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Friday, June 3, 2016
Navy Blue Angels jet crashes, killing pilot INMATES: Population
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP)
— A Blue Angels F/A-18
ighter jet crashed Thursday
near Nashville, Tennessee,
killing the pilot just days
before a weekend air show
performance, oficials said.
A U.S. oficial said the
pilot was Marine Capt. Jeff
Kuss. The oficial was not
authorized to discuss the
matter publicly and spoke
on condition of anonymity.
According to his oficial
Blue Angels biography,
Kuss joined the elite aero-
batics team in 2014 and
accumulated more than
1,400 light hours.
It was the second ighter
jet crash of the day for
the military’s elite ighter
jet performance teams. A
member of the U.S. Air
Force Thunderbirds crashed
in Colorado after a lyover
for the Air Force Academy
graduation where President
Barack Obama spoke. That
pilot ejected safely into a
Matt Bell/The Register & Bee via AP
This May 19 photo shows Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss at an
air show in Lynchburg, Va. A Blue Angels F/A-18 ight-
er jet crashed Thursday near Nashville, Tenn., killing
the pilot just days before a weekend air show perfor-
mance. A U.S. oficial said the pilot was Kuss.
ield.
Harry Gill, the town
manager in Smyrna just
outside Nashville, said
Thursday that the Blue
Angels pilot was the only
casualty and no civilians on
the ground were hurt.
The Navy said in a news
release that the pilot was
beginning to take off during
an afternoon practice session
when the crash happened.
Five other F/A-18 jets
landed safely moments after
the crash.
“My thoughts and prayers
go out to the family and
friends of the Blue Angels
after this tragic loss. I know
that the Navy and Marine
Corps Team is with me. We
will investigate this accident
fully and do all we can to
prevent similar incidents
in the future,” Adm. John
Richardson, the Navy’s top
oficer, said in a Facebook
post. The team is based at
Naval Air Station Pensacola
in Florida.
The Blue Angels will not
participate in the weekend
air show, the Navy said in a
news release.
The Great Tennessee
Air Show will go on as
scheduled, though, Smyrna
airport Executive Director
John Black said in a news
release.
Kuss was a native of
Durango, Colorado, and was
commissioned as a second
lieutenant in the Marines
in 2006. He had previously
served in Afghanistan before
joining the Blue Angels.
APARTMENTS: Poulson said the inspections are to make
the building safer for all tenants and to root out drug use
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Pendleton
attorney
Will Perkinson handles
landlord-tenant cases. He
said he has never heard of a
landlord or property manager
attempting to use police
dogs for inspections and he
believes that would run afoul
of the law.
Oregon Revised Statute
90.322 guides when a land-
lord or a landlord’s agent can
access premises. Perkinson
said except for emergencies
and under certain agree-
ments between the landlord
and tenant, landlords must
post 24-hour notice before
entering a renter’s personal
space. And threatening to
use police dogs during an
inspection could abuse the
right of access and become
harassment.
He also said tenants can
render that notice to use
dogs toothless. Oregon’s
law allows tenants to deny
consent to enter, even if the
landlord provided 24-hours
notice. Though the law also
states tenants cannot “unrea-
sonably withhold consent
from the landlord to enter.”
In this case, Perkinson
said, tenants at Security
Apartments could tape
notices to their doors denying
the use of police dogs during
inspections.
Police could use dogs to
search common areas, such
as sidewalks, playgrounds
and hallways. But Roberts
icant step for a Republican
Party trying to come together
ahead of a general election
matchup against likely
Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton.
And Ryan made clear
he had Clinton on his mind
when he decided to join the
ranks of Republicans who
have slowly come around
to backing Trump, the brash
billionaire few expected
to emerge as the party’s
nominee when the campaign
began in earnest last year.
“This to me is about saving
the country and preventing
a third progressive, liberal
term, which is what a Clinton
presidency would do,” Ryan
said.
Trump celebrated the
endorsement on his favorite
venue, Twitter.
“So great to have the
endorsement and support of
Paul Ryan,” Trump wrote.
“We will both be working
very hard to Make America
Great Again!”
However, Trump made
no mention of Ryan during a
rally in San Jose, California,
Thursday evening.
