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Oregon Republicans optimistic Anti-abortion measure supporters
about party’s prospects
can start seeking signatures
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Apparently
buoyed by the victory of
President Donald J. Trump
and Oregon Secretary of
State Dennis Richardson,
Oregon
Republicans
convening here Friday and
Saturday were optimistic
about opportunities for the
GOP in the Beaver State.
Richardson’s
election
secured the party’s first
statewide elected office since
2002, resulting in something
of a victory lap vibe at the
annual Dorchester Confer-
ence.
While Republicans lead a
solid majority of state legis-
latures, Oregon is one of 12
states where Democrats are
in charge in both chambers,
compared to 32 states where
Republicans have control of
both chambers.
Senate Minority Leader
Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day,
noted in remarks Friday
night that one Oregon
Senate seat flipped in the last
election from Democrat to
Republican.
Sen.
Alan
DeBoer,
R-Ashland, won a special
election to finish the last two
years of the term of the late
Sen. Alan Bates, D-Medford,
who died in August. DeBoer
won the race by just under
400 votes, according to the
Oregon Secretary of State’s
Office.
Salem physician Bud
Pierce, the 2016 Republican
gubernatorial candidate who
lost to Democratic Gov. Kate
Brown, said he was feeling
optimistic about the future
of the Republican party in
Oregon.
Pierce, who is on the
board of directors of
Oregon’s League of Minority
Voters, moderated a panel
of speakers, that included
Promise King, executive
director of the league, about
including people of color in
state politics and campaigns.
Asked by a reporter
whether he sees a conflict
between his party’s aim to
include minority groups
and the rhetoric of President
Trump — who has been
prone to making gross gener-
SALEM — Petitioners
were granted permission last
month to gather signatures
to put a measure restricting
state funding for abortions on
the ballot in November 2018.
The effort, Initiative
Petition 1, would amend
the state’s constitution to
prohibit spending public
funds for abortions, with
certain exceptions, according
to the Oregon Secretary of
State’s Office.
As written, the petition
would allow public funds to
be spent in circumstances
where federal law requires
states to provide funding
for the procedure or when
the procedure is “medically
necessary.”
Abortions and vasec-
tomies are excluded from
coverage required under the
Claire Withycombe/Capital Bureau
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden poses for a photo at the
Dorchester Conference Saturday with Promise King,
executive director of the Oregon League of Minority
Voters. Republicans attending the annual political con-
ference were optimistic about the party’s chances to
expand its fortunes in the Beaver State.
alizations about minority
groups, including immigrants
from Mexico — Pierce said
he was waiting to see what
action the president takes.
“Let’s see if he can give
a legal status to 11 million
people,” Pierce said. Pressed
about the likelihood of such
a reversal by the president,
Pierce said: “Well see, you
know, it was unlikely that
Nixon would go to China.”
Pierce points to the state’s
lack of affordable housing as
one example of what he calls
the “failures” of the Demo-
crats’ policies in Oregon
that he believes could attract
more voters to the right.
The
Legislature
is
debating proposals to ban
rent hikes and no-cause evic-
tions, and many Republicans
at the conference advocated
instead for loosening up the
state’s land use restrictions
to encourage more develop-
ment and housing supply.
Pierce said he believes
Republicans may benefit
from the growing number of
voters in the state who are not
affiliated with any political
party.
Many new voters have
been registered recently
through the state’s new
automatic voter registration
law, which registers voters
as unaffiliated unless they
designates a political party.
“Can we become the
natural place for the unaffil-
iated votes?” Pierce asked.
“Maybe they won’t call
themselves Republicans, but
maybe they’ll do it.”
State Rep. Greg Barreto,
R-Cove, referencing rela-
tively recent political shifts
in Michigan and Wisconsin,
told conference attendees
he believes Oregon could
become a red state.
“I think there’s a lot of
hope in Oregon,” Barreto
said. “But a lot of these other
states, they didn’t just change
from blue to red accidentally,
there was some pain that
went on.”
Barreto
referred
to
economic woes in those
states and continued:
“If we’re not careful in
Oregon, there’s going to be
some pain in Oregon, when
we talk about PERS, when
we talk about Medicaid,
when we talk about bills that
we can’t afford to pay right
now, we will feel some pain.”
U.S. Rep Greg Walden,
R-Hood River, Ore., called
on Republicans to stay
involved.
“You need to fight back,”
Walden said, when asked by
an attendee if conservative
groups were organizing to
attend town halls. “If you
believe in why we run, if you
believe in the policies we’re
trying to implement, you
have to help us fight back,
you have to be there shoul-
der-to-shoulder with us.”
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — After years of
disagreement, both Oregon
law
enforcement
and
civil rights leaders voiced
support Monday, March 6,
for a bill that would require
police to record data on race
during traffic stops.
The legislation, proposed
by Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum, is aimed at
addressing racial profiling
by law enforcement.
“The legitimacy of our
law enforcement depends
on public perception, and
there is no accountability
mechanism better than
sunshine,” Rosenblum testi-
fied during a hearing in the
House Judiciary Committee.
“The experience of other
states suggests that law
enforcement is often quick
to change their policies
when confronted with data
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agencies already collect
such data voluntarily. Since
2000, Oregon State Police
has been recording data on
race, gender, age, reason for
contact, citation, warning or
search type.
“OSP does believe data
collection has value in terms
of guiding good policing
policy and a critical founda-
tion for discussions relating
to policing concerns,” said
OSP Superintendent Travis
Hampton. “Before we have
the conversation, I think we
do need the data.”
OSP data shows that 2.1
percent of trooper contacts
were with people identified
as black, which is propor-
tionate with the population.
But in Multnomah County,
court records show that
blacks are 10 times more
likely to be charged with
a
drug-related
crime,
according to a Portland
Tribune report.
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suggesting disparate impact
on diverse communities.”
The legislation also
expands mandatory bias
training for police officers
and downgrades certain
drug possession crimes from
felonies to misdemeanors
— crimes for which people
of color are disproportion-
ately prosecuted.
Law enforcement offi-
cers would be required to
record the race of the person
stopped and when a citation
or warning is issued, a search
is conducted or a person is
arrested. The Oregon Crim-
inal Justice Commission
would analyze the data for
any enforcement disparities
and publish any trends in
an annual report. Finally,
the information would be
distributed at a public forum
in the law enforcement
agency’s county of jurisdic-
tion.
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submitted to the Secretary
of State’s Office, argue that
Oregonians who oppose
abortion should not be obli-
gated to fund the procedure
through taxes.
Mary Nolan, execu-
tive director of Planned
Parenthood Advocates of
Oregon, said in a statement
that limitations on abortion
would negatively affect
low-income women, immi-
grants, young women and
women of color in the state.
“When a woman is living
paycheck to paycheck,
denying coverage can push
her deeper into poverty,”
Nolan said.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
Affordable Care Act, the
federal health care law that
is under threat of repeal in
Congress.
A group of Democratic
lawmakers in the Oregon
House of Representatives
this session is sponsoring
legislation — called the
Reproductive Health Equity
Act — that would require
health plans, except for
those that are offered by
religious employers, to cover
abortions and vasectomies. It
would also maintain no-cost
birth control in the state.
The
petition
was
approved for circulation
Feb. 24. The petition needs
117,578 signatures to get on
the ballot next year.
Similar petitions were
filed in 2012, 2014 and
2016, but failed each time to
qualify for the ballot.
Supporters of the initia-
tive petition, in comments
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