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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Cascade Locks
says no to Nestle
water-bottling plant
GOP has uphill battle in Oregon
“(Pierce’s) centrist appeal
will be dificult to sell with
Trump at the top of the ticket.”
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Salem oncologist Bud
Pierce surprised the political
establishment Tuesday when
he captured the Republican
nomination for governor
in a landslide victory over
presumed frontrunner, busi-
nessman Allen Alley.
The political newcomer
now faces an uphill battle
against Democratic Gov.
Kate Brown, a seasoned poli-
tician who is seeking election
to the ofice she inherited
when Gov. John Kitzhaber
resigned last year.
In addition to campaigning
in a state with a Democratic
majority, Pierce, 59, faces
an opposing party eager to
compare him to New York
billionaire Donald Trump,
the
presumptive
GOP
nominee for president, Jim
Moore, politics professor and
director of the Tom McCall
Center for Policy Innovation
at Paciic University.
“People do not know him,
nor are they inclined to vote
for a Republican,” Moore
said. “His centrist appeal will
be dificult to sell with Trump
at the top of the ticket. He
will have to separate himself
from the national campaign
narrative.”
Brown barely campaigned
for the primary yet still won
her party’s nomination
with 84 percent of early
(for governor in 2014), and
Avakian because of the hard
hits he took in the primary.
But, until proven otherwise,
it is extremely hard for
a Republican to win in
Oregon,” Moore said.
Avakian prevailed with 39
percent of early returns over
Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Eugene,
who had 33 percent and
state Sen. Richard Devlin,
D-Tualatin, with 27 percent.
Richardson said Tuesday
night that he was ready to
campaign against Avakian
based on their different
views on the role of the
secretary of state.
“Brad Avakian wants
to investigate and go after
private businesses,” Rich-
ardson said, referring to
Avakian’s plan to have audi-
tors investigate complaints
against state contractors.
“My opinion is the secretary
of state should be rolling out
the red carpet to businesses
in other states and countries,
as well as in Oregon.”
Richardson said the
Audits Division in the
Secretary of State’s Ofice
is supposed to review state
programs in order to “show
that the people’s money is
well spent and (Avakian’s)
approach will be to ignore
the waste that is taking place
in public departments and
programs.
and go after private busi-
nesses.”
— Jim Moore, Politics Professor at Paciic University
returns, against ive mostly
unknown opponents. She
will remained focused on
governing and serving the
state but will ramp up her
campaign every month
leading up to the general
election in November, said
Liz Accola Meunier, a
spokeswoman for Brown’s
campaign.
“The governor is really
looking forward to talking
about her vision for moving
the state forward and looking
forward to having a chance
to talk about her vision, and
we believe when voters get
a chance to compare her to
her opponent that they will
choose her,” Meunier said.
With experience in state
government and as a candi-
date for statewide ofice,
Alley, 61, was the presumed
frontrunner in the race for
the GOP nomination.
But Pierce’s campaign
against
Alley
showed
that higher spending in
both money and time can
pay dividends with the
electorate. Pierce iled for
election six months earlier
than Alley, invested more
than $1 million of his own
money into his campaign
and traveled around the state
to achieve name recognition
that he lacked when he irst
entered the race.
Pierce anticipates he
will need $8 million to $10
million to run an adequate
campaign against Brown.
“The reason I am running
is a lot of us feel the current
state leadership is failing
us,” Pierce said. “The current
state leadership is highly
experienced. The issue isn’t
experience. The issue is the
governor really a motivator
and a leader?”
Democrat Oregon Labor
Commissioner Brad Avakian
and former Republican state
Rep. Dennis Richardson
will face each other in the
November general election
for secretary of state.
“Richardson is running
on a platform that Demo-
crats are corrupt; Avakian is
running on a platform that
the job ought to include a lot
of duties that are not part of
the oficial role of the secre-
tary of state,” Moore said.
“Both are damaged:
Richardson because of his
poor run against Kitzhaber
PORTLAND (AP) —
Voters in an Oregon county
imposed a ban on commer-
cial water bottling on
Tuesday, killing a plan in
which Nestle would have
built a water-bottling plant
in the job-scarce town of
Cascade Locks.
Those who supported
Measure 14-55, which
sought the ban on the
production and transport
of bottled water, had
expressed concern about
water scarcity and losing
the character of the
community.
Town oficials had
wanted the project for the
hundreds of thousands
of dollars in revenue and
jobs it could have brought
to a town with 19 percent
unemployment.
Dave Palais of Nestle
Waters North America,
who had a small ofice in
the town with placards
trumpeting the beneits
the project could have
brought, said the company
is disappointed with the
result.
