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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2019
Congressional delegation
reacts to the Mueller report
By MEERAH POWELL
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Members of Oregon’s
congressional
delegation
reacted to Special Counsel
Robert Mueller’s investiga-
tive report on Russia’s inter-
ference in the 2016 election .
Statements fell along
party lines.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merk-
ley called Attorney Gen-
eral William Barr’s actions
in Thursday morning’s
press conference, and in
the weeks leading up to the
report’s release, “inappro-
priate and an abuse of his
offi ce.”
“The a ttorney g eneral is
supposed to act as the peo-
ple’s lawyer, not the p resi-
dent’s PR lackey,” Merkley,
a Democrat, said. “It’s clear
that Barr took President
(Donald) Trump’s admoni-
tion to his predecessor that
‘You were supposed to pro-
tect me’ as a job description,
and this creates an incredi-
bly dangerous precedent for
the future.”
In regard to the Muel-
ler report itself, Merkley
said he and his staff are still
making their way through it.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Construction work continues on a bridge at the waterfront in Astoria.
Waterfront bridge project delayed
Work will continue through June
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Work to replace Asto-
ria’s waterfront bridges
will continue through June.
Legacy Contracting Inc.
has submitted an updated
work schedule to the Ore-
gon Department of Trans-
portation, according to
the city. The contractor
now expects work on the
Seventh and Ninth s treet
bridges to continue into
June. Work on the 11th
Street bridge likely will not
wrap until late June.
Construction was orig-
inally set to be completed
before the end of May.
The city received fund-
ing from the state to replace
six short bridges at the bases
of Sixth Street through 11th
Street that connect the road
ends to over water piers .
The waterfront bridges
were in need of repairs to
keep them open.
The state is managing
the project and awarded
a construction contract to
Legacy last year. The con-
tractor began to tackle the
fi rst of the three bridges
— at the bases of Sev-
enth, Ninth and 11th s treets
— last October. Work will
pause for the summer and
resume on the Sixth, Eighth
and 10th s treet bridges in
October.
Businesses
have
remained open during con-
struction, but those clus-
tered at the end of 11th
Street and out on the
11th Street Pier — as
well as Buoy Beer near
Seventh Street — have
felt the effects of the
project.
Some restaurants have
seen a major drop in cus-
tomers, especially a decline
in the usual foot traffi c
they would see from the
Astoria Riverwalk. They
were looking forward to
when the work, the fencing
and the machinery would
fi nally go away.
Construction has also
kept the Astoria River-
front Trolley from running
its full route. For s pring
b reak, the trolley ran an
abbreviated course, only
able to go as far as Sixth
Street.
SALEM — The Ore-
gon Ethics Commission
has unanimously accepted
a settlement agreement
with former fi rst lady Cyl-
via Hayes.
The commission agreed
today to let Hayes pay a
fi ne of $50,000 after she
was accused of committing
22 violations of state eth-
ics laws. Hayes has fi led
for bankruptcy and isn’t
expected to pay the full
amount.
Hayes personally apol-
ogized to the committee,
saying she “blurred the
line” between her role as
a fi rst lady and her posi-
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
tion as an unpaid policy
adviser to former Gov. John
Kitzhaber, her fi ancé.
Commissioners
had
previously rejected a set-
tlement,
saying
they
were offended Hayes
didn’t appear in person to
apologize.
Kitzhaber resigned in
2015.
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OREGON
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WASHINGTON
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Thursday’s Match 4: 07-12-15-20
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Dozens of people, includ-
ing leader Ammon Bundy,
occupied the remote Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
from Jan. 2, 2016, to Feb. 11,
2016, to protest federal con-
trol of Western lands and the
imprisonment of two Oregon
ranchers convicted of setting
fi res on federal land.
Members of the group
were allowed to come and go
for several weeks as author-
ities tried to avoid blood-
shed seen in past standoffs
at Waco, Texas, and Ruby
Ridge, Idaho. But authori-
ties moved in Jan. 26 when
key standoff leaders left for a
community meeting, pulling
over two vehicles and arrest-
ing the occupiers inside.
Standoff spokesman Robert
“Lavoy” Finicum was shot
and killed by Oregon State
Police.
Most occupiers left the
refuge after Finicum’s death,
though four holdouts stayed
an additional 16 days.
