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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.
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TUESDAY
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Oct 22
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WINDS
Medford
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today and
tonight; a thunderstorm in spots. Rain and
damaging winds tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Windy today
with clouds and areas of sunshine; a couple
of showers around.
Western Washington: Some rain today and
tonight; a thunderstorm in spots. Winds
becoming strong tomorrow; rain.
Eastern Washington: Clouds and some
sunshine today with a gusty wind and
isolated showers.
Cascades: Occasional rain today; snow level
mostly near 6,000 feet. A couple of showers
tonight.
Northern California: Clouds and limited
sunshine today with some showers; windy
across the mountains.
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SPRINGFIELD (AP)
— An Oregon neo-Nazi
has pleaded no contest to
a charge stemming from
his decision to counter an
anti-hate rally by installing a
large speaker on his house’s
roof and repeatedly playing a
pro-hate message.
Jimmy Marr, 63, of
Springield entered the plea
at his initial court appearance,
The Register-Guard reported.
He reached a deal with
prosecutors shortly before
Wednesday’s hearing,
allowing him to get the
charge of disorderly conduct
dismissed if he doesn’t break
any laws for six months.
Marr was arrested Sept.
29 as a community group
held an anti-hate rally in a
park near his home.
Police said Marr began to
blast a pro-hate message that
could be heard for blocks.
Marr agreed to Arnold’s
offer of free, legal assistance
after the lawyer said he
believed that Marr had been
charged based on the content
of the recording.
Arnold also said he
believed police improperly
went onto Marr’s roof
without a search warrant.
But a ight over free speech
and illegal searches never
materialized.
Marr has attracted
attention for years as a white
supremacist and Holocaust
denier.
He arrived at the
courthouse in a pickup
emblazoned with a swastika
and anti-Semitic messages.
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water demand through
land idling and wells, the
department argued, increased
“the water available in
Upper Klamath Lake and
Clear Lake Reservoir to
meet requirements for the
endangered short-nose and
Lost River suckers and in
the Klamath River for the
endangered coho salmon.”
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Mississippi Valley today. The first in a series of major storms will push locally heavy rain and
high winds inland over the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 98° in Edinburg, Texas
Low 0° in Rudyard, Mont.
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