
ernor, said in an interview. A
one-time colleague of Walden
in the Legislature, she said the
GOP bill runs “counter to Ore-
gon values.” She predicted
“political consequences” for
Republicans.
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