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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Friday, October 14, 2016 Key igure in standoff seeks to withdraw plea sentenced in February 2017, the same month his trial starts in Nevada. The desire to withdraw the plea comes as seven of Payne’s co-defendants, including Ammon Bundy, stand trial at the federal courthouse in Port- land. A verdict could come as early as next week. Prosecutors allege the conspiracy began Nov. 5, 2015, when Bundy and Payne met with Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward and warned of civil unrest if he did not shield two local ranchers convicted of setting ires on public lands from having to return to federal prison. After getting no help from Ward, the men led the armed occupation of the bird sanctuary. Besides the breakdown of the Nevada plea negotiations, Federico pointed to new evidence discovered after Payne’s plea, such as the extent to which the government used conidential informants to iniltrate meetings at the refuge. When Payne pleaded guilty, U.S. District Judge Anna Brown repeatedly asked Payne if he was aware of the pros and cons of his decision, and if he believed he was making a rational decision free of outside pressure. Payne insisted he was. But Federico contends it was clear Payne had serious misgivings about the factual basis for his plea and if he was really guilty. By STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND — A military veteran who joined Ammon Bundy at the very beginning of the Oregon standoff case wants to withdraw his guilty plea. Ryan Payne, 33, of Anaconda, Montana, admitted Payne in July that he conspired with others to prevent Interior Department employees from doing their jobs during the 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildire Refuge. In a plea deal that included talks with prosecutors in Nevada, the U.S. attor- ney’s ofice in Oregon recommended that Payne’s likely 3½-year prison sentence run at the same time as the punishment he could receive for his role in a 2014 standoff with federal agents at a Nevada ranch owned by Cliven Bundy. That was expected to be 7-to-12 years in prison. But public defender Rich Federico said in court papers iled Wednesday that the Nevada plea was only in draft format. Talks broke down, he said, and the offer is no longer available. “On the date he entered a guilty plea in Oregon, had Mr. Payne known all the terms of the deal in Nevada, he would not have signed the deal in Oregon,” Federico wrote. The U.S. attorney’s ofice in Oregon objects to Payne’s request to withdraw his plea. Payne is scheduled to be formally BRIEFLY Klamath Basin subject of dispute within federal government Shawna Cox takes witness stand at standoff trial PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon standoff defendant Shawna Cox took the witness stand in her own defense, becoming emotional as jurors watched a video of the trafic stop that ended with the death of occupation spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum. In the video, Cox can be heard telling Finicum to “gun it” as they led from an initial stop Jan. 26. Finicum later crashed into a snowbank and left the vehicle. Oregon State Police shot him as he reached toward the inside of his jacket, where he kept a handgun. Cox testiied Thursday she didn’t get out during the initial trafic stop because she heard gunire and feared getting shot. The Kanab, Utah, woman is one of seven defendants on trial for allegedly conspiring to prevent Interior Department employees from working at the Malheur National Wildlife near Burns, Oregon. SALEM (AP) — A watchdog arm of the U.S. Department of the Interior says the Bureau of Reclamation lacked the authority to enter into an agreement with the Klamath Water and Power Agency on water use, and that consequently $32.2 million spent by the agency over seven years “was a waste of funds.” The department insisted that it did have the authority. The dispute between the inspector general’s ofice and its own department has been referred to the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget for resolution. In its report released this week, the inspector general’s ofice recommended that the Bureau of Reclamation discontinue funding water- supplementation activities in the Klamath Basin unless it has speciic legal authority. The Interior Department noted that the cooperative agreement with the Klamath Water and Power Agency already ended, on May 2. The Klamath Project is a federal dam project in southern Oregon and northern California to manage the lows of the Klamath River. The inspector general’s ofice said parts of the program paid irrigators for idling land and for deepening and drilling wells, and that it largely beneited the irrigators instead of ish and wildlife, the intended benefactors. In its response, the Interior Department said water savings realized through the cooperative agreement “essentially provided the same ish and wildlife beneits as the acquisition of third party water rights.” The reduction in surface “For example, Mr. Payne stated that ‘I have come to understand that folks who were — who work for the govern- ment, that the Constitution ordained, perceived my actions as threatening or intimidating.”’ Pierce donates $250,000 to his campaign for governor his candidacy,” said Nellie deVries, a Pierce campaign spokeswoman. “Bud is focused on laying out a vision on how he can make government better utilize taxpayers’ hard earned money, and it is no surprise our opposition will say or do anything to maintain the status quo.” The couple already had contributed more than $1 million mostly to fund Pierce’s campaign for the primary, which he won against former Oregon Republican Party Chairman Allen Alley May 17. Pierce said at the Oregon News- paper Publishers Association forum in Silverton July 22 that he would rely on larger Republican donors to orchestrate his general election campaign. “Kate Brown will have union backing; that’s for sure, and she’ll have large donors, and I need to be able to do that,” Pierce said July 22. “That is part of being a viable candidate.” Much of Pierce’s $2.5 million in campaign contributions have come from small donors. His largest dona- tions since July 22 were $50,000 apiece on Aug. 8 from Mark J. Burham, a Salem inance executive with Hawthorn By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Twelve weeks after Bud Pierce said he planned to stop self-funding his bid for election to the Governor’s Ofice, the Republican nominee and his wife have poured another $250,000 into his campaign. Pierce, a Salem oncologist, is trying to unseat Gov. Kate Brown Nov. 8 to complete the last two years of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s four-year term. As former secretary of state, Brown inherited the governorship when Kitzhaber stepped down in February 2015 amid an inlu- ence-peddling scandal over contracts awarded to his iancée, Cylvia Hayes. Pierce and his wife, Selma, who both are Salem physicians, each made a $125,000 contribution to Pierce’s campaign Oct. 11. “Bud has run a campaign on ighting to reform and take back government from entrenched special interests, and to that end he has put in personal funds to supplement and amplify the thousands of donors, many of which are small donors, who have invested in Development, and Norman L. Brenden, president of Hawthorn Development Vancouver. Brown has reported about $3.3 million in campaign contributions so far. The Pierces’ $250,000 contribution Tuesday came two days before Pierce was scheduled to debate Brown a fourth time in Medford. Pierce’s campaign has been trying to recover from a controversy over his comment at a debate at the City Club of Portland Sept. 30 suggesting successful women aren’t susceptible to domestic violence. Pierce made the comment minutes after Brown suggested she was a victim of domestic violence. She later clariied that the incident happened when she was a young woman and did not involve her husband, Dan Little. Pierce has repeatedly apologized for the comment. He acknowledged at a debate in Eugene Oct. 6 that his campaign was in crisis over the lap. He said the contro- versy caused him to delay the comple- tion of his proposed state budget, which he inally released Wednesday, Oct. 12. Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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