There are still some GOP
leaders who say they won’t
support Trump, including
2012 Republican presidential
nominee Mitt Romney, who
tapped Ryan as his running
mate four years ago. A day
earlier, Romney signaled that
he’d support a possible third-
party candidate instead of
the presumptive Republican
nominee.
Ryan himself acknowl-
edged that he continues to
have concerns about Trump’s
combative style, but said after
a series of conversations with
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operating with 110 emer-
gency beds. Its population
hovers just above or below
the threshold on a daily
basis, Peter said. The April
2016 prison population
forecast projects the average
daily women’s population
to exceed 1,300 as early as
June 2017.
The Department of
Corrections could request
another $9.5 million in
September to actually
open the minimum security
annex and accept female
prisoners. The department
also anticipates requesting
another $3.9 million in the
fall to fully staff Deer Ridge
and add another 100 beds,
Peters said.
DOC’s biennial budget
failed to account for the cost
because the state projection
for the inmate population
ballooned in the past year.
The April forecast projects
the prison population to
grow from 14,636 this year
to 15,319 by March 2026.
The Justice Reinvest-
ment Fund was created in
House Bill 3194 in 2013 to
give resources to counties
to set up support services
for offenders on probation
and parole. The bill also
restructured the state’s
sentencing guidelines to try
to ebb the low of offenders
into the prison system.
The Criminal Justice
Commission divvied up
$15 million from the fund
in 2013-14. About $40
million was earmarked for
the fund for 2015-16. The
$9.5 million expansion at
Deer Ridge would come out
of the $40 million amount.
Peters said the Justice
Reinvestment program is
working. Without it, she
said the department would
have needed to build a new
prison at Junction City this
year and opened it next
year.
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The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
TAX: Feelings on IP 28 are
mixed, even among Democrats
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Contributed photo
also said Security Apartments
has a locking front door that
“creates a whole new legal
standard as to where it is a
common area.” He called that
an interesting legal question
and the kind of situation
Pendleton police try to avoid.
Perkinson said property
rights are all about the concept
of privacy, and one tenant
could grant police the right to
search a common area, and at
the same time another tenant
could deny that right. The
question is, who do police
listen to?
The East Oregonian
reached Poulson on the phone
Wednesday. She said the
inspections are to make the
building safer for all tenants
and to root out drug use. She
referred further questions to
management.
Cascade
Management
Inc., Portland, provides prop-
erty management services
to Security Apartments, as
well as several other local
sites, including Cottonwood
Apartments, Quail Ridge,
and Ridgeway Village Apart-
ments, all in Hermiston; St.
Patrick’s Hotel, Heppner;
and Sunset Senior Housing,
Athena. The EO tried to
speak with Tiffany Roderick,
the Cascade Management
spokesperson, and sent her an
email Wednesday afternoon
with the photo of the notice,
but was unable to reach her.
Aside from emergencies,
Oregon law gives landlords no
other rights of access except a
court order, if a tenant leaves
for more than seven days and
without notice, or if a tenant
abandons the property. Rowan
said tenants have the right to
feel secure in their person and
property, and even a lease
agreement allowing police to
search apartments would raise
concerns about due process.
Perkinson said something
similar in an email:
“A dog sniff is a search,
and if the police engage in
a search without probable
cause of criminal activity, that
search is likely an ‘unreason-
able search’ in violation of
constitutional rights. Willful
violation of constitutional
rights can lead to civil
liability, and landlords and
police should always be wary
of actions that could lead to
civil liability,” he said.
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Contact Phil Wright at
pwright@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0833.
TRUMP: Ryan opposes temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.
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projected to grow to
15,319 by March 2026
Trump, he’s conident he and
the House Republicans he
leads as speaker will be able
to work with him as president
on their agenda.
“We obviously have a
different kind of style and
tone. That’s very clear.
Anyone who knows anything
about us knows that,” Ryan
said. “But what really,
ultimately matters is how
best can we make sure these
principles and policies get
enacted in 2017.”
As the GOP’s so-called
“Never Trump” movement
struggled to identify a viable
alternative, many believed
it was only a matter of time
before Ryan fell in line. The
endorsement, he said, was
not the product of any deal
with the billionaire developer,
but a decision based on “an
understanding of our mutu-
ally agreed upon principles.”
Ryan said he speciically
wanted to go over Trump’s
approach to executive power,
judicial appointments and his
position on abortion.
