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Gov. Brown conirms ive debates with Pierce
East Oregonian will sponsor Sept. 24 event in Bend
the Oregon Newspaper Publishers
Association July 22.
“I’m glad the governor now feels
ready to be in front of the people,”
Pierce said in a statement Thursday.
“Throughout the entire campaign,
I’ve told voters that I will attend any
debate at any time and have accepted
every single debate invitation I’ve
received, since I believe debates are
very important.”
In addition to the debates with
Brown, Pierce has accepted three
other debate invitations and “is
anxiously awaiting the governor’s
decision” on those debates, according
to Pierce’s campaign. Those include
a debate sponsored by KDRV in
Medford on Oct. 16.
Pierce also accepted an invitation
for a debate by the Pamplin Media
Group/EO Media Group/Skanner
News Group/KOIN 6 News/Univer-
sity of Oregon Agora Journalism
Center and another debate by KATU,
both of which have dates to be deter-
mined, said Stacey Kafka, Pierce’s
communications director.
Liz Accola Meunier, a spokes-
woman for Brown’s campaign, said
Brown has declined the debate by
Pamplin Media Group/EO Media
Group/Skanner News Group/KOIN
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Gov. Kate Brown announced
details Thursday for ive debates she
plans to participate in this fall.
Her campaign has said the sitting
governor who is seeking election for
the irst time would agreed to at least
three debates. As former secretary
of state, Brown succeeded Gov.
John Kitzhaber when he resigned
in February 2015 amid an inlu-
ence-peddling scandal.
The ive scheduled debates with
GOP nominee Bud Pierce will be
held in Bend, Portland, Eugene and
Medford.
“I’m proud of all that we’ve gotten
done in just a year and a half. And,
there is much more work to do — for
families, for our environment and for
better government,” Brown said in
a statement Thursday. “I’m looking
forward to traveling across our state
and sharing my vision for how we
will move Oregon forward, together.”
Pierce said Thursday he’s glad to
see Brown has increased the number
of debates she’ll accept.
He noted that Brown declined to
join in the traditional irst debate of
general election season sponsored by
6 News/University of Oregon Agora
Journalism Center and is still consid-
ering the other two.
“We’ve received a lot of great
proposals and the governor is eager
to talk about a variety of issues that
matter to Oregonians,” Meunier
said. “Unfortunately, due to sched-
uling constraints, decisions on this
fall’s debate schedule so far have
been made primarily on logistical
grounds.”
The ive conirmed debates
between Brown and Pierce are:
• Sept. 24, Bend. Sponsored by:
The East Oregonian, Society of
Professional Journalists, Jefferson
Public Radio and KTVZ-TV.
• Sept. 30, Portland. Sponsored
by: Portland City Club
• Oct. 6, Eugene. Sponsored by:
League of Women Voters and Oregon
Public Broadcasting.
• Oct. 13 , Medford. Sponsored by:
KOBI-TV and KOTI-TV.
• Oct. 20, Portland. Sponsored by:
KGW-TV and The Oregonian.
Brown’s campaign said proposals
for additional debates, forums or
appearances will be considered on a
case-by-case basis.
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The Capital Bureau is a collabo-
ration between EO Media Group and
Pamplin Media Group.
AP Photo/Ken Ritter, File
In this April 2014 ile photo, Jerry DeLemus, of
Rochester, N.H., sits with a group of self-described
militia members camping on rancher Cliven Bundy’s
ranch near Bunkerville, Nev.
Two in Nevada standoff case
plead guilty in federal court
LAS VEGAS (AP) —
Two defendants became the
irst to plead guilty Thursday
to federal charges in an armed
confrontation with U.S. ofi-
cials over grazing rights near
cattleman and open-range
advocate Cliven Bundy’s
ranch in Nevada.
Gerald “Jerry” DeLemus
and Blaine Cooper each
admitted to conspiring with
others who engaged in a tense
gunpoint standoff with federal
Bureau of Land Management
agents in April 2014 near
Bundy’s property about 80
miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Both told U.S. District
Judge Gloria Navarro they
weren’t physically present for
the standoff.
But they acknowledged
interfering with the execution
of federal court orders by
recruiting and organizing
armed gunmen to support
Bundy and sons Ammon,
Ryan, Mel and Dave Bundy in
efforts to prevent the roundup
of Bundy cattle from the Gold
Butte area.
Their plea deals call for
sentences of six years in
federal prison, although their
defense attorneys can seek
leniency at sentencing Dec.
