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Senate confi rms
Oregon’s fi rst
resiliency offi cer
LOBBYING: Oregon has no campaign contribution limits
Continued from 1A
Lobbying cash spent in Oregon, 2007-15
Last summer, the Sunlight
Foundation evaluated how
all 50 states track spending
on lobbying and created a
scorecard ranking the states.
The foundation awarded
Oregon an F grade, meaning
lobbyists and their clients
face
fewer
disclosure
requirements than in most
other states.
Most of Oregon’s neigh-
bors received higher grades,
from an A in California to a
C in Idaho.
Emily Shaw, a senior
analyst at the Sunlight Foun-
dation who was involved in
the project, said the goal was
to evaluate how much infor-
mation states collected about
lobbyists’ specifi c activities
and the costs of those actions.
“People should be able
to fi nd out who has come to
infl uence their laws,” Shaw
said. “That’s not to say there
needs to be any particular
restriction on lobbying in a
particular situation. But for
good public awareness of
what’s happening in these
processes, we need good
information about what
lobbyists are doing, and
when.”
Pete Quist, research
director at the National
Institute on Money in State
Politics in Montana, agreed
that it is important for
states to require lobbyists
to disclose more about how
they infl uence lawmaking.
The institute is collecting
information about state-level
spending on lobbying across
the nation. “The lobbying
piece isn’t analyzed as much
in the media as it should be,”
Quist said. “What we see a lot
of public discussion about is
the campaign contributions.”
Oregon lobbyists have
resisted efforts to require
them to disclose more details
of their work, most recently in
2015 when they won passage
of a bill that allows them to
avoid reporting spending to
lobby other lobbyists, for
example to build a coalition
for or against an issue. The
2015 bill — which easily
passed both chambers of
the Legislature and was
signed into law by Gov.
Kate Brown — extended
the disclosure exemption
through mid-2017.
Dan Meek, a public
interest attorney and co-chair
$35.9
million
(All sectors, millions of dollars)
33.9
29.8
27.2
A wide range of entities, from
hospitals and nursing homes
to utilities and the governor’s
office, reported spending
more than $251 million on
lobbying Oregon lawmakers
and other state officials from
2007 through 2015. Groups
spend more in odd years,
when the Legislature holds
full-length sessions.
31.1
26.8
25.6
21.2
19.9
Up 31.7%
from 2007
2007
’09
’11
’13
Industry/sector
Total spending
Health
$36.5 million
Misc. business
30.8
Finance, insurance, real estate
27.3
Civil servants/public officials
27.1
Energy, natural resources
23.1
Agribusiness
19.1
Education
18.7
Oregon lobbying
Ideological/single-issue
15.3
Communications/electronics
13.9
cash by industry
Labor
11.3
sector, 2007-15
Transportation
11.2
(Millions of dollars)
Construction
7.3
The health care sector spent the most on
Lawyers and Lobbyists
3.9
lobbying state officials in Oregon over the last
Non-profit institutions
3.5
nine years, according to an analysis of data reported
Clergy, religious organizations 0.9
to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission.
Defense 0.7
NOTE: Totals not adjusted for inflation.
Other 0.6
Sources: Center for Responsive Politics; Oregon Government Ethics Commission
Unknown 0.1
Hillary Borrud and Alan Kenaga/EO Media Group
of the Independent Party of
Oregon, said this exemption
is a major reason the public
cannot fi nd out how lobbyists
use much of the money their
clients report spending. Still,
Meek said he remains more
concerned that Oregon has
no campaign contribution
limits because political
donations do not have to be
reported as gifts, even if they
are connected to lobbying
efforts.
“Lobbying regulation in
Oregon is really of secondary
importance because it can be
so easily evaded,” Meek said.
The extension of the
lobbying reporting exemp-
tion last year provided
another example of how
lobbyists avoid revealing
their impact on Oregon’s
laws.
Lobbyist Marla Rae, who
previously served on the
Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission and worked
for the Oregon Department
of Justice and former Gov.
Ted Kulongoski, advocated
for the bill during legislative
hearings on behalf of the
Capitol Club of Oregon, a
professional organizations
for lobbyists. However, the
Capitol Club did not report
spending any money on
lobbying last year and Rae
does not appear to have
registered to lobby on behalf
of the group.
In an email, Rae explained
the Capitol Club did not have
to report spending any money
on lobbying because she
volunteered her time to advo-
cate for the bill. Rae wrote
that she did not spend enough
time working on the issue
— the threshold is 24 hours
in a quarter — to trigger the
state’s requirement to register
as a lobbyist for the group.
Bill Cross, the Legislative
Committee chair for the
Capitol Club, said the group
still wants a permanent
reporting exemption for
lobbying other lobbyists,
partly because it is burden-
some for lobbyists to track
the information.
“I’m sure we’ll be
pursuing some sort of way
to adjust that because the
value of that information just
doesn’t seem apparent to us,”
Cross said.
