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Sanders, Trump win Oregon primaries
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
Bernie
Sanders
won
Oregon’s
presidential
primary and battled Hillary
Clinton to a neck-and-neck
outcome in Kentucky on
Tuesday, vowing to soldier
on as Clinton sought to blunt
his momentum ahead of
her likely general election
matchup against Republican
Donald Trump.
The race in Kentucky was
too close to call, but Clinton
wrote on her Twitter feed:
“We just won Kentucky!
Thanks to everyone who
turned out. We’re always
stronger united.” With almost
all the votes counted, Clinton
held a narrow lead of less
than one-half of 1 percent as
she tried to avoid ending the
primary season with a string
of losses to the Vermont
senator.
Trump won the sole GOP
contest in Oregon, where
Sanders was declared the
winner shortly after the polls
closed in the liberal-leaning
state.
Rallying supporters in
California, Sanders said he
would end up with about
half of the delegates in
Kentucky and promised to
press forward even though
he would need to win about
two-thirds of the remaining
pledged delegates to overtake
Clinton.
“Before we will have the
opportunity to defeat Donald
Trump, we’re going to have
to defeat Secretary Clinton,”
Sanders said to cheers in
Carson, California.
Clinton
holds
a
commanding lead of nearly
300 pledged delegates over
AP Photo/Don Ryan
Election workers Louise Masog, left, and John Jones
prepare ballots for counting at Multnomah County
election headquarters in Portland on Tuesday.
Sanders and a dominant
advantage among party
oficials and elected leaders
known as superdelegates.
The outcomes in Kentucky
and Oregon did not dramat-
ically change the delegate
count and the former secre-
tary of state remains on track
to clinch the nomination on
June 7 in the New Jersey
primary.
Tuesday’s elections took
place amid new questions
about party unity following
a divisive weekend state
party convention in Nevada.
Supporters of Sanders tossed
chairs and made death threats
against the Nevada party
chairwoman at the event in
Las Vegas, arguing the party
leadership rigged the results
of the convention in favor of
Clinton.
In a sign of the tensions
between the two sides,
Sanders issued a deiant state-
ment Tuesday dismissing
complaints from Nevada
Democrats as “nonsense”
and said his supporters were
not being treated with “fair-
ness and respect.”
In California, Sanders
urged the party to be
welcoming to voters who
are “prepared to ight for
real economic and social
change.” Addressing the
party’s leadership, Sanders
declared, “Open the doors,
let the people in.”
Trump won the only
Republican
contest
in
Oregon. The billionaire
businessman picked up nine
delegates earlier Tuesday in
Guam, which held its territo-
rial convention in March, and
had 1,143 delegates heading
into the Oregon contest —
fewer than 100 delegates
short of the 1,237 he needs to
clinch the nomination.
For Democrats, 55 dele-
gates were up for grabs in
Kentucky and 61 delegates
were at stake in Oregon.
Clinton and Sanders will
each pick up at least 27
delegates in Kentucky, with
one delegate remaining to be
allocated pending inal vote
tallies.
In Oregon, Sanders will
receive at least 28 delegates
and Clinton at least 24 with
the remaining delegates
awarded according to vote
tallies.
The Sanders campaign did
not immediately say whether
it will challenge the results
in Kentucky, which does not
have an automatic recount.
In Kentucky, the former
secretary of state visited
black churches, a small-town
diner and held rallies on
Sunday and Monday in an
effort to break up Sanders’
momentum after his recent
victories in Indiana and West
Virginia.
Clinton’s husband, former
President Bill Clinton, was
the last Democrat to carry the
state in a presidential election
— he won Kentucky in 1992
and 1996 — and the former
irst lady tried to emphasize
those ties in the days leading
up to the primary.
“I’m excited about the
primary but we’ve got to
turn a lot of people out,”
Clinton told a packed diner
in Paducah, Ky., on Monday.
“I’ll tell you this. I’m not
going to give up on Kentucky
in November. I want to help
to bring back the kind of
economy that worked for
everybody in the 1990s.”
Nearing the end of a
long primary slog, the two
Democratic candidates are
preparing for June 7 prima-
ries in California, New Jersey
and four other states and then
the District of Columbia
primary on June 14.
When pledged delegates
and superdelegates are
combined, Clinton is now
about 96 percent of the way
toward securing the Demo-
cratic nomination.
