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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Clinton roars against Trump as hacking distraction arises
By LISA LERER
and JONATHAN LEMIRE
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA
—
Fresh off a spirited conven-
tion, Hillary Clinton told
prospective voters Friday
they face a “stark choice” in
November and pressed ahead
with the scalding rhetoric
against her Republican
rival that marked many of
the speeches in Philadel-
phia. Another distraction
arose, however, as her
aides acknowledged that a
hacking attack that exposed
Democratic Party emails
also reached into a computer
system used by her own
campaign.
Rallying in Colorado,
Donald Trump denounced
Clinton’s convention speech
as “full of lies” and said he’s
starting to agree with those
calling for Clinton to be
locked up.
Not long after, the
intrusion into a system used
by the Clinton campaign
came to light, irst reported
by Reuters. The FBI said it
was working to determine
the “accuracy, nature and
scope” of the cyberattacks.
Campaign
spokesman
Nick Merrill said the newly
disclosed breach affected
a Democratic National
Committee data analytics
program used by the
campaign and other organi-
zations.
Merrill said outside
experts found no evidence
that the campaign’s “internal
systems have been compro-
mised” but gave no detail
on the program or nature of
the attacks. President Barack
Obama and cybersecurity
experts have said Russia was
almost certainly responsible
Sanders die-hards return from
convention with mixed feelings
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
greets supporters as she arrives for a rally at McGo-
nigle Hall at Temple University in Philadelphia, Friday.
Clinton and Kaine are beginning a three day bus tour
through the rust belt.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives
a thumbs up as he speaks during a campaign rally, Fri-
day, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
for the DNC hack, and the
House Democratic campaign
committee reported Friday
that its information had been
accessed.
The
developments
followed the leaking of
DNC emails earlier in
the week that pointed to a
pro-Clinton bias by party
oficials during her primary
contest against Bernie
Sanders. In the furor,
party chairwoman Debbie
Wasserman Shultz resigned
just as Democrats were
launching their convention.
Clinton is in the midst of
a post-convention campaign
bus tour through the battle-
ground states of Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
She told supporters in a
West Philadelphia arena the
coming election is the most
important one in her lifetime.
PORTLAND (AP) — During Hillary Clinton’s
nomination speech Thursday night in Philadelphia,
Bernie Sanders delegates from Oregon stood silently
with protest signs and matching yellow glow-in-the-dark
shirts that said ‘Enough is Enough’ with a drawing of a
bird — a nod to the tiny sparrow that landed mid-speech
on the Vermont senator’s podium during his last Portland
rally in March.
The protest was carried out by 800 or so estimated
Sanders die-hards, almost half the size of his entire
delegation, whose neon shirts stood out from the masses
of Clinton supporters that evening, which was the fourth
and inal of the Democratic National Convention and
kick-off to general election campaign season.
For Clinton supporters, it was another aggravating
show of disrespect for their nominee, who won both the
popular and delegate votes during the primaries, at a time
when the party is trying to unite ahead of November to
defeat Republican Donald Trump.
For Sanders supporters, it was about feelings of being
cheated out of a fair process by the DNC — a bias against
Sanders that was conirmed in leaked emails just a week
ago and led to DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s
resignation — and the way they were treated by oficials
in Philadelphia.
“They did not offer us unity, they demanded unity,”
said Melissa Pancurak, 40, a Sanders whip from Portland
who’s also an ex-Marine and survivor of the 2012 Clack-
amas Town Center shooting. “We’ve been gaslighted the
entire time and it made us look crazy in the media.”
Oregon was among several Sanders states driving
protests, walkouts and other disruptions all week along
with Washington state, California and Nevada, among
others. The Vermont senator won 57 percent of the vote
during Oregon’s May primary, claiming him more than
half of the state’s 61 delegates at the convention.
“It’s not so much that I’m
on the ticket, it’s because of
the stark choice that’s posed
to Americans in this elec-
tion,” she said.
In Colorado Springs,
Trump at times seemed to
brush off the ierce conven-
tion-week Democratic criti-
cism, which went so far as to
question his sanity. Sounding
more like a pundit than the
subject of all the vitriol,
he pronounced her speech
“so average” and “full of
cliches.” But he grew harsher
as his event went on.
“Remember this,” he said,
“Trump is going to be no
more Mr. Nice Guy.” And for
the irst time he encouraged
his crowd’s anti-Clinton
chants of “lock her up.”
