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Superdelegates choose between Sanders, Clinton Corporate sales tax
East Oregonian
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will be on Nov. ballot
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — After Bernie Sanders
won Oregon’s Democratic primary this
week, two superdelegates announced
they’ll back the Vermont senator and
one declared support for Hillary Clinton,
amid increased discomfort with a system
viewed as undemocratic, even among
some of the superdelegates themselves.
The issue is particularly critical in this
election, because even though Sanders
beat Clinton by nearly 10 percentage
points in the primary, the former secre-
tary of state could still amass most of the
Oregon delegates if a certain number of
the 13 superdelegates, a nickname for
unpledged delegates, swing her way. The
odds of this happening are very remote,
though it is mathematically possible.
“Every Democrat I have talked Io
inds the unpledged delegate system
offensive,” superdelegate Larry Taylor
said in a telephone interview with The
Associated Press. He became a super-
delegate because of his position in the
Democratic party in Oregon, but that
doesn’t mean he agrees with the system.
After Tuesday’s primary results came
in, Taylor announced he would support
Sanders, one of only three superdelegates
to do so, with Sen. Jeff Merkley having
endorsed Sanders before the primary.
Seven have declared they back Clinton.
Three remain undeclared.
“I don’t think my vote ... should inval-
idate the vote of thousands of voters,”
Taylor said. Each delegate vote on the
loor of the Democratic convention in
July will represent about 8,500 Demo-
crats who voted in the Oregon primary,
he noted. He was speaking to AP from
Philadelphia, where he and other party
oficials from Oregon were visiting the
convention facilities.
The breakdown of the Oregon
primary gives Sanders 34 pledged dele-
gates and Clinton 25, with two pledged
delegates still unallocated amid close
returns.
Adding the declared superdelegates
gives Sanders a total of 37 and Clinton
32.
If all three undeclared superdelegates
go for Clinton, the result would be
37-35, a squeaker for Sanders. That is,
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The union-
backed Our Oregon has
surpassed the threshold
for signatures required to
place a corporate sales tax
measure on November’s
ballot.
The campaign has
collected 125,000 signa-
tures and plans to submit
the last batch to the Oregon
secretary of state’s ofice
Friday, May 20, for veri-
ication, said Our Oregon
spokeswoman Katherine
Driessen.
Only 88,184 signatures
are required to place the
measure on the ballot.
“Everyone is pretty
thrilled, and it is a real
showing of support for
our campaign,” Driessen
said. “Our volunteers are
fanning out around the state
and really talking to voters
everywhere and feeling
the goal of the campaign
resonates with Oregon
citizens.”
The next step for the
campaign is to build
support for the measure, she
said. Supporters hope to see
the $5.2 billion in biennial
revenue from the tax go
toward education, health
care and senior services.
Business groups have
strongly
opposed
the
measure, saying the tax will
drive up consumer prices
and erode private sector
jobs.
The Legislative Revenue
Ofice is scheduled to
report on the projected
impacts of the corporate tax
during legislative hearings
Monday, May 23.
The report will examine
the effects on wages,
private and public sector
employment, prices and
other economic indicators.
Often referred to as a
gross receipts tax, the 2.5
percent levy would apply
to certain corporations with
annual sales exceeding
Ryan Kang/The Register-Guard via AP
Bernie Sanders supporters react to poll results during the Oregon primary
election during a rally in Eugene on Tuesday.
if the superdelegates don’t change their
minds, which they are all entitled to do.
U.S. Rep Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon,
is unhappy with this system. DeFazio, a
superdelegate by virtue of his position as
a congressman, is staying out of the fray
for now.
“Generally, I do not weigh in on
contested primaries, and as long as the
race for the Democratic nomination
continues, I have no plans to do other-
wise,” DeFazio said in a statement
Wednesday.
He was blunt about his feelings about
the superdelegate system, implemented
by the Democratic National Committee
before the 1984 election to prevent
candidates with little chance of winning
the presidential election from being
chosen as the party’s nominee.
“I ind the role of superdelegates
undemocratic and they should not be a
part of the nominating system,” DeFazio
said. “Instead, I would prefer to let the
voters determine the results of presiden-
tial primary.”
But superdelegate Karen Packer, who
said she came out for Clinton Tuesday
night at her campaign headquarters in
Portland, makes no bones about her
choice.
“I’ve been a Hillary supporter all
along,” Packer told the AP from Philadel-
phia. “I was an Obama delegate in 2008
and 2012. In my mind its Hillary’s turn.”
She said the system adds value and
aims to unify the party behind the best
candidate.
