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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 3, 2017
Lawmakers advance special election to budget committee
Republicans
object to move
gency legislation to the bal-
lot. The referral typically gets
voted on in the next general
election, but the L egislature
has the authority to hold spe-
cial elections.
Democrats fear recent-
ly-passed legislation that cre-
ates taxes and assessments on
health care providers, insurers
and coordinated care organiza-
tions to pay for Medicaid will
get referred, and say that a Jan-
uary election date allows legis-
lators to reconvene in the Feb-
ruary short session to fi nd an
alternative for Medicaid fund-
ing should the legislation fail
at the ballot.
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The state House
rules committee on Saturday
advanced a bill that would cre-
ate a January special election
if any legislation approved this
session gets referred to voters.
About one week before the
Legislature reaches its dead-
line, a battle has developed
over the special election pro-
posal. The controversy has
highlighted uncertainty over
how the state plans to fund the
Oregon Health Plan, its ver-
sion of Medicaid.
A January election next
year is expected to set the
state back about $3 million.
The issue likely faces fur-
ther debate at its next stop, the
Joint Committee on Ways and
Means, which hammers out
the state’s two-year budget.
Oregonians can petition to
refer successful, non-emer-
Petition coming
State Rep. Julie Parrish,
R-Tualatin/West Linn, has
publicly acknowledged her
intentions to fi le a petition to
get the so-called provider tax
referred to voters.
The state is poised to raise
more than $600 million in the
next two years through the
provider tax and draw down
nearly $1.9 billion in federal
funding to help pay for the
Oregon Health Plan .
Parrish contends that
rescheduling the election less
than a month after the Christ-
mas holiday circumscribes the
public’s ability to weigh in.
Oregonians vote by mail,
but Parrish argues that sending
out voters’ pamphlets during
the holiday season, when the
mail business is typically busy
and results in delays, could
disenfranchise overseas and
military voters.
House Democrats are con-
cerned a referral could result
in a funding shortfall in Med-
icaid, which approximately 1
million Oregonians receive.
Once
petitioners
get
enough signatures for a refer-
endum, the legislation in ques-
tion goes on hold.
The provider tax bill
includes a tax on insurance
premiums, for example, which
is poised go into effect in Jan-
uary . It wouldn’t take effect if
petitioners are successful in
getting it on the ballot.
If the ballot measure refer-
ral vote were held in Novem-
ber, even if voters approved
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it, implementation would be
delayed by 11 months.
Personally invested
Democrats have also
charged that Parrish is per-
sonally invested in seeing the
provider tax fail at the ballot,
an issue that came up Satur-
day afternoon at a contentious
meeting of the House Com-
mittee on Rules, where the
amendment to the elections
legislation was adopted and
advanced.
A political action commit-
tee has already formed to cam-
paign for the referral, accord-
ing to s tate Rep. Dan Rayfi eld,
D-Corvallis.
Oregonians
Against
More Health Care Taxes has
received $10,000 in donations
from a single donor, according
to campaign fi nance records.
On Wednesday, Rayfi eld
charged that a “longtime busi-
ness and political partner” of
Parrish’s, Lindsey Berschauer.
had established the committee.
Parrish says that while she
and Berschauer are friends
and “work together on issues,”
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awoke to fi nd messages such
as “Go back to California”
spray-painted across the front
of their house and car.
Page told The Oregonian
they moved to Portland from
Southern California in Febru-
ary and most people have been
fantastic.
He believes the vandalism
stemmed from an incident Sat-
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ASTORIA — The Maritime
Archaeological Society plans to
resume searching for the centu-
ries-old Beeswax shipwreck.
The Oregonian reported the
wreck is named for the lumps
of beeswax that have been
found scattered along the Ore-
gon Coast for the past two cen-
turies. It is believed to be from
a Spanish ship that wrecked in
the late 1600s.
A training period will begin
in early July. A team of about a
dozen people initially will scan
the coast between Cape Falcon
and Manzanita.
Using an Astoria-based
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• At 1:28 a.m. Monday, Tucker John-
son, 19, of Astoria, was arrested by the
Clatsop County Sheriff’s Offi ce near 37th
Street and Duane Street in Astoria and
charged with driving under the infl uence
of intoxicants.
DEATH
Saturday, July 1
WHEATLEY, Roy Terrance, 88, of
Warrenton, died in Warrenton. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary in Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
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The street outside the home
is narrow, and a vehicle com-
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couldn’t get past.
The impatient driver
exchanged words with Page.
After noticing the out-of-state
license plate, he barked at
them to go back to California.
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PORTLAND — Orego-
nians have spent decades
blaming Californians for
increased traffi c and other
problems.
But rarely does the frustra-
tion go beyond words.
On Sunday, however, Pres-
ton Page and Jessica Faraday
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Special interests
Parrish shot back that Dem-
ocratic members of the com-
mittee had received money
from unions and special inter-
ests with a stake in the pro-
vider tax legislation — such as
s tate Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Port-
land, who works for the Ore-
gon Nurses Association, Par-
rish said, and has received
campaign donations from the
association.
“Collectively,”
Parrish
said, addressing the fi ve Dem-
ocrats, “You all have taken $1
million.”
The amended bill would
also create a bipartisan legisla-
tive committee to write ballot
titles; members of the major-
ity party would outnumber the
number of members from the
minority party, and the pro-
vision has been decried by
Republicans.
But that provision of the
bill has drummed up oppo-
sition from those outside the
GOP as well.
Daniel Meek, of the Ore-
gon Progressive Party, criti-
cized the proposal in written
testimony earlier this week.
“Having the Legislature
itself write the ballot titles and
explanatory statements for
measures the L egislature itself
refers to voters is like putting
the fox in charge of the hen
house,” Meek wrote.
The Capital Bureau is a
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‘Go back to California’ graffi ti
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Astoria through Sunday.
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they do not have a legal busi-
ness partnership or other
entity together. Parrish has
worked on previous politi-
cal campaigns, including the
2016 campaign for Secretary
of State Dennis Richardson, a
Republican.
Rayfi eld contended during
Saturday’s hearing that Par-
rish stood to profi t from a bal-
lot referral.
“When you come here
today, the real question I want
to ask you is, are you com-
ing here as a consultant, or are
you here as a legislator, and do
you intend to profi t off of this
referendum?” Rayfi eld asked
Parrish .
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