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NATION/WORLD Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Trump ignites new tensions in GOP &O/ORA'O SPR,1GS, &oOorado (AP) — As Repub Oican OoyaOists continue to Àee, 'onaOd TruPp ignited new party tensions Tuesday by refusing to endorse House Speaker PauO Ryan or Ari]ona Sen. -ohn 0c&ain, a reParkabOe dispOay of party division Must three Ponths before EOection 'ay. The RepubOican presi dentiaO noPinee toOd The Washington Post he¶s ³Must not Tuite there yet,´ when asked about an endorse Pent of Ryan, who faces a priPary eOection next week. ,n doing so, he echoed the House speaker¶s coPPents of aOPost three Ponths earOier, when the Wisconsin congressPan was initiaOOy reOuctant to ePbrace TruPp as his party’s standard bearer. TruPp’s statePent coPes aPid intense faOOout over his criticisP of the faPiOy of the Oate &apt. HuPayun .han, a U.S. ArPy soOdier who died in ,raT in 200. ,ndeed, Must two weeks after a RepubOican 1ationaO &onvention that tried to focus on party unity, the TruPpdriven rifts inside the GOP appear to be inten sifying. On Tuesday, retiring 1ew York Rep. Richard Hanna becaPe the ¿rst RepubOican PePber of &ongress to say he wiOO vote for 'ePocrat HiOOary &Ointon in 1ovePber instead of TruPp. ³He is un¿t to serve our party and cannot Oead this country,´ Hanna wrote in a coOuPn pubOished in The Post-Standard newspaper of Syracuse, 1ew York. ³He is unrepentant in aOO things.´ /ater Tuesday, HewO ettPackard executive 0eg WhitPan — a proPinent RepubOican fundraiser — threw her support behind &Ointon, saying, ³'onaOd TruPp’s dePagoguery has underPined the fabric of our nationaO character.´ AOso Tuesday, the woPan who heOped shape 1ew -ersey Gov. &hris &hristie’s nationaO iPage decOared that she’s voting for &Ointon. ³As soPeone who has worked to further the Repub Obama says Trump is µun¿t¶ Trump Oican Party’s principOes for the Oast 1 years, , beOieve that we are at a PoPent where siOence isn’t an option,´ forPer &hristie senior aide 0aria &oPeOOa toOd &11. They Moin do]ens of highpro¿Oe GOP Oeaders who have previousOy said they wouOd not vote for TruPp, incOuding the party’s 2012 noPinee, 0itt RoPney, and forPer )Oorida Gov. -eb Bush. A day earOier, SaOOy Bradshaw, an architect of the RepubOican 1ationaO &oPPittee’s 2013 ³Growth and Opportunity´ report, said she’s Oeaving the GOP. WhiOe not a househoOd naPe, her decision to Oeave the party rocked those who Pake poOitics their profession. Bradshaw was one of the ¿ve senior RepubOican strat egists tasked with identifying the party’s shortcoPings and recoPPending ways it couOd win the White House after its Oosing 2012 presidentiaO caPpaign. She said she wiOO vote for the 'ePocratic noPinee if the race in her hoPe state of )Oorida appears cOose coPe EOection 'ay. ³TruPp has Poved in exactOy the opposite direction froP our recoPPendations on how to Pake the party Pore incOusive,´ said Ari )Oeischer, who worked with Bradshaw on the GOP’s socaOOed posteOection autopsy and was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush. )Oeischer stiOO supports TruPp over &Ointon. But Bradshaw and &oPeOOa are aPong a group of top RepubOican opera WASH,1GTO1 (AP) — ,n a searing denouncePent, President Barack ObaPa castigated 'onaOd TruPp as “un¿t´ and “woefuOOy unprepared´ to serve in the White House. He chaOOenged RepubOicans to withdraw their support for their party’s noPinee, decOaring “There has to coPe a point at which you say µenough.´’ WhiOe ObaPa has Oong been criticaO of TruPp, his bOistering condePnation Tuesday was a notabOe escaOation of his invoOvePent in the presidentiaO race. ObaPa questioned whether TruPp wouOd “observe basic decency´ as president, argued he Oacks eOePentary knowOedge about doPestic and internationaO affairs and condePned his disparagePent of an APerican 0usOiP coupOe whose son was kiOOed whiOe serving the U.S. ArPy in ,raq. “,f you are repeatedOy having to say, in very strong terPs, that what he has said is unacceptabOe, why are you stiOO endorsing hiP"´ ObaPa asked during a White House news conference. “What does this say about your party that this is your standardbearer"´ 'ePocratic noPinee HiOOary &Ointon sees GOP concerns about TruPp as an opportunity to reach out to party Poderates — particuOarOy woPen — who Pay be so upset by the noPinee that they’re wiOOing to Oook past poOicy differences and questions about &Ointon’s character. The president — who is enMoying heightened popuOarity in his eighth and ¿naO year in of¿ce — pOans to caPpaign robustOy for &Ointon through EOection 'ay. tives, Pessengers, nationaO coPPittee PePbers and donors who continue to decry TruPp’s tactics, highOighting aOPost daiOy — with fewer than 100 days before the eOection — the ¿ssures created by the biOOionaire and his takeover of the party. Veterans and faPiOies of faOOen soOdiers continue to caOO on TruPp to apoOogi]e for his treatPent of the .han faPiOy, who spoke out against TruPp at Oast week’s 'ePocratic 1ationaO &onvention. TruPp said the grieving father had ³no right´ to critici]e hiP, onOy Oater acknowOedging their son is a hero. ³,f #reaO'onaOdTruPp wants to be the &oPPander in &hief, he needs to act Oike one. And that can’t start untiO he apoOogi]es to the .hans,´ 'akota 0eyer, one of a handfuO of Oiving 0edaO of Honor recipients and forPer AOaska Gov. Sarah PaOin’s soninOaw, wrote Tuesday on Twitter. TruPp invited Pore tension Tuesday when he toOd The Washington Post he’s not ready to endorse Ryan in next week’s RepubOican priPary contest against PauO 1ehOen, praising the underdog for running “a very good caPpaign.´ Tensions were aOready running high between the two highpro¿Oe RepubOicans, who wiOO have to work together cOoseOy shouOd TruPp win the presidency. Said Ryan’s caPpaign spokesPan =ack Roday, “1either Speaker Ryan nor anyone on his teaP has ever asked for 'onaOd TruPp’s endorsePent. And we are con¿dent in a victory next week regardOess.´ ,n the Post interview, TruPp aOso decOined to support 0c&ain’s reeOection and disPissed 1ew HaPp shire Sen. .eOOy Ayotte as weak. Both had been aPong TruPp’s harshest critics in the wake of his coPPents about the .han faPiOy, particuOar 0c&ain, a forPer prisoner of war who said TruPp did not have “unfettered Oicense to defaPe those who are the best aPong us.´ East Oregonian DEPOSIT: WiOO add Pore types of beverage containers in 2018 Continued from 1A “We’re going to take a hit as an industry,´ said -oe GiOOiaP, president of the 1orthwest Grocery Associa tion. “A Oot of containers out there that are worth a nickeO wiOO suddenOy be worth a diPe the next day.´ That’s what happened in 200, when the biOO expanded to incOude bottOed water. That change “didn’t kiOO us, but it was a cost to the systeP,´ GiOOiaP said. The coPPission wiOO hoOd a “ruOePaking hearing´ to go over stakehoOders’ concerns and questions, Scott said. Oregon is one of 10 states with a bottOe biOO. 0ost have stuck with cents, though 0aine and VerPont offer 1 cents for Oiquor bottOes, and &aOifornia gives 10 cents back for bottOes Oarger than 2 ounces. OnOy 0ichigan has a 10 cent deposit, and its return rates consistentOy hover above 90 percent. Oregon wiOO be the ¿rst state to increase an estabOished deposit aPount, said &heriOyn Bertges, an Oregon Beverage RecycOing &ooperative spokeswoPan. The cooperative operates 16 BottOe'rop redePption centers across the state and is pOanning to add four Pore before ApriO. “We do expect there to be an increase in return rates, but how Puch that wiOO be is a good question,´ Bertges said. “We don’t have an exact exaPpOe, so it’s pretty Puch anybody’s guess what wiOO happen.´ Though redePption centers handOe about 0 percent of returns, GiOOiaP said, there aren’t enough of theP to Pitigate the soon tobe increased burden for grocery stores. He estiPates the state needs another 1 centers to absorb what he predicts couOd be a 20 percent uptick in returns at grocery stores. “,t’s going to be tough on the retaiOer because we’re reaOOy Paxed out at the retaiO OeveO in the nuPber of cans we take in today,´ he said, noting that the average Oregon grocery store redeePs ,000 cans and bottOes a day. 'oubOing the deposit is going to increase the nuPber of peopOe who go through neighborhoods to coOOect others’ cans, GiOOiaP said, and it aOso Pay exacerbate fraud. AOready, he said, peopOe froP Washington and ,daho — states without bottOe biOOs — cross the border to redeeP cans they didn’t pay a deposit on. “There’s concern that wouOd go up as weOO,´ he said. “There’s aOways soPeone angOing to Pake a buck.