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he will be exonerated
Oregon’s top
utility regulator
withdraws for
reappointment
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Thirteen months after he
resigned the Oregon gover-
norship, John Kitzhaber is
going public again.
Kitzhaber said he will
launch a Facebook page
that he says will give him
an opportunity to talk about
public issues.
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interview after his resigna-
tion, Kitzhaber told Oregon
Public Broadcasting that he
stayed quiet for more than a
year while federal investiga-
tors probed allegations that
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But he said he hasn’t been
interviewed by federal agents
and that it’s time to get on
with his life.
“It’s been a tough year, it’s
been a painful year. I’ve obvi-
ously struggled with a feeling
that I let down people who
elected me and certainly was
not my intention,” Kitzhaber
said in an interview Thursday
afternoon in a downtown Port-
land coffee shop. “But I think
the biggest lesson for me over
the last year is that I’m just not
going to let adversity dampen
my commitment to these ideas
that have motivated me for so
long.”
Kitzhaber, who turned 69
this month, said he won’t
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the ex-governor said he is
looking for work.
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I am looking for a way to
contribute,” he said. “I’m
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to be. And as I said, I do
think that will involve some
consulting. And if you’re
going to do some consulting,
people need to know you’re
alive and well.”
Kitzhaber refused to
comment on the allegations
against Hayes and on
whether he thought she
would be exonerated. He
noted that they each have
separate defense attorneys.
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not ready to talk about the
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against him, but he did repeat-
edly say he expected to be
cleared of any wrongdoing.
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when the truth is told and the
investigation complete, I will
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In the months before
his resignation, the Oregon
Government Ethics Commis-
sion had launched an investi-
gation into the pair, as did the
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But both probes have been on
hold while the FBI and U.S.
Department of Justice inves-
tigate Kitzhaber and Hayes.
Kitzhaber said he and Hayes
are still engaged but haven’t set
a date.”We’re obviously hoping
to get past, obviously, the inves-
tigation,” he said.
The former governor said
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views about issues ranging
from health care to tax policy.
He said he was troubled by a
proposed ballot measure that
would raise Oregon corporate
taxes by $2.6 billion a year.
Kitzhaber said he agreed
the state needed more
revenue but said the union-
backed initiative failed to
reform what he regards as
a broken system of paying
for schools. And he also
said it would cause a bitter
rift between business and
organized labor that would
poison the state’s politics.
Kitzhaber offered only
brief commentary about his
successor, former Secretary
of State Kate Brown. Her
comments about Kitzhaber’s
state of mind in his last days
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contributing to pressure for
him to resign.
“I think she’s obviously
had a steep learning curve,”
he said, “and I’m certainly
not going to comment on her
job performance.”
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nationwide, were given new a purpose along
the docks of the East End Mooring Basin.
The Port of Astoria used a handful of
the nylon, tube-shaped dancers to scare
sea lions and harbor seals off the dock
Thursday morning.
It’s the latest effort by the agency to rid
its docks of hundreds — sometimes thou-
sands — of lounging, federally protected
sea lions drawn into the Columbia River to
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have attracted thousands of tourists, while
is inhumane, and a plain
violation of the court’s
order,” said La Rond Baker,
SEATTLE — Lawyers a staff attorney with the
representing
mentally American Civil Liberties
ill
defendants
waiting Union, Washington. “It
extended periods of time is an unsafe practice that
for competency services are is further evidence of this
asking a federal judge for a state’s continued disregard
restraining order to stop the of its legal obligations.”
U.S. District Judge
state of Washington from
sending these people to a Marsha Pechman issued
renovated jail instead of a a permanent injunction in
April that said the state was
psychiatric hospital.
When the state Depart- violating the constitutional
ment of Social and Health rights of its most vulnerable
Services failed to meet a citizens by forcing them
judge’s deadline to provide to wait in jails for weeks
competency services, it or months for competency
proposed a plan to send the evaluations or for treatment
defendants to the Yakima to have their competency
Competency
Restoration restored.
Pechman gave the state
Center. But lawyers for the
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late Thursday saying the lems at state psychiatric
center is inappropriate and hospitals and start providing
services within seven days
unsafe.
“The use of jails to treat of a judge’s order.
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people with mental illness
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said. The facility is not
prepared to house people
with serious mental illness,
and using it creates a
dangerous risk to people
sent there for services, the
lawyers said.
“DSHS has rushed to
implement an experimental
program without thinking
it through,” said Emily
Cooper, staff attorney for
Disability Rights Wash-
ington. “The result is that
class members will receive
inadequate care and suffer
very serious harm. DSHS
pursued this course of action
even though its own expert
found that jail-based resto-
ration was not appropriate
for Washington state.”
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lawyers for the defendants
said that center would cause
irreparable harm.
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have expressed serious
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restoration
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causing substantial damage to the Port’s
docks, losing the agency moorages and
creating a palpable animosity with the
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water while other sea lions, just one dock
over, stayed put.
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be a permanent solution, said Executive
Director Jim Knight, but they will help the
Port understand the sea lion’s behavior.
Lawyers say renovated jail no place for mentally ill
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PORTLAND
—
Oregon’s top utility regu-
lator, Susan Ackerman, has
withdrawn her application
to Gov. Kate Brown for
reappointment.
Ackerman is chair of the
Public Utility Commission,
which regulates the costs
Oregonians pay for utilities.
Her four-year term ended
earlier this month.
Ackerman
and
the
commission made headlines
last month when public
records showed her commu-
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were strained over an anti-
coal bill that Brown signed
into law last week.
A commission spokesman
said Friday that wasn’t why
Ackerman withdrew her
application. The spokesman
said Ackerman wants to take
time off on sabbatical. He
said Ackerman plans to stay
through May 20.
The governor will likely
recommend
Ackerman’s
replacement by May, which
is when the Oregon Senate
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