The proposal had split
Cascade Locks, named
for navigational locks on
the Columbia River that
became mostly submerged
when a dam was built
downriver eight decades
ago, dealing the town an
economic blow. Blue signs
opposing the project and
red ones in favor were
erected in the town of
1,200 that still clings to
existence within sight of
the Bridge of the Gods.
In a statement, Palais
noted that some voters
of Cascade Locks had
spoken out in opposition
to the measure. Some
residents who wanted the
plant built in this rainy
section of the county had
been unhappy that voters
in drought-prone sections
were helping decide the
town’s future.
BRIEFLY
Mount St. Helens
monitoring ongoing 36
years after eruption
MOUNT VERNON, Wash.
(AP) — Thirty-six years after a deadly
volcanic eruption at Mount St. Helens,
the United States Geological Survey is
still closely monitoring the volcano and
others in the state.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports
the USGS monitors volcanoes in
Washington and Oregon’s North
Cascades region through its Cascades
Volcano Observatory and activity
this year has been considered normal.
The agency issues weekly reports on
seismic activity near the volcanoes.
Washington’s ive major volcanoes
are Mount Rainier, Mount Adams,
Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens and
Glacier Peak.
Mount St. Helens erupted on
May 18, 1980, killing 57 people and
eventually sending volcanic ash around
the globe.
According to the geological survey,
more than 130 small earthquakes were
detected beneath Mount St. Helens
between mid-March and early May,
and the rates steadily increased from
March, reaching nearly 40 per week.
A post on the survey’s website on
May 5, says “there are no signs of an
imminent eruption,” and the quakes are
part of common activity at the volcano.
Another recent swarm of
earthquakes at Mount Hood this week
were deemed by the survey to not be
linked to “magmatic processes” but to
pre-existing tectonic fault lines.
“Swarms are not uncommon in the
Mount Hood area, which typically
experiences one or two swarms per
year that last for several days to
weeks,” read a post from earlier this
week.
Portlanders narrowly
approve gas tax
PORTLAND (AP) — Portland
voters approved a temporary 10-cent-
a-gallon tax on gasoline, pumping a
projected $64 million into road repairs
and safety improvements.
The tax that won a narrow victory
Tuesday takes effect later this year and
will expire in late 2020.
Commissioner Steve Novick pushed
for the proposal, saying the money
was desperately needed to ix the city’s
notoriously bad streets.
Opponents said the tax would drive
business away from Portland gas
stations.
They also said money from a tax
that’s paid by motorists should go
entirely toward ixing streets.
Instead, more than 40 percent of the
money will go toward safety projects
for bicyclists and pedestrians.
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Thundershower
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SATURDAY
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Cloudy
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51°
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Sunrise today
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61/43
John Day
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showers, but dry in the south. A passing
shower tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower
today; however, a shower and thunderstorm
around in the upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with showers. A passing shower tonight;
however, dry at the coast.
Eastern Washington: Periods of sun today
with a passing shower, except dry across
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Cascades: Cooler today and tonight with
showers. Snow level as low as 4,500 feet.
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cooler today; a shower in spots in the
interior mountains.
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“While
we
irmly
believe this decision on a
county primary ballot is
not in the best interest of
Cascade Locks, we respect
the democratic process,”
Palais said.
The measure was one
of the hottest disputes
in Oregon’s primary.
The Swiss transnational
company’s plan has drawn
opposition from orchard
owners, Native American
tribes and others.
Farm and orchard
owners said water bottlers
would compete with the
needs of the growing popu-
lation of the town of Hood
River, the county seat, and
its shrinking water supply.
But Gordon Zimmerman,
city manager of Cascade
Locks, said his town has
water to spare. Nestle had
hoped to use 118 million
gallons of spring water per
year by 2020.
The company would
have paid Cascade Locks
an undetermined amount
for the water. The town
would irst have had to
swap well water for spring
water with the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife. The department,
which uses the spring-fed
Little Herman Creek for
its Oxbow Hatchery, had
agreed to trade.
The city was then
going to sell its new share
of spring water to Nestle
for its Arrowhead bottled
water, branded as sourced
from mountain springs.
Studies by the ish and
wildlife department and
one commissioned by
Nestle say hatchery ish
and wild salmon wouldn’t
be affected.
Opponents had also
objected to trucks making
200 trips a day to and
from the plant. And Native
Americans cited global
warming, salmon die-offs
and water conservation.
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National Summary: Showers will develop in New England, while rain lingers in part of the
southern Appalachians today. Showers and storms will drench the Deep South with severe
storms in Texas. Rain will expand in the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 22° in Stonington, Mich.
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