´ Oregon’s historic bottOe deposit systeP wiOO soon see additionaO change. ,n 201, it wiOO be expanded to incOude “aOO beverage containers except distiOOed Oiquor, wine, dairy or pOantbased PiOk, and infant forPuOa.´ That Peans peopOe wiOO be abOe to get 10 cents back for beverages incOuding tea, coffee, hard cider, koPbucha and coconut water. Part of the reason for the return rate’s Àuctuation is the evoOving purchasing power of the nickeO. Though the cost of Oiving has changed over the Oast years, the bottOe deposit hasn’t. ,f it had, Bertges said, the deposit wouOd be now be up to about 30 cents. “ObviousOy we’re not MuPping aOO the way to 30 cents, but this is an effort to Pake up for soPe of that,´ she said. “,t’OO renew that ¿nanciaO incentive a OittOe bit.´ Ben &annon, a forPer Oregon OegisOator who sponsored the biOO, said he hopes the Oaw he heOped put in the books years ago has a positive iPpact. “, wouOd’ve been thriOOed if the redePption rate had increased above 80 percent without the deposit going to the diPe,´ he said. “The point wasn’t to Pake a diPe, it was to increase the nuPber of containers being recycOed.´ BRIEFLY Man charged with murdering 3 at Seattle-area party EVERETT, Wash. (AP) ² ProseFutors haYe ¿Oed three charges of aggravated ¿rstdegree Purder against a 1yearoOd accused of shooting his e[girOfriend and tZo young Pen to death at a Sarty in suEurEan 6eattOe over the weekend. AOOen &. ,vanov aOso faces one charge of attePSted Purder, accusing hiP of shooting and seriousOy wounding an 1yearoOd Pan, and one count of ¿rstdegree assauOt. PoOice say ,vanov adPitted during interviews after his arrest that he coPPitted the shootings at a hoPe in 0ukiOteo earOy Saturday. They say he was uSset that his e[girOfriend, Anna Bui, appeared to be Poving on with her Oife after their recent breakup. The charges were ¿Oed Tuesday in SnohoPish &ounty 'istrict &ourt. Aggravated Purder can bring the death penaOty in Washington, but Gov. -ay ,nsOee has decOared a PoratoriuP on capitaO punishPent. PauO .raPer, the father of the surviving victiP, WiOO .raPer, toOd a news conference at Harborview 0edicaO &enter in SeattOe that he feeOs fortunate his son is stiOO aOive, The Seattle Times reported. His son stiOO has a tube in his chest to drain bOeeding after being shot in the back. Texas professors sue over guns on campus before class begins A8ST,1, Te[as (AP) ² Te[as¶ new Oaw aOOowing conceaOed handguns in coOOege cOassrooPs, buiOdings and dorPs has bareOy started and aOready faces a OegaO chaOOenge seeking to bOock it before students return for the faOO sePester. Three professors at the University of Texas sued -uOy 6 to overturn the Oaw, cOaiPing it is unconstitutionaO and is forcing coOOeges to iPpose ³dangerousOyexperiPentaO gun poOicies.´ The 0,000 student Austin caPpus has been a Àashpoint of opposition to the Oaw aPong facuOty and students. The Oaw took effect 0onday, the 0th anniversary of &harOes WhitPan¶s sniper attack froP the top of the University of Texas caPpus cOock tower, a shooting spree that eventuaOOy cOaiPed 1 Oives and has coPe to be accepted as the nation¶s ¿rst Pass shooting. Texas has aOOowed Oicensed conceaOed handguns in pubOic since 1 but had previousOy Pade coOOege buiOdings off OiPits. The new Oaw Pakes Texas one of eight states with Oaws that aOOow weapons on caPpus and inside buiOdings, according to the 1ationaO &onference of State /egisOatures. Another 23 Oet their caPpuses or governing boards decide. Email fallout: 3 DNC resignations WASH,1GTO1 (AP) — The chief executive of the 'ePocratic 1ationaO &oPPittee and two other top of¿ciaOs have resigned in the wake of an ePaiO hack that ePbarrassed the party on the eve of its presidentiaO noPinating convention. &EO APy 'acey, chief ¿nance of¿cer Brad 0arshaOO and coPPunications director /uis 0iranda Oeft their Mobs on Tuesday, the party said. The resignations are the Oatest faOOout froP the hacked ePaiOs, which exposed an apparent Oack of neutraOity in the priPary race between HiOOary &Ointon and Bernie Sanders, with soPe party of¿ciaOs disparaging Sanders. EarOier, party chairwoPan 'ebbie WasserPan SchuOt] resigned her position. Page 7A WHAT ENERGY SAVINGS AWAIT YOUR HOME? LET’S FIND OUT. 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