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Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Walker wins Oregon GOP straw poll BRIEFLY Judge orders harder look at ecological forestry project By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group GRANTS PASS (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has told federal forest managers to take a harder look at the environmental harms that may be caused by a new “ecological restoration” forestry project planned in northern spotted owl habitat. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled Monday in Eugene that the environmental analysis the U.S. Bureau of Land Management did on the planned White Castle timber sale outside Roseburg, Oregon, was inadequate, and ordered a more stringent environmental impact statement. She found the BLM didn’t consider how logging mature forest areas would harm the spotted owl, a threatened species. The timber sale was part of a series of pilot projects ordered by the Obama administration to demonstrate so-called “ecological restoration” forestry as a way to both provide logs for local mills and improve forest health. SEASIDE — About 300 people joined together to delib- erate the future of the Oregon Republican Party at the 51st annual Dorchester Conference, which featured speeches from state politicians, a 2016 pres- idential candidate straw poll and group discussions on sev- eral timely issues. The conference convened Friday night at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center and lasted through Sunday. The main event was Sun- day’s presidential straw vote, a conference tradition where attendees selected who tops their candidate list to run for the Republican Party in the 2016 presidential election. The winner of the 2015 Dorchester straw poll was Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker with 39 votes. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was the runner-up with 22 votes. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was third. Other candidates mentioned were New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; Ohio Gov. John Ka- sich; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul; former Alaska Gov. Sarah Pal- in; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal; Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren; and a Justice Department takes issue with Amanda Marshall’s lawyer KATHERINE LACAZE — EO Media Group Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., Second District, was the keynote speaker for the 51st annual Dorchester Conference in Seaside, held Friday through Sunday. few others. Not all conference participants voted in the poll. A few attendees, during the open comment session before the vote, suggested Jeb Bush could be a problematic can- didate for his last name alone — he is the son of former pres- ident George H.W. Bush and the younger brother of former president George W. Bush, who both are widely unpopular with Democrats. “I feel so strongly we’re just shooting ourselves in the foot if we vote for Jeb Bush” in the Republican presidential prima- ries, said Ginny Brewster, of Happy Valley. Others felt Bush did a good job as governor of Florida and that having gubernatori- al experience is important for the president. He could likely overcome his name’s associa- tions, they said. Supporters of Walker talked of his practiced leadership, his PORTLAND (AP) — The U.S Justice 'HSDUWPHQWKDVLVVXHGLWV¿UVWVWDWHPHQWUHJDUGLQJ the departure of Oregon’s top federal prosecutor. 7KHGHSDUWPHQWZRXOGQRWFRQ¿UPLW¶V LQYHVWLJDWLQJ$PDQGD0DUVKDOOEXWFODUL¿HG that a subordinate of hers is not the focus of any investigation. Marshall’s attorney, Charese Rohny, told The Oregonian last week that an investigation is under way, and she was told by investigators that it was initiated because of the actions of a subordinate. The Justice Department said in a statement Monday that Marshall’s lawyer did not accurately represent its position. The department declined further comment. Marshall’s lawyer did not return a phone message or emails seeking comment. Marshall said Thursday she’s taking an LQGH¿QLWHOHDYHRIDEVHQFHEHFDXVHRIDKHDOWK problem. ability to win a governorship in a traditionally blue state and his marketability. Alison Bruun, president of the Dorchester board of di- rectors, said no matter who is selected, the Oregon Repub- licans must get organized, XQL¿HG DQG IXOO\ VXSSRUW WKDW candidate. She expressed the desire to once again make Or- egon a swing state that will in- duce presidential candidates to make campaign stops. Documents shed light on Jordan’s actions RI¿FHU VXEPLWWHG KLV UHVLJ- nation without explanation March 5 to Gov. Kate Brown. It becomes effective April 1. Public records shed light on Jor- dan’s actions at the time when he came under scrutiny amid news reports about his agency’s han- dling of Kitzhaber’s emails. Jordan Just weeks before the former gover- nor’s resignation, Kitzhaber’s RI¿FH DVNHG VWDWH GDWD FHQWHU employees to delete personal emails stored on state servers. The employees refused, and the emails were later subpoe- naed by the U.S. Attorney’s 2I¿FH Jordan called those state data center employees on their personal phones the week af- By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — Oregon chief RSHUDWLQJ RI¿FHU 0LFKDHO -RU- dan sought the names and con- tact information of state data center employees who refused a request to delete then-Gov. John Kitzhaber’s personal emails held on state servers, then called those employees using their personal numbers rather than their government lines. Those calls occurred at a time when news reports sug- gested some employees at the facility did not trust Jordan to push back against the adminis- tration’s request. Those emails were later leaked to Willamette WeekE\DQXQLGHQWL¿HGVRXUFH Jordan, whom Kitzhaber had named director of the De- partment of Administrative Services and chief operating ter they refused Kitzhaber’s request. Jordan initially re- quested the names of the em- ployees who handled the deletion request, then later asked for a list of their home or cell phone numbers, according to emails and other documents released by the De- partment of Admin- istrative Services. Jordan said in a recent interview he requested the em- ployees’ information because he wanted to inform them that if they were contacted as part of a state criminal investiga- tion, state funds were available to help them pay for lawyers. Jordan also said that he did not talk to the employees about their handling of a request from .LW]KDEHU¶VRI¿FHWRGHOHWHWKH emails, with one exception. Jordan said he spoke a couple times with Michael Rodgers, the acting director of the data center, and asked Rodgers to pass along a message to the other employees that “they all exercised good judgment, did the right thing.” Rodgers declined to com- ment on his conversations with Jordan and Jordan’s request for the list of employees. The Willamette Week news- paper reported Feb. 12 on the Kitzhaber administration’s re- quest that state data center em- ployees delete archived emails from the governor’s private ac- count, and the newspaper fol- ORZHGRQ)HEZLWKWKH¿UVW in a series of stories based on those emails. Both stories appeared to be based on leaked emails, and Jordan asked the Oregon State Police to investigate the leak on Feb. 18. 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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 93° in Thermal, Calif. Low -10° in Clayton Lake, Maine NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 68 76 55 66 45 79 62 48 83 61 47 41 77 65 45 68 32 49 80 79 50 87 58 83 76 79 Lo 45 51 26 28 38 52 40 21 53 29 30 24 57 42 25 52 10 32 66 62 27 58 35 61 46 62 W c s pc pc c pc c sh s c s pc c c pc pc s s pc c pc s pc pc pc pc Hi 70 66 39 46 56 68 61 29 65 50 49 38 64 72 46 70 37 47 82 73 49 71 55 77 51 76 Wed. 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