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C HALLENGING P EOPLE TO S HAPE A B ETTER F UTURE N OW
Primary elections see
surprises, outright wins
By Lisa Loving
Of The Skanner News
O
ne of the most competitive primary
ballots in years has ended in an elec-
tion night of historic low turnout in
Multnomah County and across the state of
Oregon.
In unofficial returns, on the local level in
the city of Portland, million-dollar mayoral
candidate Eileen Brady was trounced in
double-digit losses to Charlie Hales and Jef-
ferson Smith, who spent about half as much
on their campaigns and who now advance to
the Nov. 6 General Election.
State campaign finance records show that
Brady loaned her campaign $125,000 last
week; in total, as of May 16, the state’s
ORESTAR computerized reporting system
shows Brady received $817,538.28 in total
contributions, but spent $908,879.08 and
ended the campaign with $250,000 in total
outstanding loans. Altogether, Brady’s cam-
paign has a deficit of $213,235.78.
Jefferson Smith’s campaign, according to
ORESTAR, took in $414,682.22 in total
contributions but is now looking at a
$91,367 deficit
Charlie Hales took in $531,952.11 and
ended with a $68,537.56 deficit.
In the sometimes-bitter race for Portland
City Commissioner Position #1, incumbent
Amanda Fritz – the only candidate current-
ly holding office elected through publicly-
funded elections, which have since been
discontinued — had pulled ahead of chal-
lenger Mary Nolan by 90 votes as of noon
on Wednesday; no matter which of the two
emerges with the most votes they will both
be heading to a runoff.
The Multnomah County Library Bond
Levy sailed to passage with almost 84 per-
cent “yes” votes, while the “housekeeping”
changes to the City of Portland charter all
passed as well.
In East County, David Douglas High
School’s $49.5 million bond measure was
CHARLIE
HALES
Charlie Hales and his wife, Nancy, at
the Portland student protest rally in
downtown Portland last Friday. Hales,
a candidate for Portland mayor,
bested all comers in the field of 23
and now heads to the November
runoff vote against challenger
Jefferson Smith.
PHOTO BY LISA LOVING
Low
Voter
Turnout
Kitzhaber Criminal Justice Reform
Poll supports expanding treatment and community supervision
By Helen Silvis
Of The Skanner News
G
has
Kitzhaber
ov.
Oregon’s
expanded
Commission on Public
Safety so it can take a deeper
look at how to reduce costs in
the Criminal Justice system,
while at the same time improv-
ing public safety.
“With Oregon’s biennial cor-
rections budget now exceeding
$1.4 billion, we can no longer
delay improvements to our cor-
rections system here in Ore-
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gon,” said Governor Kitzhaber.
“It’s time for us to re-examine
which policies are working and
fix those that are not providing a
clear benefit to our public safe-
ty.”
Kitzhaber signed an executive
order, Monday, May 14,
expanding the commission from
seven to 12 members. The five
new members are: a District
Attorney; a Criminal Defense
Attorney, a law enforcement
representative chosen by sher-
iffs and chiefs of police; a com-
corrections
munity
representative and a senior
judge.
“The state is on an unsustain-
able path of corrections growth
that will limit funding available
for proven crime-prevention,
reformation and re-entry strate-
gies,” the order says.
Crime in Oregon is at a 30-
year low, but a new opinion poll
released today by the PEW Cen-
ter shows that more than two-
thirds of Oregonians don’t know
this. The study showed 40 per-
cent of voters think crime has
increased and 28 percent think
it’s about the same. Only 19 per-
cent of voters knew the correct
answer – that both violent and
property crimes have been drop-
ping for decades.
The Skanner News reported
the mismatch between reality
and public perception last year.
The commission will now
work with the Justice Reinvest-
ment Initiative in the U.S.
Department of Justice, and the
Pew Center on the States’ Public
Safety Performance Project, to
bring together a wide range of
See JUSTICE on page 3
Memorial Basketball League Grows
More schools are participating in sports in honor of Walter Dines Jr.
By Helen Silvis
Of The Skanner News
B
asketball coach Paul Kelly was too
devastated to remember much about
the homegoing ceremony for Walter
Dines Jr.
Kelly’s godson, the son of his best friend,
died in June 2010 at just 18 years old, in a
tragic drowning accident on the Clackamas
River.
What Kelly does remember is the rainbow
that lit up the sky that day.
Fast forward two years and Kelly is
coaching the Walter Dines Memorial Bas-
ketball League. Set up by Kelly and Walter
Dines Sr., the league offers teens the oppor-
tunity to play and compete at a high level.
Many of them would otherwise be shut out
of high school sports. On the first day of the
second season, Kelly brought his players
together to explain how the league started.
“As I’m speaking I look out the window
and I see a rainbow,” Kelly says. “I thought,
‘I just know you are here.’ And it gave me
the greatest satisfaction to feel that he was
looking down and approving of what we
were doing to honor him.”
See MEMORIAL on page 3