Federal prosecutors tried
to convict occupation lead-
ers Ammon and Ryan Bundy
and fi ve others in a 2016 trial,
but jurors acquitted them
of charges of conspiring to
impede federal workers from
their jobs.
Tuesday, April 23
KENYON, Karen Rai — Remembrance of life service at 2 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church,
1545 Franklin Ave. Reception follows in the Fellowship Hall.
Ontario
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A small-town sheriff who
gained national attention
for his leadership during a
41-day standoff with armed
occupiers at a wildlife ref-
uge in Oregon is resigning,
citing chronic underfunding
for his department and con-
cerns about liability caused
by an outdated and under-
staffed jail.
Harney County Sheriff
Dave Ward announced his
decision to resign on Dec.
31 in an opinion piece pub-
lished Wednesday in the
Burns Times-Herald. He said
he was not willing to con-
tinue operating a jail “that is
not funded to meet the min-
imum standards required” or
to stand by while more staff-
ers are laid off.
Ward was sheriff in 2016
when armed protesters angry
about federal control of West-
ern lands overtook the Mal-
heur National Wildlife Ref-
uge in the remote county and
stayed there for weeks. Ward
became the face of local gov-
ernment authority.
In the letter, Ward says
Harney County faces a seri-
ous budget shortfall because
of an accounting error —
a defi cit that he says has
worsened the already woe-
ful funding for the sheriff’s
department.
County workers already
work 10 unpaid hours on fur-
lough each month, he said,
and the only way to address
budget cuts to the sheriff’s
department would be layoffs.
The defi cit in the general
fund is more than $800,000
in the next fi scal year, accord-
ing to county budget docu-
ments cited by Oregon Pub-
lic Broadcasting.
“I am no longer willing
to accept the civil liability
associated with the failure to
appropriately fund/staff our
jail, search and rescue, or law
enforcement services to our
community. These are not
frivolous expenditures; they
are duties and responsibili-
ties of the sheriff, mandated
by law,” he wrote.
The jail staffi ng levels
in the county fall below the
minimum requirements in
Oregon, and the facility is
severely outdated, with no
hope of making repairs, he
added. Harney County Trea-
surer Bobbi Jo Heany didn’t
immediately return a call or
email seeking comment.
MEMORIAL
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UNDER THE SKY
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Sunset tonight ........................... 8:08 p.m.
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
in a post on Twitter, said,
“AG Barr proved beyond a
doubt he is here to defend
Trump at all costs, facts be
damned . This kind of spin
is unworthy of an a ttorney
g eneral.”
The Oregon Democrat
also called for Congress to
be able to view the investi-
gative report, unredacted.
“(T)he materials must
be provided to Congress so
that members and staff can
review them and provide a
check on the abuse of the
redaction process,” Wyden
said. “No one should have
to trust (Barr’s) word when
it comes to the special coun-
sel’s report.”
U.S. Rep. Earl Blume-
nauer, a Democrat, also took
to social media to share his
thoughts .
“The Mueller report
points out that it is the job
of Congress, not AG Barr or
Trump, to conduct an inves-
tigation and determine if the
president obstructed jus-
tice,” Blumenauer tweeted.
“Anything less than that is
an affront to our democracy
and our oath to uphold the
Constitution.”
Oregon sheriff known for
standoff to resign over funds
Former Oregon fi rst lady settles ethics case
Associated Press
“It’s already clear that it
paints a very detailed and
disturbing portrait of a pres-
ident utterly obsessed with
executing a massive cov-
er-up and preventing the
truth from coming out,” he
said. “As Robert Mueller
noted, there are many unan-
swered questions here that
Congress can and should
look into.”
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden,
an Oregon Republican ,
asserted in a statement that
the report “confi rms what
we already knew from
Attorney General Barr’s
summary: President Trump
and his campaign did not
collude with the Russian
government.”
“I supported making sure
Mr. Mueller had the unfet-
tered ability and resources
to conduct a thorough inves-
tigation, which he did. I
supported releasing as much
of the report as allowed by
law, which the attorney gen-
eral has done,” Walden said.
“Now, it’s time for the par-
tisans to move on and for
Congress to get to work
on issues such as border
security and immigration
reform.”
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