“Those
conversations
took some time,” he said,
adding: “I feel much more
comfortable that he’s in the
same page with us. Most
importantly, it is obvious that
Hillary Clinton is not.”
Ryan ended a weeks-long
standoff with Trump minutes
before the interview by
outlining his support for the
New York billionaire in a
column published online by
The Janesville Gazette.
He had shocked the
political world last month by
refusing to endorse Trump
once the real estate mogul
became the last major Repub-
lican presidential contender
still in the race.
The pair spoke privately
in a series of Washington
meetings last month and their
staffs’ stayed in touch. Ryan
said he made the decision
to formally endorse Trump
earlier in the week.
“I wasn’t just going to
sign up sight unseen without
even having a conversation
or knowing what direc-
tion, because he had only
mentioned a few policies in
the primary,” Ryan said. “I
wanted to basically make
sure that (we agreed) on the
big issues of the day, on really
important principles.”
Major differences remain,
however. And conservative
leaders across the country
continue to have deep reser-
vations about Trump’s devo-
tion to Republican principles
and his temperament.
In particular, Ryan has
embraced major changes
to Medicare and Social
Security as his signature
issue on Capitol Hill. Most
Republicans in Congress
have followed Ryan’s plan to
reduce the cost of the popular
programs that are contrib-
uting to the national debt.
Trump has repeatedly
promised not to touch the
popular programs, echoing
a position more commonly
adopted by Democrats.
The two also break on
immigration. Trump wants
to deport more than 11
million immigrants in the
country illegally in addition
to imposing a temporary ban
on Muslims from entering the
U.S.
Ryan opposes both poli-
cies.
“It’s no secret that he
and I have our differences.
I won’t pretend otherwise,”
Ryan wrote in The Janesville
Gazette column. “And when
I feel the need to, I’ll continue
to speak my mind.”
Ryan’s
announcement
was released as Clinton was
delivering a foreign policy
speech excoriating Trump’s
approach.
Electing Trump, she
said, would be “a historic
mistake.”
it generates would fund
education, health care and
senior services.
But there aren’t any
guarantees.
Lawmakers
can spend the revenue
however they want because
IP 28 would change state
law, not the Oregon Consti-
tution — a structure that
its public union-backers
say they chose to avoid
pigeonholing future budget
decisions.
Education, health and
senior services would
almost certainly beneit
from IP 28. It sends
proceeds to the general
fund, the bulk of which
already funds those areas,
especially
education.
But what portion of the
proceeds — especially with
other funding challenges
facing the state, such as
pensions and transportation
— and how it’d be spent
beyond that is unclear.
Katherine
Driessen,
spokeswoman for Our
Oregon, the union-backed
nonproit behind IP 28, said
Brown’s proposal is a good
irst step that “addresses
education, and we look
forward
to
working
with the governor on an
implementation plan that
addresses health care and
senior services as well.”
Rebecca
Tweed,
campaign
coordinator
for the business-backed
opposition campaign, said
Brown’s proposal doesn’t
address the broader issues
with IP 28 and instead,
“demonstrates that IP 28
includes no strategy and no
accountability for how the
state would spend the $6
billion it would generate.”
“(Brown’s proposal)
demonstrates that
IP 28 includes no
strategy and no ac-
countability for how
the state would
spend the $6 billion
it would generate.”
— Rebecca Tweed,
campaign coordinator
for the business-backed
opposition campaign
Brown also needs the
support of the Legislature,
where feelings on IP 28
are mixed, even among
Democrats.
House Speaker Tina
Kotek, who supports IP
28, was out of town and
unavailable for an inter-
view, but her spokeswoman
Lindsey O’Brien issued
a statement on Kotek’s
behalf.
“If Oregonians approve
the measure in November,
legislators will work with
the governor in 2017 to
make sure it’s implemented
as
voters
intended,”
O’Brien said.
Senate President Peter
Courtney said they’ll tackle
budget and revenue issues
next session, as they do
every year, but he still
opposes
policy-making
through citizen ballots.
“I’m still hopeful that all
the players will get in the
room,” Courtney said in an
interview. “I know time’s
running out, it doesn’t
look very good ... I just
want to avoid the battle. I
admit today it would be a
miracle.”
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