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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018
Tim Josi
Tiffiny Mitchell
John Orr
Tim Josi, a Tillamook County commission-
er and former state rep-
resentative, has raised
$71,280 in cash contribu-
tions, taken out $4,000 in
loans and received $250
in in-kind contributions
as of Thursday.
Tiffiny Mitchell, a case management
coordinator for the state
Department of Human
Services, has raised
$18,266 in cash contri-
butions and $26,442 in
in-kind contributions as
of Wednesday.
John Orr, an attorney, has raised $12,382
in cash contributions and
$1,258 in in-kind contribu-
tions as of Wednesday.
• $5,000: Orloggers PAC
• $3,000: Women’s Investment Network
Political Action Committee
• $6,211: Oregon League of Conservation
Voters PAC
• $500: Alice Apkarian, Tom Duncan,
William Van Nostran, Elizabeth Johnson,
Hashem Akhavan-Tafti, Fort George Brew-
ery & Public House
• $1,500: Bob Cary and Thomas Frazier
• $350: Charles Orr
• $1,230: Citizen Action for Political Educa-
tion, SEIU Local 503
• $300: Sue Skinner
• $3,000: Hampton Lumber, Warrenton
Fiber Co.
• $2,500: Oregon Beverage PAC, Orego-
nians for Clem, United Food and Commer-
cial Workers Union Local 555, Davis Wright
Tremaine Client PAC, West Coast Mobile
Home Parks, Inc., Aspen Meadows MHC
LLC, More Housing Now! PAC
• $2,000: Oregon Concrete & Aggregate
Producers Association PAC, Coalition for a
Healthy Oregon PAC, Oregon Food Politi-
cal Action Committee
• $1,500: Van Dusen Beverages Inc.,
Teevin Brothers Land and Timber Co., Or-
egon Council of NECA Chapters, Cascade
Pacific Pulp LLC, OR ASCA PAC
• $1,000: Kroger Co., Albertson’s Safeway,
Betsy Johnson, Leslie Johnson, Oregon
Soft Drink PAC, Robert Douglas, Friends
of Arnie Roblan, Friends of Jeff Bark-
er, Reardon for Oregon, Coalition for a
Healthy Oregon, Oregon Certified Public
Accountants Legislative Action Commit-
tee, Brad Witt for State Representative,
Doctors for Healthy Communities, SEED
PAC, AG-PAC, Oregon Neighborhood Store
Association Political Action Committee,
Bornstein Seafoods Inc., Pacific Seafood
Group Employee PAC, Boone For State
Representative, Oregon Manufactured
Housing Political Support Committee
• $500: Walter Gorman, Kate Lieber, Chip
Shields, Friends of Rob Nosse
• $1,000: Oceanic
Logistics LLC, Kathleen
Zunkel, Anne Carpenter,
Robert Adams
• $250: Future PAC House Builders,
Jerome Arnold, Edward Osborn, Ann
Gramson
• $200: Debra Bowe, Nancy Ledgerwood,
Leon Jackson, Dwight Caswell Studio
• $250: Future PAC House Builders, Mark
Whitney, Friends of Michael Dembrow,
Friends of Sheri Malstrom, Tawna San-
chez, Ken Hayes, Philip Shilts, Leah Gibbs
• $150: Diane Heintz
• $200: Debbie Holt, Nikol Aagaard, Nick
Johnson, Guillermo Romero, TBA LLC,
Cindy Witten
• $100 or less: $3,429
Forestry: Tension
between harvests
and conservation
• $400: Tom Kelly, Jeff Straub
• $270: Peter Lee
• $130: SEIU Local 503
• $103: Scott Lee
• $100: Chuck Meyer, Cheryl Johnson,
Jerome Arnold.
Vineeta Lower
• $127: Mark Gamba
Vineeta Lower, the lone Republican in the
state House race, has
raised $3,675 in cash
contributions, taken
out $100 in loans and
received $2,065 in in-
kind contributions as of
Wednesday.
• $125: Madeline Olson
• $100 or less: $4,944
• $3,000 from Barreto for HD 58
• $2,065 from Promote Oregon Leadership
PAC (682)
• $500: Weyerhaeuser, Oregon Insurance
PAC, Oregon Bankers PAC, Oregon Farm
Bureau PAC, Chris Kent
• $500 from Angie Frey
• $100 or less: $225
• $250: Joan Kelsey, Future PAC House
Builders, Lisa Naito, Leo Kuntz, Owens
Hay LLC, Robert Mushen
• $200: Mike McArthur, Mike Phil Logging
Co. Inc.
