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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018
Brown, Buehler take liberty with the truth in late ad pushes
Final days
before the
election
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
The top two candidates for
Oregon governor are releasing
multiple television and social
media ads in the final days of
the campaign. Some make mis-
leading and sometimes inaccu-
rate claims.
Gov. Kate Brown, the
Democratic incumbent, and
state Rep. Knute Buehler, her
Republican challenger, are fun-
neling millions into advertising
in the most expensive gover-
nor’s race in state history.
“What we are seeing now is
the candidates trying to define
who their opponent is,” said
Jim Moore, director of the Tom
McCall Center for Policy Inno-
vation at Pacific University. “It
is not so much lying, but the
context is completely wrong.”
Brown,
for
instance,
released an ad that ties Bue-
hler to Donald Trump, flash-
ing images of the president and
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Brett Kavanaugh.
But last year, Buehler dis-
closed in a Facebook post
that he didn’t vote for Trump.
Instead, he wrote in Ohio Gov.
John Kasich for president.
Buehler has repeatedly crit-
icized Trump’s policies and
conduct in other interviews and
on social media. He also called
on Trump to withdraw Kava-
naugh’s nomination as the U.S.
Senate confirmation hearing
unfolded.
“With nothing positive to
say about her own record or her
vision for Oregon, Kate Brown
has completely overplayed
her hand with a ridiculous
and 100 percent false attack
against Knute Buehler compar-
ing Knute to Donald Trump,”
wrote Jordan Conger, Bue-
hler’s campaign policy director,
in an email. “There are legiti-
mate issues and differences to
debate in the race for governor;
this is not one of them.”
Buehler’s campaign, mean-
while, claimed in an ad that
revenue from a new payroll tax
to fund mass transit services
— which Brown supported
— forces workers in the rest
of the state to pay for Portland
service.
“Kate Brown has always
been a politician who thinks
about Portland first and the rest
of Oregon last,” Troutdale resi-
dent Kelly Fisher says in the ad.
“Why else would Brown raise a
payroll tax on a working person
like me to pay for Portland’s
mass transit system?”
Christian Gaston, Brown’s
campaign spokesman, said the
ad on the transit tax is “com-
pletely false” and “based on a
lie.”
“This whole campaign has
been a constant barrage of mis-
information from Knute Bue-
hler and Priority Oregon (polit-
ical action committee),” Gaston
said. “It has been really diffi-
cult to push out fact checks fast
enough.”
In fact, the taxes paid by
employees in densely popu-
lated areas, such as Portland,
help pay for transit services in
sparsely populated areas such
as Gilliam and Harney coun-
ties, said Karyn Criswell, a state
transportation project manager.
About 42 jurisdictions
around the state get money
from the transit tax. Sixteen
cover areas with so few work-
ers that they get $50,000 a
year from the state as a base,
Criswell said.
Conger said the ad is accu-
rate because as a Troutdale res-
ident, Kelly’s payroll taxes go
toward TriMet, which pro-
vides transit services largely
to Portland. But TriMet maps
show service is also offered to
Troutdale.
Abortion
In ads aired recently,
Brown’s campaign stated that
Buehler wants to restrict access
to abortion.
The campaign and some
pro-choice advocates have
offered as evidence Bue-
hler’s vote against the state’s
Reproductive Equity Act in
2017. The act, among other
things, expanded reproductive
health care to undocumented
immigrants.
Buehler has said repeat-
edly he is pro-choice and
would make no changes to the
state’s abortion laws, which are
among the least restrictive in
the nation.
Education
Jonathan House/Pamplin Media Group
The campaigns of GOP nominee Rep. Knute Buehler and
incumbent Democrat Gov. Kate Brown are releasing mul-
tiple TV and social media ads as the gubernatorial cam-
paign enters its final days.
“Yes, he voted against that
act, but does that mean he is
not pro-choice? Heck, no,”
said Moore, the state politi-
cal scientist from Pacific Uni-
versity. “He is definitely pro-
choice. He just didn’t take this
further step.
“When you look at any
major Republican candidate, he
is a wild radical on choice.”
Buehler’s campaign also
takes issue with an ad by
Brown’s campaign that said
Buehler voted to “take cover-
age away from … hundreds of
thousands of Oregonians.”
The ad refers to Buehler’s
vote against a bill to enact a
mix of health care provider
taxes to temporarily fund the
Oregon Health Plan, the state’s
version of Medicaid.
The taxes hit hospitals,
insurers, the Public Employ-
ees Benefits Board and coordi-
nated health care organizations,
which are regional networks of
Oregon Health Plan providers.
