PRIMARY ELECTION EDITION
DailyAstorian.com // WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
145TH YEAR, NO. 227
ONE DOLLAR
Mitchell scores upset
in state House primary
Democratic primary
to replace Rep. Boone
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Brenna Visser/The Daily Astorian
State House District 32 candidate Tiffiny Mitchell talks with
campaign supporter Debbie Boothe-Schmidt as they await
election results Tuesday at McMenamins in Gearhart.
Tiffiny Mitchell, a progressive lifted by
union and conservation groups, scored an upset
victory Tuesday in the Democratic primary for
state House.
Mitchell, a state child welfare worker who
moved to Oregon three years ago from Utah, and
John Orr, an attorney, were both seen as underdogs
next to Tim Josi, a Tillamook County commis-
sioner and former state representative with more
name recognition and the backing of industry and
state legislators.
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Buehler wins
Republican nomination
for gubernatorial spot as
voters choose Hoyle as
Bureau of Labor and In-
dustries commissioner.
Page 5A
See MITCHELL, Page 5A
VOTERS APPROVE SPECIAL DISTRICT TAX LEVIES WHILE U.S. REP. BONAMICI SAILS TO VICTORY IN 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT • PAGE 7A
Wev, Roscoe in runoff
for county commission
Primary election vote totals
(As of 6 a.m. Wednesday. NOTE: Totals do not include write-in votes.)
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners
District 1
Mark Kujala
George McCartin
Andy Davis
Votes
1,282
349
282
Percent
66.7
18.2
14.7
District 3
Pamela Wev
Peter Roscoe
Doug Thompson
858
732
400
43.1
36.7
20.1
District 5
Lianne Thompson
Susana Gladwin
793
527
59.3
39.4
Votes
3,199
2,274
2,239
3,043
334
Percent
41.3
29.4
28.9
94.6
71.1
Votes
65,546
2,756
2,801
20,316
16,320
3,068
Percent
91.7
3.9
3.9
50.7
40.7
7.7
State House District 32
Tiffiny Mitchell (D)
John Orr (D)
Tim Josi (D)
Vineeta Lower (R)
Brian Halvorsen (I)
1st Congressional District
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Pamela Wev, center, reacts to early results in Tuesday’s election for county commission.
Kujala, Thompson
celebrate victories
Suzanne Bonamici (D)
Ricky Barajas (D)
Michael Stansfield (D)
John Verbeek (R)
George Griffith (R)
Preston Miller (R)
Sources: Oregon Secretary of State; Clatsop County Elections
Daily Astorian graphic
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
F
ormer Warrenton Mayor Mark
Kujala and Commissioner
Lianne Thompson overwhelm-
ingly seized victories Tuesday in
their races for the Clatsop County Board
of Commissioners, while Pamela Wev
and Peter Roscoe are set for a November
runoff.
Wev — a land use consultant — and
Roscoe — a former restaurateur — will
compete in the first commission runoff in
a decade after neither reached 50 percent
of the vote in District 3. Doug Thompson
— a property manager — finished third.
Wev received 43 percent of the vote to
Mark Kujala
Lianne Thompson
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• Election results: View results at
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Roscoe’s 37 percent and Thompson’s 20
percent, according to unofficial results.
Commissioner Lisa Clement chose
not to run for re-election in a district that
Pamela Wev
Peter Roscoe
covers parts of Astoria, Miles Crossing,
Jeffers Garden, Lewis and Clark, Youngs
River, Olney, Green Mountain and parts
of Walluski.
Wev served five years in former Port-
land Mayor Vera Katz’s administration,
while Roscoe served on the Astoria City
Council.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
See COMMISSION, Page 7A
A voter drops off a ballot in Astoria ahead of Tuesday’s
election.
New hot dog cart opens outside City Hall
Inspired by
East Coast carts
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
After retiring as a manager
of KOA, Dale Brechlin started
his first project: Building a
food cart.
Brechlin recently opened
Boomer’s All-American Cui-
sine on Duane Street across
from Astoria City Hall. He
focuses on hot dogs — in corn,
on buns and sometimes in one
of the casseroles he makes
daily. He also offers desserts
and free coffee.
“I wanted something sim-
ple,” he said, adding he was
inspired by the hot dog carts
he used to frequent on the East
Coast.
Brechlin, an East Coast
native, had worked for a credit
card company before joining
national campground chain
KOA. He managed sites at
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia,
and Mount Rushmore before
moving to the North Coast in
2011 to take over management
of the KOA near Fort Stevens
State Park.
He hopes to cook crabs
during the Astoria Sunday
Market, establish a pop-up tent
to serve food at other events
and possibly go brick-and-
mortar one day.
Brechlin is the first tenant
of Michael Bruhn, a Brim Avi-
ation helicopter mechanic who
recently acquired the down-
town property in a foreclosure
auction.
Bruhn has been planning
artist studios in the former
Flourine & Co. beauty store,
along with food carts and other
vendors in the parking lot out-
side. The lot had previously
held up to four food carts that
left when the property was in
flux.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Dale Brechlin, the former manager of the KOA near Fort
Stevens State Park, has opened Boomer’s All-American
Cuisine on Duane Street across from Astoria City Hall.