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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.
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