Buehler did vote against
the taxes because he felt they
were “unfair and targeted small
businesses and school districts
while exempting large corpora-
tions,” Conger said.
He wanted a longer-term
solution for funding health care
and with other legislators pro-
posed legislation to do so. Their
ideas never made it to a vote.
Gaston defended Brown’s
ads as “narrowly on actions
Buehler has taken.”
“His campaign is about …
selling this image of himself
as a candidate that is different
from what he has done as a leg-
islator,” Gaston said.
In another ad, Buehler’s
campaign said that Brown “cut
career-focused education by
43 percent.”
The claim refers to vot-
er-approved Measure 98 in
2016. The ballot measure ded-
icated about $150 million
per year toward high school
career-technical education and
other programs to boost the
graduation rate.
A year later, Brown pro-
posed increasing career-tech-
nical education funding by $75
million a year — not the full
amount approved by voters.
Legislators, including Buehler,
ultimately passed a budget that
instead allocated $85 million a
year for career-technical edu-
cation funding.
Buehler voted against the
state education budget for sev-
eral reasons, including that
short funding of career educa-
tion, his campaign said.
“He thought at the time that
was the more appropriate time
to present that message, and
frankly, he wanted to make
sure some funding on Mea-
sure 98 made it through,” Con-
ger said.
Conger defended calling
the funding for Measure 98 a
cut.
“Voters recognized this as
a priority and made the fund-
ing available for it, and even
then, she proposed cutting it
in half,” Conger said. “If cut-
ting voter-approved funding
doesn’t amount to a cut, I don’t
know what will.”
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
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48
Mainly cloudy with a
passing shower
Rain
Mostly cloudy
Man arrested after allegedly
trashing Performing Arts Center
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
ALMANAC
REGIONAL WEATHER
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ASTORIA
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Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 55°/47°
Normal high/low ........................... 59°/43°
Record high ............................ 79° in 1937
Record low ............................. 34° in 1961
Tillamook
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Salem
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Newport
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Sunset tonight ........................... 6:16 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:45 a.m.
Moonrise today .......................... 6:20 p.m.
Moonset today ............................ 6:21 a.m.
Oct 24
New
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Coos Bay
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First
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TOMORROW'S TIDES
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Assault
• At 12:57 a.m. Sunday, Brandon John Wing, 33, of Astoria, was arrested by Astoria police on
Lief Erikson Drive and 35th Street and charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants. His
blood alcohol content was 0.19 percent.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Clatsop County Human Services Advisory
Council, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Room 430, 800 Exchange
St.
Clatsop Care Health District Board, 5 p.m., spe-
cial session, Clatsop Care Memory Community,
2219 Dolphin Ave., Warrenton.
Astoria Library Board, 5:30 p.m., Astoria Library
Flag Room, 450 10th St.
Warrenton City Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall,
225 S. Main Ave.
Astoria Planning Commission, 6:30 p.m., City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
WEDNESDAY
Astoria Parks and Recreation Board, 6:45 a.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6
p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Com-
mercial St.
Monday’s Mega Millions: 15-
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Oct. 23, 2018
JAAGUS, Asta Elisabeth, 96 of Sea-
side, died in Seaside. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
OREGON
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Over
inal mischief, second-degree
theft and second-degree crimi-
nal trespass.
Heiner allegedly did not
cooperate with officers, who
carried him to the patrol car.
Heiner has been arrested in
connection with several similar
incidents since 2015, including
at the Performing Arts Cen-
ter. Judges ordered psycholog-
ical evaluations in nearly all of
those cases.
ON THE RECORD
Burns
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Tonight's Sky: Before midnight, Aries, the Ram, is
high in the eastern night sky.
High
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Roseburg
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Brookings
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John Day
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The Dalles
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Portland
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Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 2.93"
Normal month to date ....................... 3.68"
Year to date .................................... 41.61"
Normal year to date ........................ 43.92"
Full
An Astoria man was
arrested after allegedly trash-
ing the Clatsop Community
College Performing Arts Cen-
ter on Saturday.
Just before 2 p.m., police
were notified that the main door
was open and someone might
have been inside. Sitting just out-
side the door were a fire extin-
guisher, garbage can, shelving,
papers, an exit sign and a hose.
Inside the building, a win-
dow appeared to be broken
from the inside, walls and pil-
lars were damaged in various
ways, piano and organ cov-
ers were removed and bedding
had been set up in the balcony.
Police found and arrested
Derek Heiner, 36, of Astoria, and
charged him with second-de-
gree burglary, first-degree crim-
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