“I’ve been saying let’s just
beat her on Nov. 8,” he said,
“but you know what? I’m
starting to agree with you.”
Polls ind that most Amer-
icans question Clinton’s
honesty. But in her conven-
tion speech and her irst
events afterward, her priority
was to go after Trump, not
ask for trust.
Joined on the bus tour by
her husband, Bill Clinton,
running mate Tim Kaine
and his wife, Anne Holton,
Clinton stopped at a toy
and plastics manufacturer
in Hatield, Pennsylvania,
where she and Kaine cast
Trump as a con artist out for
his own gain.
“We don’t resent success
in America but we do resent
people who take advantage
of others in order to line their
own pockets,” said Clinton,
addressing local oficials and
employees on the factory
loor.
Trump is also focusing on
Ohio and Pennsylvania, as
states where he might make
headway with blue-collar
white men. That group of
voters has eluded Clinton and
was perhaps a hard sell after
a Democratic convention that
heavily celebrated racial and
gender diversity.
Clinton is playing up
economic opportunity, diver-
sity and national security.
Democrats hammered home
those themes this week with
an array of politicians, celeb-
rities, gun-violence victims,
law enforcement oficers
and activists of all races and
sexual orientation.
Their goal is to turn out
the coalition of minority,
female and young voters that
twice elected Barack Obama
while offsetting expected
losses among the white men
drawn to Trump’s message.
Mosquitoes spreading Zika virus for irst time in U.S.
MIAMI (AP) — Mosqui-
toes have apparently begun
spreading the Zika virus on
the U.S. mainland for the
irst time, health oficials
said Friday, a long-feared
turn in the epidemic that is
sweeping Latin America and
the Caribbean.
Four recently infected
people in the Miami area
— one woman and three
men — are believed to have
contracted the virus locally
through mosquito bites,
Gov. Rick Scott said.
No mosquitoes in Florida
have actually been found to
be carrying Zika, despite the
testing of 19,000 by the state
lab. But other methods of
Zika transmission, such as
travel to a stricken country
or sex with an infected
person, have been ruled out.
“Zika is now here,”
said Dr. Thomas Frieden,
director of the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Still, U.S. health oficials
said they do not expect
widespread outbreaks in
this country like those seen
in Brazil, in part because
of better sanitation, better
mosquito control and wider
use of window screens and
air conditioners.
The virus has triggered
alarm across the Western
Hemisphere’s warmer lati-
tudes. While most people
who get Zika don’t even
know they are sick, infec-
tion during pregnancy can
cause severe brain-related
birth defects, including
disastrously small heads.
More than 1,650 people
in the mainland U.S. have
been infected with Zika
in recent months, nearly
all while traveling abroad.
The four people in Florida
are believed to be irst to
contract the virus from
mosquitoes within the 50
states.
“This is not just a Florida
issue. It’s a national issue —
we just happen to be at the
forefront,” Scott said.
Florida
agricultural
oficials
immediately
announced more aggressive
mosquito-control
efforts,
and Florida politicians
rushed to assure tourists it’s
still safe to visit the state.
Some medical experts
said
pregnant
women
should not travel to the
Miami area, especially if
the visit involves spending
time outdoors. The CDC
is not issuing such advice,
however.
Health oficials said the
U.S. might see small clusters
of infections. But “we don’t
expect widespread trans-
mission in the continental
United States,” the CDC’s
Frieden said.
The four Florida infec-
tions are thought to have
occurred in a small area just
north of downtown Miami,
in the Wynwood arts district,
the governor said.
The area, known for bold
murals spray-painted across
warehouses, art galleries,
restaurants and boutiques,
is rapidly gentrifying and
has a number of construc-
tion sites where standing
water can collect and serve
as a breeding ground for
mosquitoes.
People
in
Florida’s
LACEY: Originally set his sights on the
Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs
Continued from 1A
Lacey to pursue a career in
astronautical engineering at
NASA, seeking to become
a literal rocket scientist, but
now he’s ready to go to the
other side of the country to
pursue it.
Lacey has been fascinated
with space and light since
he was a kid in elementary
school.
As a student at McKay
Creek Elementary School,
Lacey and a friend did a
presentation as the Wright
Brothers and the invention
of modern aviation (he was
Wilbur) and was especially
taken with the books on space
he read as a child.
“I just remember seeing
the pictures of the nebula and
the sun and stuff like that,”
he said. “(More) speciically,
just the scale of it all. Nothing
compares.”
