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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Gov. Brown announces
re-election bid for 2018
Sets contrasts
with Trump
Invalidated ban
in Josephine
County case
ity. The governor has raised
campaign funds in excess of
$1.1 million since January in
preparation for a showdown
with orthopedic surgeon and
state Rep. Knute Buehler, a
Republican who announced
his candidacy last month.
Brown on Monday touted
legislative accomplishments
under her administration,
including a $5.3 billion trans-
portation package and expan-
sion of the Oregon Health Plan,
the state’s Medicaid program,
to undocumented children. She
also highlighted passage of the
Oregon Promise, which allows
Oregon high-school graduates
to attend college for as little as
$50 a semester, an increase in
the minimum wage, and a pro-
gram to phase out the use of
coal.
Buehler, who has raised
$1.2 million, has criticized
Brown for failing to address
major problems in the state,
such as the low high school
graduation rate, and tax and
spending reform.
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Just a year
after winning election, Gov.
Kate Brown announced early
Monday that she would seek
a fi nal term in offi ce in 2018.
In a video blasted across
social media, the longtime
Democratic politician con-
trasted her administration
to that of President Donald
Trump, while never mention-
ing the Republican by name.
“As your governor, it’s
my job to make things better
and stand up to anyone who
would take our rights away,”
Brown said.
A former Oregon secre-
tary of state, Brown ascended
to the governorship in Febru-
ary 2015, when former Gov.
John Kitzhaber stepped down
amid an infl uence-peddling
scandal. Oregon’s unusual
Oregon Court of Appeals affi rms
ruling overturning GMO ban
Gov. Kate Brown
line of succession made
Brown the fi rst openly bisex-
ual governor in the nation’s
history and Oregon’s second
female chief executive. The
state has no lieutenant gover-
nor, so the secretary of state is
fi rst in line after the governor.
In November 2016, Brown
was elected to complete the
last two years of Kitzhaber’s
four-year term. She defeated a
Republican challenge by Salem
oncologist Bud Pierce, who
was a newcomer to politics.
But those two years
counted as her fi rst term, and
in Oregon, governors are lim-
ited to two consecutive terms
in offi ce.
Brown’s announcement
Monday was merely a formal-
By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
EO Media Group
The Oregon Court of
Appeals has affi rmed that a
prohibition against genetically
engineered crops in Josephine
County is pre-empted by state
law.
Voters in Josephine County
approved the ban in 2014,
nearly a year after state law-
makers passed a bill barring
local governments from reg-
ulating genetically modifi ed
organisms, or GMOs.
Farmers Robert and Shel-
ley Ann White, who wanted to
plant biotech sugar beets, con-
vinced Josephine County Cir-
cuit Judge Pat Wolke that the
local GMO ban was unlawful
in 2016.
Oregonians for Safe Farms
and Families, a nonprofi t, and
Siskiyou Seeds, an organic
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
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WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
81
54
53
Clear
Mostly sunny
ALMANAC
Full
A brief afternoon shower
or two; cooler
63
49
Salem
53/86
Newport
50/75
Coos Bay
53/81
New
Oct 12
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
12:48 a.m.
12:44 p.m.
Low
0.9 ft.
3.1 ft.
Ontario
43/75
Burns
33/72
Klamath Falls
41/76
Lakeview
39/72
Ashland
51/85
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City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
71
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Vancouver
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
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Tonight's Sky: Lyra the harp is best known for the
brilliant star Vega, which stands high overhead at
nightfall.
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41/76
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57/75
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51/88
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Lebanon
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ON THE RECORD
DUII
• At 10:34 p.m. Friday,
Richard Raterman, 49, of
Warrenton, was arrested by
the Warrenton Police Depart-
ment at Oregon Highway
104 and Biwater Lane and
charged with driving under
the infl uence of intoxicants.
His blood alcohol content
was 0.17 percent.
• At 1:57 a.m. Mon-
day, Sue Ann Stuck, 39, of
Astoria, was arrested by
the Astoria Police Depart-
ment on West Marine Drive
just east of the R oundabout
and charged with DUII. Her
blood alcohol content was
0.20 percent.
• At 12:08 a.m. Tuesday,
Lynnie Charlene Taylor, 52,
of Seaside, was arrested by
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Offi ce at 12th Avenue and
Wahanna Road in Seaside
and charged with DUII.
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Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:09 a.m.
Moonrise today .......................... 1:32 p.m.
Moonset today ......................... 11:04 p.m.
Time
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SUN AND MOON
Sep 27
75
53
The state Legislature passed
the pre-emption bill to avoid a
county-by-county patchwork
of restrictions for genetically
engineered crops, said Scott
Dahlman, policy director for
Oregonians for Food and Shel-
ter, an agribusiness group that
opposed the GMO ban.
“We think the L egislature
has spoken very clearly on
this issue,” he said. “Farmers
should be allowed to choose
what crops they grow.”
Repeated attempts to over-
turn the pre-emption law have
been made since it was orig-
inally enacted in 2013, but
none have gained much trac-
tion, Dahlman said.
Because the Court of
Appeals affi rmed Wolke’s rul-
ing without opinion, the ruling
doesn’t set a binding precedent
that other courts must follow,
said John DiLorenzo, attorney
for the Whites.
However, the decision is
likely to be “persuasive” if the
pre-emption issue should arise
in other counties, since exist-
ing case law would support the
same outcome, DiLorenzo said.
OBITUARIES
SATURDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 65°/56°
Normal high/low ........................... 66°/48°
Record high ............................ 81° in 1899
Record low ............................. 38° in 1972
Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.10"
Month to date ................................... 2.68"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.66"
Year to date .................................... 52.74"
Normal year to date ........................ 39.76"
First
FRIDAY
farm, intervened in that case
as defendants, allowing them
to challenge Wolke’s decision
before the Court of Appeals.
The appeals court has now
upheld the ruling without com-
ment, but GMO critics vow to
continue the battle in the legis-
lative arena.
“We’re still fi rm in our
resolve to protect farmers in
Josephine County,” said Mary
Middleton, executive director
of Oregonians for Safe Farms
and Families. “We’re not giv-
ing up, we’re not giving in.”
Middleton said her organi-
zation has decided not to pur-
sue further litigation but will
instead focus on persuading
lawmakers to invalidate the
pre-emption statute or other-
wise allow Josephine County’s
ordinance to be enforced.
“The will of the people is
being ignored,” she said.
When passing the GMO
pre-emption bill, lawmakers
vowed to create a statewide
system for overseeing GMOs,
but instead they have left a
“regulatory void,” Middleton
said.
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