“We are charged with supporting the
candidate that we feel is best prepared
and best qualiied to win the presidency
in November and run the country,” she
added. “There’s no question in my mind
that she ills that description far better
than her opponent.”
Superdelegate Lupita Maurer came
out for Sanders after his win on Tuesday,
and was delighted to do so.
“I believe I have to represent the
majority of voters in Oregon, and so I
will vote for him at the convention,” she
told AP Wednesday.
Maurer, who has dual US-Mex-
ican citizenship, added: “I am from
Mexico City, and to me he has done an
outstanding job of standing up for the
Latino community.”
However, she is not a fan of the super-
delegate system.
“It’s outdated,” she said. “We should
just get rid of the delegate system
completely.”
BRIEFLY
released Thursday, Bend is
the seventh fastest growing
city in Oregon. The city’s
population as of July was
estimated to be just more
than 87,000.
Millersburg, located
about 20 miles south of
Salem, was the fastest
growing city with a
7.8 percent increase in
population.
Bend’s population
jumps 3.4 percent
BEND (AP) — Bend’s
population jumped about
3.4 percent between 2014
and 2015, making it one of
Oregon’s fastest growing
cities.
The Bulletin reports that
according to a U.S. Census
Bureau population estimate
daycare showed lead
levels four times higher than
the 24-hour benchmark.
The state Department
of Environmental Quality
issued Brown’s order to
Bullseye Glass on Thursday.
The Oregon Department
of Environmental Quality
announced Feb. 3 it
discovered hazardous levels
in the air near Bullseye.
Gov. directs cease
and desist order
to glass company
PORTLAND (AP)
— Gov. Kate Brown has
directed that a Portland
glass company to stop
using several air pollutants,
including lead, after
monitoring at a nearby
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A t-storm in spots
in the p.m.
A shower or
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60° 48°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
Variable cloudiness
A couple of
showers possible
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65° 44°
71° 45°
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LOW
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72°
90° (1929)
47°
48°
31° (2003)
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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0.96"
0.75"
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4.34"
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HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
68°
74°
96° (1954)
50°
48°
30° (2003)
PRECIPITATION
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Month to date
Normal month to date
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0.69"
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Sunrise today
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Moonrise today
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May 29
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June 4
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Seattle
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Enterprise
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Corvallis 65/45
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John Day
54/41
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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63/45
53/39
Caldwell
Burns
61/44
51/36
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Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
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Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
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5:18 a.m.
8:26 p.m.
7:20 p.m.
5:03 a.m.
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Coastal Oregon: A blend of sun and clouds
today. Mostly cloudy tonight; a shower in
the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A couple of
showers and a thunderstorm today.
June 12
Western Washington: Clouds and sun
today; an isolated afternoon shower. Partly
to mostly cloudy tonight.
Eastern Washington: Partial sunshine
today; showers near the Idaho border and in
the mountains.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today with show-
ers, most numerous this afternoon. Snow
level 4,500 feet.
Northern California: Rather cloudy today.
A little snow interior mountains; a spotty
storm in central parts.
Today
Saturday
NNE 4-8
NNW 6-12
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WSW 7-14
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$25 million. The tax
would affect about 1,000
of Oregon’s 30,000 corpo-
rations, said Legislative
Revenue Oficer Paul
Warner.
But business leaders
said the trickle-down effect
of the tax — in the form of
higher prices — will hurt
consumers, employees and
businesses of every size.
“Everywhere you have
a gross receipts tax of
this nature the consensus
among economists is who
pays it is you and me and
small business and families,
and we think that picture
will be painted very vividly
on Monday — that Oregon
families are going to be
paying this $5.2 billion
tax increase,” said Ryan
Deckert, president of the
Oregon Business Associa-
tion.
Gov. Kate Brown and
Speaker of the House
Tina Kotek, D-Portland,
declined to hold a special
session this year to nego-
tiate a more moderate
alternative to the steep tax
increase.
Sen. Mark Hass, D-Bea-
verton, proposed an alter-
native during the February
legislative session, but
his bill never reached the
loor of either legislative
chamber.
“I think after Monday
it will start to get real,”
Hass said of the upcoming
report. “I think there is a
chance for a compromise,
and I think there is an
opportunity for sensible
people to get together to
look at coming up with an
alternative to what is going
to be a very contentious,
divisive campaign.”
Sen. Richard Devlin,
D-Tualatin, said in April
that he is working on alter-
native to the tax measure
but did not return repeated
calls for details from the
Pamplin Media Group/
EO Media Group Capital
Bureau.
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Showers will dot the central Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 101° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 26° in Grants, N.M.
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Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
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Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
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Indianapolis
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Las Vegas
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