Lacey originally set
his sights on the Air Force
Academy
in
Colorado
Springs, Colorado to jump
start a career in aviation.
Shepherding him through
the process was Debbie
McBee, a member of the
Pendleton School Board and
a volunteer with the ASPIRE
program.
McBee was familiar in
how to get kids into a service
academy — one of her sons
is a U.S. Military Academy
graduate and she’s an Oregon
admissions representative for
West Point.
She encouraged Lacey to
take the top classes PHS had
to offer and seek leadership
positions in his extracur-
ricular activity, but also to
develop a list of back-up
options.
McBee also knew Lacey
since he was four years old.
“He just goes in and does
stuff, but he’s quiet about it,”
she said.
McBee’s advice ended up
being fortuitous when Lacey
honed in on becoming an
astronautical engineer with
NASA, a development that
caused him to take a harder
look at civilian universities.
Embry-Riddle Aeronau-
tical University in Daytona
Beach, Florida checked a lot
of his boxes, especially its
proximity to the Kennedy
Space Center in nearby Cape
Canaveral
With Lacey set to leave
town Aug. 23 and school
starting Aug. 28, he’s wiling
away his last days in Pend-
leton by taking a trip to the
Three Sisters Wilderness
working as an assistant at the
Columbia Basin Agriculture
Research Center.
It’s not rocket science, but
that’s coming soon enough.
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Contact Antonio Sierra
at asierra@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0836.
Miami-Dade and Broward
counties are being tested to
learn whether there are more
cases, the governor said.
“If I were a pregnant
woman right now, I would
go on the assumption that
there’s mosquito transmis-
sion all over the Miami
area,” warned Dr. Peter
Hotez, a tropical medicine
expert at the Baylor College
of Medicine in Texas.
He said that there are
probably more cases that
have not been diagnosed,
and that people should not be
surprised if mosquitoes are
soon found to be spreading
Zika in Louisiana and Texas
as well.
In loving memory of
Jason Anteau
November 23, 1971 ~ July 24, 2015
Our family would like to express our deepest appreciation and
gratitude to EVERYONE who offered their overwhelming kindness,
support, comfort, sympathy, food, flowers, donations to Jason’s children’s
college fund, and time and donations for his Celebration of Life and
gathering.
We especially wish to thank
Hermiston Fire and Emergency
Services, Chief Scott Stanton
and Fire Marshal Tom Bohm,
Hermiston
Fire
Volunteer
Association and Tamie Norris,
Hermiston Police Department,
Hermiston Police Association
and Captain Darryl Johnson,
Iron Order Motorcycle Club to
include the local chapter, Bill “Redneck” Horn, and multiple other
chapters from various locations, Stanfield Fire Department, Chief Whelan,
and Eldon Marcum, Umatilla Fire Department, Pendleton Fire
Department, Umatilla Tribal Fire Department, Boardman Fire
Department, Portland Fire Department, Vernonia Fire Department,
Pendleton Police Department, Stanfield Police Department, Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office, Hermiston School District and Mike Kay,
Hermiston High School Dance Team,
coaches, and dance moms, Keli
Espinoza, Umatilla County Fair, Peggy
Anderson and Lucas Wagner, Farm City
Pro Rodeo Directors, Chaplain Jim
Tanner, Chaplain Terry Cummings,
Burns Mortuary and Ken Huber,
Oregon Department of Transportation,
Correctional Police Officers Foundation,
Donnie, Karie, Skip and Sherry Walchli,
Mark McLeod Memorial Fund,
Northwest Intercollegiate Rodeo, Two Rivers Correctional Institution
Management Team, Ashley Siebel Photography, Hermiston Classic Car
Club, Oregon Trail Fire Training Association, Walmart Distribution
Center, The Cottage, Bend Fire Pipes & Drums, Oregon Fire Service
Honor Guard, Hodgen Distribution, all those who donated food and other
items for the gathering at the rodeo grounds, and Eric Folkestad, Brandon
Packman and everyone who supported Pendleton Bike Week 2016. To
any person, business, or organization we may have overlooked, please
know we will be forever grateful.
Jason would have been beyond words and so very humbled by the
outpouring of love and support for his family. Words can never express
what is in our hearts to relay our love, appreciation, and thankfulness for
each and every person during this most difficult time.
Sincerely,
Angie, Trenten, Alex, David,
Lynda, Kristen &
extended family members