Cross said it would also
create a lot of work for lobby-
ists — with minimal benefi t
to the public — if lobbyists
were required to report all the
bills or executive actions they
work to infl uence, because he
sometimes tracks hundreds
of bills during a legislative
session. At the moment,
no one is advocating for
expanded lobbying disclo-
sures in Oregon, Cross said.
“I’m not aware of any issues,
I guess, that have evolved
in the last four or fi ve years
where other organizations
have said, ‘Wait a minute,
we really need to reform our
lobbying disclosure laws
because of problems with
corruption or something,”
Cross said.
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Breezy with some
sun
Breezy with partial
sunshine
70° 46°
66° 43°
SUNDAY
Times of sun and
clouds
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70° 46°
75° 48°
78° 44°
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70° 47°
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through 3 p.m. yesterday
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HIGH
LOW
74°
73°
98° (1928)
48°
49°
30° (1918)
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Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
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1.06"
5.59"
4.42"
6.21"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
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Records
LOW
78°
75°
99° (1928)
52°
49°
33° (1964)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
1.25"
0.90"
4.23"
3.14"
4.92"
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
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June 4
First
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83° 47°
Seattle
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comfortable
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66/45
72/49
Tacoma
Moses
63/47
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 75/47
64/43
58/49
62/46
76/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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70/47 Lewiston
77/48
Astoria
71/50
59/48
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
65/50
Pendleton 64/36
The Dalles 74/48
70/46
68/49
La Grande
Salem
67/42
65/46
Albany
Corvallis 64/45
66/45
John Day
68/40
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
78/48
66/43
64/34
Caldwell
Burns
76/48
67/34
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
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Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a
shower in spots across the north. Partly
sunny in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Times of
clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight.
Partly sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Cloudy today with a
shower in places.
Eastern Washington: Periods of clouds
and sun today. A passing shower in the
mountains tonight.
Cascades: Clouds and occasional sunshine
today. Patchy clouds tonight; a shower in
spots.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
Mainly clear tonight. Clouds giving way to
sun tomorrow.
Today
Friday
WSW 10-20
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WSW 8-16
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nities throughout Oregon,
especially
along
the
state’s coastline. Much of
Oregon’s
infrastructure,
such as hospitals, roads,
and
bridges,
remain
vulnerable to collapse,
according to the 2013
Oregon Seismic Safety
Policy Advisory Commis-
sion Report. Lawmakers
also recently approved
a record amount — $50
million — to reinforce
the state’s schools against
collapse in the event of an
earthquake.
The Legislature created
Harryman’s position in
2015 to develop earthquake
response and recovery plans
for the state.
Harryman is the gover-
nor’s second nominee for
the position. Brown had
to withdraw her previous
nominee for the position
in
February
because
a majority of senators
indicated they would
vote against her choice.
The previous nominee,
Derek Smith, a former
chief executive offi cer of
Clean Energy Works, had
no experience in disaster
response or recovery.
Brown
announced
May 2 that she nominated
Harryman, director of
emergency operations at
the Oregon Public Health
Division, to fi ll the post.
Harryman has a master’s
degree in emergency and
disaster management and
has directed emergency
operations at the Public
Health Division for the past
10 years.
“Mr. Harryman has the
experience and expertise
needed to bring our state
agencies together to ensure
they are well coordinated
as we work toward making
Oregon seismically resil-
ient,” Brown said in a May
25 statement.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
74° 48°
SALEM — The Oregon
Senate on Wednesday unan-
imously confi rmed Gov.
Kate Brown’s nominee for
the state’s fi rst resiliency
offi cer to develop plans
for responding to a major
earthquake.
Michael
Harryman,
former director of emer-
gency operations for Oregon
Health Authority’s Public
Health Division, starts his
new job May 26.
“I am honored that the
governor has nominated me
for this important position,”
Harryman said May 23
during a hearing of the
Senate Committee on Rules
and Executive Appoint-
ments.
Harryman is charged
with “directing, imple-
menting, and coordinating
seismic safety and resil-
ience goal-setting, which
includes working with
state agencies to improve
Oregon’s seismic safety and
resilience,” according to
a statement from Brown’s
offi ce.
One of Harryman’s fi rst
tasks is to participate in the
regional earthquake prepa-
ration exercise, Cascadia
Rising, June 7 to 10. The
event is intended to prepare
the Pacifi c Northwest to
coordinate a response to a
Cascadia Subduction Zone
earthquake and tsunami.
Participants include state
and local agencies from
Oregon, Washington, and
Idaho, along with the Federal
Emergency Management
Agency, military commands
and members of the private
sector.
Geologists and seismic
experts predict major
seismic activity along
the Cascadia faultline
could devastate commu-
2015
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 100° in Pecos, Texas
Low 23° in Bryce Canyon, Utah
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Baltimore
Billings
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Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
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Fairbanks
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Indianapolis
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Las Vegas
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