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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
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the departure of Oregon’s top federal prosecutor.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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the former gover-
nor’s resignation, Kitzhaber’s
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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
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Jordan called those state
data center employees on their
personal phones the week af-
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon chief
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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
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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
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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-
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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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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
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57/40
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John Day
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Ontario
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person died.
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the papers about 8:30 a.m. Monday, heard shots
inside and called for backup. Later, smoke began to
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National Summary: Warmth will hold in the South, coastal Northeast and Southwest today,
as colder air expands over the Midwest. Rain will gather over Texas with showers from the
northern High Plains to the coastal Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 93° in Thermal, Calif.
Low -10° in Clayton Lake, Maine
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