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Confirmed Candidates Running for
Portland Public Schools Board
GOP Leaders Boost
Pressure as Health Bill
Crunch Time Nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Donald Trump and House leaders are
revving up pressure on balky con-
servatives and other Republican law-
makers as crunch time approaches on
the party’s health care overhaul bill, a
drive GOP leaders concede they can’t
afford to lose.
A day before the House planned votes
on the measure, Trump was expected
to continue hunting support for what
would be a significant achievement
for his young presidency. But under-
Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., a member of the conservative
Freedom Caucus, arrives for the meeting of the
Republican Conference with President Donald
Trump as he rallied support for the GOP health
care bill at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday,
March 21, 2017. Trump has been trying to persuade
reluctant members of the Freedom Caucus to get
behind the bill.
scoring the bill’s uncertain fate, a se-
nior administration official said that
20 to 25 House Republicans remained
opposed or undecided. That’s a grave
figure since united Democratic oppo-
sition means the measure crashes if 22
GOP lawmakers vote “no.”
“If we keep our promise, people will
reward us,” House Speaker Paul Ryan,
R-Wis., told reporters Tuesday of GOP
vows to demolish former President
Barack Obama’s health care law that the
GOP has assailed since its enactment in
2010. “If we don’t keep our promise, it
will be very hard to manage this,” the
speaker said.
“Honestly, a loss is not acceptable,
folks,” Trump told lawmakers at a
closed-door Capitol meeting with
House Republicans. He warned they’d
face widespread defeats in next year’s
elections and possible loss of control of
the chamber if the measure failed.
Trump’s remarks and the White
House nose count of votes were each
described by Republicans who provid-
ed inside information on condition of
anonymity.
PHOTO COURTESY OF PPS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associ-
ated Press has learned that President
Donald Trump’s former campaign
chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly
worked for a Russian billionaire to
advance the interests of Russian Pres-
ident Vladimir Putin.
Manafort wrote a 2005 strategy plan
that he said “can greatly benefit the Pu-
tin Government.” At the time, U.S.-Rus-
sia relations under Republican Pres-
ident George W. Bush were growing
worse.
Manafort’s arrangement was with
Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deri-
paska (DARE-uh-poss-kuh), a close Pu-
tin ally. Manafort signed a $10 million
annual contract beginning in 2006 and
maintained a business relationship
until at least 2009. The work was de-
scribed in interviews with people fa-
miliar with it and confidential business
records obtained by the AP.
Manafort confirmed to the AP that
he worked for Deripaska but said the
work was being unfairly cast as inap-
propriate.
AP PHOTO/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE
Manafort’s Plan to
‘Greatly Benefit the Putin
Government’
Current PPS Board, clockwise from far left: Mike Rosen, Tom Koehler (Chair), Amy Kohnstamm (Vice
Chair), Steve Buel, Julie Esparza Brown, Pam Knowles and Paul Anthony. Koehler, Buel and Knowles
will not be running for re-election.
The Skanner News
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n May 16, three out of seven seats
on the Portland Public School
board will be up for grabs. The
confirmed candidates are as fol-
lows:
ZONE 4 CANDIDATES, to replace
Steve Buel
• Rita Moore: Portland Public
Schools activist, advocate and par-
ent; former university professor;
policy analyst in the Office of Health
Analytics of the Oregon Health Au-
thority.
• Jamila Singleton Munson: Former
teacher and principal for KIPP; cur-
rent Senior Managing Director at
Teach for America; co-founder of
Community for Equity PDX.
ZONE 5 CANDIDATES, to replace
Pam Knowles
• Scott Bailey: School activist and vol-
unteer; co-founder of Community &
Parents for Public Schools; econom-
ics teacher at Clark College.
• Virginia La Forte: Served as a
school representative and member
of the Portland Public Schools Tal-
ented and Gifted Advisory Council;
current member of the Portland
Public Schools Bond Stakeholder
Advisory Group.
• Traci Flitcraft: Marketing consul-
tant at Salesforce marketing cloud.
ZONE 6 CANDIDATES, to replace
board chairman Tom Koehler
• Trisha Parks: Middle school teach-
er in Beaverton; former Beaverton
teachers’ union leader; Portland
Public Schools parent; involved in
Parent Teacher Association, com-
munity organizing and volunteer-
ing.
• Julia Brim-Edwards: Former Port-
land Public Schools board member
(2001 – 2005); Nike senior director
of global operations and public af-
fairs; co-founder of a parent group.
• Zach Babb: Principle mobile engi-
neer at moovel North America, a
transit technology company.
• Ed Bos: Executive at Cascade Pacific
Council of the Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca; staff sergeant in the Oregon Na-
tional Guard.
• Joseph L. Simonis (Josie, they/
them): Data scientist and instruc-
tor; board member of Cornell Gay
and Lesbian Alumni Association;
chair of Rose City Rollers Training
Committee.