• $150: Ray and Jo Ann Naff
• $100 and less: $950
House: Campaign money flows
to Tillamook commissioner
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“We’ve known Tim for a number of
years, because we have a mill down in
Tillamook,” said Steve Zika, CEO of
Hampton Lumber. “He knows our indus-
try really well. He understands the impor-
tance of domestic manufacturing in these
rural communities.”
Bornstein Seafoods and Pacific Sea-
food Group each gave Josi $1,000.
“He is the only candidate to reach
out to Bornstein and express an interest
in the natural resources industry,” said
co-owner Andrew Bornstein.
Grocery giants Kroger, owner of Fred
Meyer, and Albertsons Safeway both
gifted Josi $1,000. Van Dusen Beverages,
owned by former Astoria Mayor Willis
Van Dusen, gave Josi $1,500, along with
$1,000 from the Soft Drink PAC and
$2,500 from the Oregon Beverage PAC
representing beer and wine distributors.
“It was just strictly a business deci-
sion, no more, no less,” Van Dusen said
of his company’s donation.
Josi has also received financial back-
ing from numerous incumbents in the
Legislature, including $1,000 each from
state Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose;
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Timber policy divides the Democratic candidates for
state House District 32.
state Sen. Arnie Roblan, D-Coos Bay;
state Rep. Jeff Barker, D-Aloha; state
Rep. Brad Witt, D-Clatskanie; and state
Rep. Jeff Reardon, D-Happy Valley. Josi
also received $1,000 from Boone’s cam-
paign committee.
Since filing at the deadline last month,
Mitchell, a case management coordina-
tor for the state Department of Human
Services, has quickly eclipsed Orr in
fundraising.
Her largest single contribution,
$3,000, came from the Women’s Invest-
ment Network Political Action Commit-
tee supporting female candidates, fol-
lowed by $1,500 each from Bob Cary of
Sunset Laboratory and Thomas Frazier, a
friend of Cary’s.
Mitchell is a member of the Service
Employees International Union. She has
received $1,230 worth of in-kind contri-
butions from the labor group and an equal
amount from the Citizen Action for Polit-
ical Education political action committee
it runs.
“She is a true progressive who shares
our union’s values,” the union’s web-
site said in an endorsement of Mitch-
ell. “Tiffiny is committed to protecting
vulnerable children, advancing wom-
en’s reproductive health, securing afford-
able housing on the coast, protecting the
rights of the LGBT community, and win-
ning fair wages for all working families.”
Mitchell’s website also lists endorse-
ments from the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employ-
ees and the Oregon Education Associa-
tion. She has been backed by several con-
servation groups, including more than
$6,000 from the Oregon League of Con-
servation Voters PAC.
Orr, an attorney, has gathered the few-
est big-ticket contributions in the race,
albeit the most from locals, including
$1,000 each from Astoria company Oce-
anic Logistics LLC, local activist Kath-
leen Zunkel and Anne Carpenter, wife
of Astoria Planning Commissioner Sean
Fitzpatrick.
Vineeta Lower, the lone Republi-
can in the House District 32 race, has
gathered more than $5,800. Indepen-
dent candidate Brian Halvorsen does not
have a campaign committee. Lower has
received $3,000 from state Rep. Greg
Barreto, R-Cove, and more than $2,000
from the Promote Oregon Leadership
PAC supporting state House Republican
candidates.
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with state forestlands. Unbe-
known to county commis-
sioners at the time, that deci-
sion also disqualified the
county from the Forest Trust
Lands Advisory Commit-
tee, which advises the state
Department of Forestry.
Josi, a Tillamook County
commissioner, supports the
lawsuit and is chairman of
both forest committees that
Clatsop County left. As of
Thursday, several of his top
campaign donors were for-
estry-related companies or
political action committees.
“It’s asked of me every
day. I get people that say,
‘I’m not going to support
you because you’re too close
to the timber industry,’” Josi
said. “Well, I’m guilty as
charged. But what I tell peo-
ple is, ‘I’m close to the peo-
ple that make a living in the
timber industry.’”
Josi argues that timber
workers make more than
double the income of ser-
vice-sector employees.
“So you take these fami-
ly-wage jobs, put these peo-
ple out of business and then
they go into the service-sec-
tor industry, and that just
drives the economy down in
Clatsop County,” Josi said.
The
environmental
impact of modern forestry
practices — including clear-
cuts and aerial spraying —
has been exaggerated, Josi
believes. Also, “You can’t
blame the timber industry
for climate change. Climate
change is because we’re
addicted to fossil fuels.”