1. Each also could be ined up
to $500,000 and subject to up
to three years of government
supervision after prison.
Cooper,
37,
from
Humboldt, Arizona, also
pleaded guilty to assault on a
federal oficer.
DeLemus, 61, of Roch-
ester, New Hampshire,
arrived in Nevada hours after
the confrontation started.
His second felony plea was
BRIEFLY
Oregon judge
sides with state in
records dispute
with Oracle
SALEM (AP) — An
Oregon judge has indicated
that she will throw out a
software company’s claims
that the state violated its
public records law by not
immediately releasing
certain emails.
“Oracle contends that
the public records law
permits it to litigate how a
public agency searches for
or maintains documents
and that somehow the
Governor’s ofice’s efforts
fall short,” wrote Judge
Mary Merten James on
Wednesday. “Oracle is
wrong, both on the law and
the facts.”
In an email to The
Drugs and Vice Division
began investigating Aug.
16 when oficers learned
24-year-old Gino Miller
overdosed. He died a few
days later.
Oficers say he took
a counterfeit pill he
thought was the painkiller
OxyContin. Oficers believe
the pills were from China.
Police arrested Antonio
Benjamin, 44, last week on
multiple charges including
manufacturing and delivery
of a counterfeit controlled
substance.
Alfred Warren, 42,
was arrested on charges of
delivery and possession of
Oxycodone.
Oficers seized some
2,000 pills, four guns,
approximately $10,000
in cash, and other drug
traficking items.
Once the investigation
is complete, the case will
be presented for possible
federal prosecution.
This was the 30th drug
overdose death investigated
by the Portland Police
Bureau this year.
Kitzhaber chose not to use
it for political reasons. The
software company also
iled its own litigation,
including the public records
dispute, which arose over
disagreement about which
emails should be disclosed in
the original case’s discovery
process.
The software company’s
attorney wrote an Aug. 16
letter to Judge Courtland
Geyer, urging him to quickly
force the state to hand
over six emails involving
Kitzhaber’s top political
consultants.
Oregonian/Oregon Live, a
spokeswoman for Gov. Kate
Brown called the decision a
“double win.”
“Governor Brown is
fully vindicated, and Oracle
is foiled yet again in its
repeated and desperate
attempts to burden and
harass the state and waste
public resources,” wrote
Kristen Grainger.
Oregon sued Oracle
in 2014, arguing that the
company defrauded the state
by charging $240 million
for a Cover Oregon health
insurance website that didn’t
work. The state accuses
Oracle of fraud, iling false
claims and racketeering,
and is seeking $6 billion in
damages. That trial begins in
January.
Oracle maintains that
the website worked but
that former Gov. John
Two arrested, guns
and drugs seized in
overdose death
PORTLAND (AP) —
Authorities in Portland
have arrested two men in
connection with the overdose
death of a man who police
believe may have taken a
counterfeit OxyContin pill
laced with Fentanyl.
Portland Police said in a
news release Thursday their
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breezy
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patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy
tonight.
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today. Clear tonight; however, mostly cloudy
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Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today; very
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to an interstate extortion
charge, admitting he drove
cross-country with guns with
an intent to display “force
and aggression” to stop the
roundup.
DeLemus,
a
former
U.S. Marine, spent weeks
afterward living in a tent and
organizing armed patrols
near the Bundy ranch outside
Bunkerville.
DeLemus was also polit-
ically active at home in New
Hampshire, where his wife,
Susan DeLemus, is a Repub-
lican state assemblywoman.
He stopped several times
Thursday to confer with his
attorney while entering his
guilty pleas.
Prosecutors characterized
DeLemus and Cooper as
“mid-level organizers” and
leaders of the conspiracy
to prevent federal agents
and contract cowboys from
rounding up Bundy cattle
that federal oficials said were
trespassing on public land.
DeLemus and Cooper
became the irst among 19
defendants to take plea deals
in the case in Las Vegas.
Trial for some of the
remaining 17 defendants is
scheduled to begin Feb. 2 on
charges including threatening
a federal oficer, carrying a
irearm in a crime of violence
and obstruction.
Seven defendants in the
Nevada case, including
Cooper and Bundy’s sons
Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are
also among 26 people charged
in Portland in connection with
a 41-day occupation of the
Malheur refuge earlier this
year.
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few storms will dot the Northeast and the Southwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 26° in West Yellowstone, Mont.
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