MAY 16, 2018
Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 33
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CENTS
News .............................. 3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Immigration Crackdown 8
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
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CITY AUDITOR - ARCHIVES & RECORDS MGMT -
AUDITOR’S HISTORICAL RECORDS
FACE-OFF
Ninie Mae Locke dressed for work in the shipyards.
Portland
Library
Presents a
Historical
Portrait of
Black Life
The Skanner News
T
his month, the North Portland
Library is launching “Our Sto-
ry: Portland Through an African
American Lens” — its new online
collection that features images, docu-
ments and interviews with the Black
See LIBRARY on page 3
Former state legislator and veteran activist Jo Ann Hardesty (left) and Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith were the top contenders in a race
for Portland City Council, with results close enough that the two will run against each other this November.
Hardesty, Smith to Face Off in November
Winning candidate will be the first African American woman to serve on
Portland’s governing commission in the history of the city
The Skanner News Staff
and Wire Reports
T
AP PHOTO/SETH WENIG
his fall Portland vot-
ers will elect the first
Black woman to city
council — an historic
Dennis Drazin, CEO of Darby Development,
operators of Monmouth Park, speaks to reporters
at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, N.J.,
May 14. The Supreme Court on Monday gave its
go-ahead for states to allow gambling on sports
across the nation. Monmouth Park has already set
up a sports book operation.
All Sports
Betting is page
On 9
BOOK REVIEW: “A
Perilous Path: Talking
Race, Inequality and
page 6
the Law”
first.
Veteran activist Jo Ann
Hardesty got 42 percent
of the vote in this spring’s
primary, and Multnomah
County Commissioner Lo-
retta Smith got 22.5 per-
cent — a close enough race
to qualify the two candi-
dates for a runoff race in
the fall.
Susheela Jayapal, a candi-
date for Multnomah Coun-
ty Commissioner District
2, running for Smith’s va-
cated seat, also claimed an
historic victory Tuesday
as the first south Asian to
be elected in the state of
Oregon.
This week also saw an up-
set in the 24th district race
for state senator, with for-
mer state representative
Shemia Fagan unseating
incumbent Rod Monroe in
a race dominated by debate
about the future of hous-
ing and renters’ rights in
Oregon.
The Skanner News staff
compiled the following
results from government
and wire sources, which
were up-to-date as of
Wednesday morning. For
a full list of statewide elec-
tion results, visit http://
results.oregonvotes.gov/;
for Multnomah County re-
sults, visit https://multco.
us/file/72536/download.
City of Portland
Commissioner, Position 3
Jo Ann A Hardesty –
34,507 — 42.17 percent
Loretta Smith – 18,382 —
22.47 percent
Andrea Valderrama –
8,736 — 10.68 percent
Felicia Williams – 10,028 -
12.26 percent
Stuart Emmons – 8,446 —
10.32 percent
Lew Humble – 1,458 - 1.78
percent
Write-in — 266 - 0.33
percent
Metro Council President
Lynn Peterson – 72,098 —
83.72 percent
Michael P Langley – 13,559
— 15.74 percent
See ELECTION on page 3
Organizers Raise More Than $21,000 for Bailout Campaign
Bailouts will continue as funds are released
The Skanner News
L
ast week’s fundraising campaign
to bail Black mothers out of jail
raised $21,813 before it closed in
time for the weekend.
Gina Spencer, who organized the
fundraiser, said she was able to get
one woman released from the Mult-
nomah County Jail, but encountered
difficulties at Washington County,
where she was told the person she
intended to bail out had a warrant in
another state.
According to Deputy Jeff
Talbot, the public informa-
tion officer for the Washing-
ton County Sheriff ’s Office,
the county runs warrant
checks for inmates at the
time they are incarcerated
and at the time they are re-
leased. In this case, the wom-
an Spencer attempted to bail
out did not have any out-
standing warrants in the ini-
See BAILOUTS on page 3
PHOTO BY M.O. STEVENS (CC BY 3.0) VIA
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
‘Our Story’ is the North
Portland Library’s
new digital gallery
Organizers of a bailout for Black mothers raised $21,000
and were able to bail one woman out of jail for the weekend,
but encountered difficulties in Washington County.