Orr and Mitchell, on the
other hand, support the coun-
ty’s decisions on the lawsuit
and the forest committees.
Orr, while not calling
for the elimination of prac-
tices such as clearcutting
and aerial spraying, pointed
to forestry as an issue that
distinguishes him from Josi.
The lawyer has worked in
environmental law, is a proj-
ect development manager
for Trails End Recovery in
Warrenton and was presi-
dent of the North Coast Land
Conservancy from 1996 to
2002.
“I’m not getting thou-
sands and thousands and
thousands of dollars from
the timber interests or other
interests,” Orr said. “They
would trust him to represent
and protect their interests in
the Oregon State Legislature
and to have a favorable view
towards the Oregon Board
of Forestry and the Oregon
Department of Forestry.”
Orr has suggested that
biomass energy production
— as opposed to coal and
other fossil fuels — could
create family-wage jobs.
He would prioritize water
needs over timber interests
and wants a better notifica-
tion system to alert prop-
erty owners and water man-
agers ahead of aerial sprays,
he said.
“You can’t drink timber
products. You have to drink
water,” Orr said. “You’ve
gotta do the pencil out
because water comes first.”
Mitchell, a case man-
agement coordinator for the
state Department of Human
Services, favors more
aggressive environmental
policies on timber, calling
for the elimination of clear-
cuts and aerial spraying and
increasing growth cycles of
trees before harvesting them.
She has been endorsed by
the Oregon Sierra Club and
the Oregon League of Con-
servation Voters.
“What recent policies
entail are maximizing prof-
its before taking care of the
environment,” Mitchell said.
“I think Oregon needs to
look at other ways of man-
aging forests.”
Training: Firefighters convene in Astoria
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“Not gonna die today,”
Bostron yelled. “Not today,”
Schmitt replied.
Up next were drills teach-
ing them how to escape from
precarious situations without
help from anyone else. Day
Two involved rescuing each
other one-on-one. They trained
as specialized rescue teams on
Day Three.
“If something happens,
the best bet is you’re going
to figure your own way out,”
Schmitt said. “The second is
your buddies are going to help
you out.”
Tanks attached to their
backs, the firefighters spent
much of Friday fitting through
small holes in a wall, lower-
ing themselves with ropes and
pulling themselves in kneel-
ing positions 80 feet across the
ground with oxygen turned off.
In one drill, firefight-
ers crawled though a narrow,
8-foot-long drywall enclosing.
A collection of wires attached
to parts of the walls impeded
their efforts before they finally
needed to punch a hole and
escape at the end.
One claustrophobic student
told instructors toward the
beginning of the obstacle that
he wanted to quit. Dismissing
that option, instructors guided
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Bergerson Construction is moving to Hyak Maritime’s
boat fabrication and repair facility at North Tongue Point.
Port: Longtime tenant
Bergerson moves offices
Continued from Page 1A
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Firefighters taking part in a training exercise prepare to enter an obstacle.
him through, telling him to
think of a “happy place” such
as a beach.
Myers called the drill the
hardest of the weekend.
“It really pushes your body
to the limit, not just physically
but mentally,” he said.
As he returns to the Hood-
land area, Myers plans to relay
as much of the training as he
can to future recruits, he said.
“There are so many ‘aha’
moments in the class,” Myers
said. “It just makes sense.”
Schmitt, who has been an
instructor about four years,
knew Carpenter personally. He
said Carpenter regularly took
part in training and recalled
grabbing beers with him soon
before his death in 2002.
In addition to the training
— with the class motto, “Kill
the reaper” — Schmitt also
helps plan firefighter funerals.
“They really coincide with
each other,” Schmitt said.
“The more I train, the fewer
funerals I have to plan.”
cial fishing vessels in part-
nership with WCT Marine &
Construction, the site’s sole
shipwright.
“I believe over the next
few years, we’ll be able to
realize many synergies,”
Morrill said of Bergerson’s
fit at North Tongue Point.
Astoria is taking another
look at whether to include
North Tongue Point as an
enterprise zone, a state des-
ignation that would exempt
property taxes on new devel-
opment for three to five years.
The Port has also applied
to make the area part of an
opportunity zone, a federal
designation that would allow
investors to lower taxes from
capital gains invested in the
area.
Port Commissioner Bill
Hunsinger, who opposed
abandoning
the
North
Tongue Point lease, on Tues-
day took aim at Bergerson’s
move as proof the agency
made a mistake in leaving.
“I told you guys in the
meeting when you get rid of
that lease up there, you’re
in direct competition with
them,” Hunsinger said of
Hyak.