BRIEFLY
2 marijuana bans
remain in effect
Voters in an eastern
Oregon county have rejected
a ballot measure that
aimed to rescind a ban on
marijuana production and
sales.
With all the votes in from
Grant County, 53.5 percent
rejected the measure.
Grant County Judge Scott
Myers had said last week
that he would be more than
surprised if it passed in the
largely conservative county.
Voters in Klamath
County, in the south, faced
a similar ballot measure.
There, with 60 percent of
the vote counted, 58 percent
had voted against requiring
the county to allow “state-
approved licenses, allowing
medical dispensaries, retail
farms and retail sales to
conduct business.”
Wheeler to be
Portland mayor
State Treasurer Ted
Wheeler will be the next
mayor of Portland, clinching
enough votes to avoid
a runoff election in the
November general election.
With 46 percent of the
vote counted, Wheeler was
in the lead at 58 percent
while Multnomah County
Commissioner Jules Bailey
trailed behind in second at
16.2 percent.
Not too far behind Bailey
at almost 10 percent was
Sarah Innarone, the race’s
lesser-known underdog
candidate whose campaign
picked up surprising steam
in recent weeks.
As a nonpartisan race,
one of the candidates needed
at least 50 percent of the
vote to declare a winner and
avoid a runoff
East Oregonian
Page 7A
Lieuallen wins
race for circuit
court judge
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Jon
Lieuallen
of
Pendleton ran away with
the verdict in the race for
circuit court judge.
Early election results
from the Oregon Secretary
of State show Lieuallen
had 67.1 percent of the vote
to 32.7 percent for John
Ballard of Hermiston.
The
6th
Judicial
District has ive judges and
encompasses Umatilla and
Morrow counties. Lieuallen
has 69.7 percent of the vote
in Umatilla County and
54.2 percent in Morrow
County. All results are
unoficial.
Umatilla
County
counted 12,149 ballots in
its irst run, and elections
staff estimated there were
perhaps a couple thousand
more ballots to go. Lieuallen
also took 54 percent of the
Morrow County vote.
Lieuallen was with his
family at the Pendleton
Dairy Queen for some
ice cream after a youth
baseball game. He said he
kept track of some of the
election results and also felt
positive about the outcome.
He estimated he, a couple
of family members and a
few close friends knocked
on 2,000 doors during the
campaign.
Lieuallen
succeeds
Circuit Judge Ron Pahl,
who is retiring this year.
That opened the door to a
race. Ballard campaigned
on
a
tough-on-crime
platform, while Lieuallen
emphasized his community
involvement. Both talked
up their wide-ranging legal
experience.
Lieuallen said he plans
to continue working for
the Milton-Freewater law
irm of Monahan, Grove,
& Tucker, where he is a
partner. The irm donated
$1,000 to Lieuallen’s
campaign, making it his
top donor.
“I think [partner Sam
Tucker] would like to have
me stay around,” Lieuallen
said, “but he also supported
me as well.”
Ballard
gave
his
campaign
$10,500,
according to the state’s
online database of campaign
inance information, and
has outstanding personal
expenditures of $2,258.09.
Lieuallen loaned his $1,300
and has personal expendi-
tures approaching $14,000.
Lieuallen’s top expense
was
almost
$4,400
to
Outwest
Printing,
Milton-Freewater,
for
campaign
post
card
mailers. He also spent
$1,288 at Integrity Design
& Copywork, Walla Walla,
for business cards and post
cards, $1,281 on radio ads
and $1,206 on ads in the
East Oregonian and Herm-
iston Herald.
Ballard spent almost
$7,000 with the East
Oregonian and Hermiston
Herald for print and internet
ads. The EO editorial board
met with both candidates
and endorsed Lieuallen for
the bench.
Ballard and Lieuallen
also sought the circuit court
bench in the past.
Ballard was one of
10 attorneys in 2010 that
applied for two open seats
in the district. Then-Gov.
Ted Kulongoski selected
Eva Temple and Lynn
Hampton
as
judges.
Lieuallen in 2012 ran and
lost against Hampton when
she sought re-election.
Monahan, Grove, & Tucker
gave a $1,000 to that effort
as well, as did Ballard.
Circuit Judge Dan Hill
of Hermiston ran unop-
posed for re-election and
won with 99 percent of the
vote.
———
Contact Phil Wright at
pwright@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0833.
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